Plant it in coastal full sun to light shade in a well-drained soil and irrigate regularly - although from South Africa this plant comes from summer rainfall areas and needs regular summer irrigation. Hardy to USDA Zone 8. A great plant for the garden and the flowers are long-lasting when cut for the vase.

Eucomis comosa comes from the summer rainfall Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal of South African where is found growing long the coastal belt and inland, on damp, grassy places on hillsides, and along river and stream banks. The name for the genus comes from the Greek word 'eu' for "good" and 'kome' meaning "hair" in reference to the attractive flower heads. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "furnished with a tuft" or " bearing tufts of leaves", again in reference to the showy bracts on top of the flowers. We grew and sold this plant starting in 2004 from selected seedlings off a very nice dark red plant found in the Santa Barbara garden of plantsman Jim Prine. 

The information displayed on this page about Eucomis comosa 'Rubrum' is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.