Crocosmia flowers are brightly colored deciduous or evergreen perennials from the iris family (Iridaceae). Interestingly, these plants have tough, lance-shaped leaves that are unpalatable to ...
I want the flowers to return next year. — W.T., Enumclaw A. Yes, you can remove the seed pods from your crocosmia plants now or you can ignore them and cut the plants to the ground in the spring.
If you’re looking for a way to get rid of your freshly raked leaves without having to bag them up or wait for the city’s leaf collection service to come by, you might be considering burning them.
Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...