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Video 10 in my Best Hummingbird-Attracting Plants series features Crocosmia 'Lucifer,' (Montbretia). I got this plant in the bulb section of my local nursery. The internet states its USDA zones 5-9. From first hand experience, it does fine in our Colorado winters zones 4-5 and naturalize, creating more corms each year next to the original ones. The flowers reach up to 3-4’ tall and blooms from late summer to fall. Perfect timing for hummingbirds to feast upon in migration. This plant is not nati