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Crocosmia

Is anyone else growing this in Florida? I got a pot of them at a MG sale in the Spring. I separated the one pot into 5 others. They started blooming in early August, but almost immediately started to fall over under their own weight. Now they have almost all flowered and if they're not laying on the ground, they are severely leaning and starting to yellow. I am thinking the flopping might be because of two reasons: 1) I never really fertilized them and 2) they might have simply been bred too tall to hold their own weight and need support. I suppose there could be a third reason in that since I separated the rhizomes, I ended up thinning the clumps too much so that they weren't able to lean on each other in the wind.

Regardless of the reason for flopping, I am wondering if, even though they are rhizomes instead of true bulbs, if I should cut back the foliage to a few inches above the soil and let them more or less 'rest' until next spring?

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