I have a grass plant in my garden which flowers each summer with a red/orange flower does anyone know the name

also it seems to multiply each year

I have a grass plant in my garden which flowers each summer with a red/orange flower does anyone know the name
Can you give more details please, height and spread would be useful.



You say it multiplies each year, do you mean that it seeds itself around the garden or just increases itself by bulking up?



OK then there are loads of different things that it could be but at that height it is unlikely to be a Miscanthus. It could come from the Pennisetum group, sorry I can't help much more.



Good luck with finding out.
Reply:Check out these images. If this is it then it is a Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia caulescens).



http://www.english-country-garden.com/a/...



http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/ima...
Reply:if it grows from small bulbs that look like crocus corms it is crocrosmia
Reply:wonder if it is a type of daisy
Reply:without a picture it will be difficult.



following your description I have something similar and I believe it is a Crocosmia.



we bought our house last year and don't know what half the flowering shrubs are. To work out what they are I look around the garden centres when I'm there and try and 'spot' our plants so I can identify them!







Crocosmia is a small genus of perennial species in the iris family Iridaceae, native to grasslands in the Cape region (South Africa).



They are commonly known in the United States as coppertips or falling stars, and in Britain as montbretia. Other names, for hybrids and cultivars, include antholyza, and curtonus.



They are now grown worldwide, and more than 400 cultivars have been produced. Some hybrids have become invasive species.



The name is derived from the Greek words krokos (saffron) and osme (smell), referring to the saffron-like scent, when dried flowers are dipped in water.



They are evergreen or deciduous perennial herbs, that grow from basal underground corms. The basal, alternate leaves are cauline (meaning, belonging to the stem) and distichous (meaning, growing in two vertical ranks). The leaves are linear or lanceolate. The blades are parallel-veined. The margin is entire.



They have colourful inflorescences of 4 to 20 vivid red and orange subopposite flowers on a divaricately branched stem. The terminal inflorescence can have the form of a cyme or a raceme. These flower from early summer well into fall. The flowers are sessile on a flexuose arched spike. The fertile flowers are hermaphroditic. All stamens have an equal length. The style branches are apically forked. They are pollinated by insects, birds (hummingbirds) or by the wind. The dehiscent capsules are shorter than wide.



Crocosmia are winter-hardy in warm temperate regions. They can be propagated through division, removing offsets from the corm in spring.







For images of Crocosmia, try Google:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en%26amp;q=...
Reply:If it is a tiny flower it is possibly the 'Fumitory' so named because it gives off a little puff of 'smoke' when touched.
Reply:It could be crocosmia. Check to see if it comes from a little bulb.