It's the wife, thanks for your help but I don't recognise any of the
pictures. I will keep looking.I can't remember when I saw it in flower.


On 16/01/2010 18:46, Spider wrote:
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Here a real challange for all you gardners
My wife is looking for a plant she has seen in someones garden a while ago
back, and can't remember where she saw it.

Anyway the plant had long thin green leaves (about 2-3 foot long)with
tiny red flowers on the end of a stalk which stuck out slighty above the
leaves

Any Ideas??? spend most of today surfing google for plants like it, but
with no luck

Any ideas


It would help if she could pin down the time of year, so we can consider the
flowering season. As the others have said, possibly Crocosmia 'Lucifer' (or
similar cultivar), or . I 'Major'. The Crocosmias are
generally late summer flowering. Schizostylus is autumn flowering. Dierama
is a possibility, but I don't know of one with red flowers; they tend to be
pinks and purples.

Do google on both the above and, if it's not one of these, ask your wife if
she can describe how 'hers' were different. We will then keep thinking.

Spider