No late summer flower garden is complete without crocosmia's vibrant wands of scarlet, red, orange, and yellow. They offer a late pop of color when many gardens are languishing in the dog days. Their narrow, bladed foliage provides vertical accents much like gladiola leaves.
The world's biggest military bases. All five of the world's biggest military bases belong to the US, with Fort Bragg housing a staggering 52,280 active duty soldiers. Army-technology.com lists the largest army bases in the world, ranked by population. Fort Bragg is the largest US Army base in terms of population.
After independence, the bases were allowed to remain, with the most important being the Subic Bay naval base and Clark Airbase, both located north of Manila. These became the largest U.S. overseas military bases in the world, but were damaged by the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption.