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Dietes Bicolor "Fortnight Lily" 4Liter
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Dietes Bicolor "Fortnight Lily" 4Liter
Product Details
Weight: 4.00 kg
🌼 Dietes bicolor
Botanical Name: Dietes bicolor
Common Names: African Iris, Fortnight Lily, Yellow Wild Iris, Butterfly Iris
📌 Product Description
Dietes bicolor, commonly known as African Iris or Fortnight Lily, is a hardy, evergreen perennial valued for its soft yellow flowers marked with dark brown and orange centres. The blooms appear in cycles, often every two weeks during the flowering season — giving rise to the name Fortnight Lily.
With its upright, sword-like foliage, this low-maintenance plant adds structure and movement to gardens. It is exceptionally well-suited to South African conditions and performs beautifully in borders, mass plantings, coastal gardens, and water-wise landscapes.
📏 Size When Fully Grown
- Height: approx. 60 – 90 cm
- Spread: approx. 60 – 100 cm
- Growth Habit: Clump-forming, upright, evergreen
- Growth Rate: Moderate
🌱 Best Growing Conditions
- Light: Full sun to partial shade (flowers best in full sun)
- Soil: Well-drained soil; adaptable to sandy, loamy, or clay soils
- Water:
- Moderate watering
- Drought-tolerant once established
- Can tolerate occasional wet conditions
- Feeding: Light application of balanced fertiliser in spring
- Maintenance:
- Remove old flower stems and damaged leaves
- Divide clumps every few years to maintain vigour
- Moderate watering
- Drought-tolerant once established
- Can tolerate occasional wet conditions
- Remove old flower stems and damaged leaves
- Divide clumps every few years to maintain vigour
🌦️ Planting & Growing Season (South Africa)
- Best Planting Time: Spring to early summer (September – November)
- Growing Season: Year-round in mild climates
- Flowering Season: Primarily spring and summer, with intermittent blooms throughout the year in warm regions
- Climate Suitability: Excellent for temperate, subtropical, and coastal regions
- Frost Tolerance: Tolerates light frost
🌼 Additional Benefits
- Indigenous and water-wise
- Long flowering season
- Low-maintenance and hardy
- Suitable for coastal and windy areas
- Attracts pollinators
🌿 Ideal Uses
✔ Borders and edging
✔ Mass plantings
✔ Water-wise gardens
✔ Coastal gardens
✔ Around ponds and pathways
✔ Commercial and municipal landscaping
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