Montbretia

Well, they may not be corms, but for some reason I think of them as corms rather than bulbs. they're more like little rocks though

I was not planning to tackle the corms - indeed did not know they had them! - but just wanted to reduce the size of the forest!

We have 3 smaller ones at the front of the house that are a pale orange - now those are great!

I also like the back garden monsters, but would now like to get them under control!

We have 2 different kinds; one is smaller with lighter orange flowers and is quite controllable, and the other is a monster which requires a pickaxe to get rid of the corms!

If it's finished flowering, just hack it right back.
I've got lots of it mostly growing in clumps on the sloping areas and along the ditch between the trees. I'm hoping to get some more from my neighbour to add to ours as she's got a beautiful red variety whereas ours is the ordinary bright orange variety. Ours is still flowering madly and I don't expect it to die back until later next month.
It grows wild along the roadside here in west cork along with the fuschia hedges.

I bin the ones I dig out , wouldn't inflict them on anyone !.... they would be ok in a pot for a while if you do want to keep them for giving away

They are called crocosmia now ( for some reason) but I still call them montbretia.They are best planted on a bank or small slope but if you grow them on level ground they will always flop over and go towards the sun.So, better planted on a slight incline and in semi shade.Break up the clumps now and then to let in light and air, and feed in Spring for more flowers.

Hoick our any montbretia that have finished flowering - it does them good.

We use those supports - we call them zimmer frames for plants. They are a bugger to store - bit like wire coathangers!!

They're the ones I use, shysal

DH made me some after seeing Monty's demo but the cost of the steel meant that they weren't really much cheaper than some I found on e-Bay.

Thanks for that info Aggie mine were all in a thick clump so I ve dug some up now do I need to transplant immediately or treat like bulbs and put in later I was going to give some away and wondered if they lasted out the ground I m presuming it's like bulbs and they are fine out the ground until ready to re plant do you know ?

Mine has flowered poorly this year. DH is very disappointed. He keeps pointing out lovely flowering specimens in other people's gardens and grumping about ours! I like them, but don't like the way they are so invasive.

I have pulled up two large bin bags of these this week. I am sure they will come back next year though!

I have a supply of this type of support with which to lift up flopping plants. There are lots on Ebay but they are not cheap. I remember seeing something similar and cheaper in Wilko. I saw Monty making some once on GW.

I manage to kill it on a regular basis I have bought a plant every year for the past 4 or 5 (given up this year) and it never flourishes. We are on chalk so I guess that is the reason

if it is too thick and impenetrable it won't flower , dig lumps out and it will take off , impossible to kill it

I have loads but not all of it flowers I have some clumps that only have one or two flowers and then others that have lots of stems, any ideas why one big clump has not a single stem in sight ?

I don't think it's possible to kill this plant off! I have LOTS in my back garden and as Aggie says useful for filling up gaps. I once pulled out all but a very few bulbs but it filled up the garden again in no time. I heave chunks of it out by the roots constantly and it just seems to fill the space up again.

I doubt you'll kill it, luckygirl as it's as tough as old boots. I use those hooped plant supports - the tall ones are best - to prevent it flopping all over the lawn.

I would cut back as much as needed and leave the rest to die back naturally.

I have a few plants that droop over the lawn I get some short canes lift up the offending plants leaves and push the canes in the ground at an angle using several crisscross fashion. It keeps the leaves off the ground.

We have had flowers galore - it has been beautiful - but simply refuses to stand up and flops all over the lawn.

I really want to cut this clump back so we can mow the lawn but do not know whether it will deal it a death blow!

We have quite a large clump of this, but only one flower stem and masses of droopy leaves. I think it's got to go, although I love it when it behaves

we hauled it out ,used a garden fork and took out as many of the wee bulbs as we could .It spreads like wildfire . I quite like it when it is needed to fill a difficult area