Flower

Mrs. Brown down the street often leaves plants and bulbs out at the end of her driveway for fellow gardeners to share. One year she had bulbs and I took them. We planted them along our retaining wall and waited. The next spring these slender green shoots came up. Kind of reminded me of irises. And then these buds appeared. I consider them to be the most exotic thing in my yard. They are called crocosmia. The ones from Mrs. Brown were the orange ones. She told me some day she would thin the lucifer ones which are red. Well if she did, I never got any bulbs. So I bought a few at a plant sale and now have both colors. Hummingbirds like them.