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.
Now in the final stage of a massive base expansion, when completed around 2020, Humphreys will have tripled in size to nearly 3,500 acres â roughly the size of central Washington, D.C. â making it the largest overseas American military base in the world, capping off over a dozen years of transformation and consolidation of the U.S. military footprint in South Korea.