The Coolest Flower in the World is a "Fireflower"

[Holodoc]

Let me tell you about this freako flower I saw on an apt's front lawn a few years ago. Each day as I walked by, a new row of blooms would burst open in bright vermillion. The buds in the front lay idle. And as the blooms opened towards the front, the back ones would die off. The first thing you think of looking at this display is that it looks like someone torched it and it's burning down the rows of buds. Total freakazoid flower , and it was a single one amidst other flowering plants at the time.

Looked for it but nobody else grew them. Then, years later, someone a block from here grew a patch of them. I watched them catch fire at different times throughout the course of a couple of weeks. I decided I had to find out what they were, so I stopped at one point and sketched this picture:

Then showed it to Seven. We brainstormed the garden databases for a very, very long time. Then, we found out that they weren't a form of hosta (since the flower grows on a long stem which comes from out of a patch of leaves), but a bulb called the Crocosmia Lucifer:

With a name like that, it appears I'm not the only one who likens these to flame.

[Christina]

;D big cheesy grin  ;D

Crocosmia (formerly Montbretia)

And Lucifer certainly is a wonderful red cultivar.

They grow wild now in parts of Cornwall, after escaping from peoples gardens, and really brighten up the roadside verges.

[Holodoc]

Now I am envious.

But walking down the block I saw them last year, I saw what could be those growing in the same spot as last year. There are the leaves which resemble daffodils or tulips (long blades) and that hosta-like stem and some developing budthings at the ends. I hope that's what they are, and that they bloom when Seven visits. She has to see these in person!