Large, cup-shaped scarlet flowers open continuously over slowly running clumps of sword-shaped leaves. In bloom from spring until the first serious frosts of winter, this must be one of the longest flowering plants in the garden! (Click for more details)

From clumps of sword-shaped leaves arise stems of cup-shaped flowers from white, through pinks to deepest vermilion. This South African gladiolus relative provides valuable colour from August right through autumn and into winter if it remains mild. (Click for more details)