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Dietes Grandiflora "Butterfly Iris" 4Liter
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Dietes Grandiflora "Butterfly Iris" 4Liter
Product Details
Weight: 4.00 kg
🌼 Dietes grandiflora
Botanical Name: Dietes grandiflora
Common Names: Wild Iris, African Iris, Large Wild Iris, Fairy Iris, Butterfly Iris
📌 Product Description
Dietes grandiflora is a hardy, evergreen perennial admired for its large white flowers marked with yellow and violet-blue accents. The elegant blooms appear repeatedly throughout the warmer months, creating a striking display above its upright, sword-like foliage.
This resilient and low-maintenance plant is perfectly suited to South African gardens, thriving in a variety of climates. It is widely used in borders, mass plantings, coastal gardens, and commercial landscapes due to its durability and long flowering season.
📏 Size When Fully Grown
- Height: approx. 1 – 1.2 m
- Spread: approx. 1 m
- Growth Habit: Clump-forming, upright, evergreen
- Growth Rate: Moderate
🌱 Best Growing Conditions
- Light: Full sun to partial shade (best flowering in full sun)
- Soil: Well-drained soil; adaptable to sandy, loamy, or clay soils
- Water:
- Moderate watering
- Drought-tolerant once established
- Tolerates occasional wet conditions
- Feeding: Light application of balanced fertiliser in spring
- Maintenance:
- Remove spent flower stems
- Trim older leaves to keep plant tidy
- Divide clumps every few years to maintain vigour
- Moderate watering
- Drought-tolerant once established
- Tolerates occasional wet conditions
- Remove spent flower stems
- Trim older leaves to keep plant tidy
- Divide clumps every few years to maintain vigour
🌦️ Planting & Growing Season (South Africa)
- Best Planting Time: Spring to early summer (September – November)
- Growing Season: Active growth in spring and summer
- Flowering Season: Spring through summer, with intermittent blooms in mild climates
- Climate Suitability: Temperate, subtropical, coastal, and inland regions
- Frost Tolerance: Tolerates light frost
🌼 Additional Benefits
- Indigenous and water-wise
- Large, striking blooms
- Low-maintenance and hardy
- Ideal for coastal and windy conditions
- Suitable for residential and commercial landscaping
🌿 Ideal Uses
✔ Borders and edging
✔ Mass planting
✔ Water-wise gardens
✔ Coastal gardens
✔ Around driveways and pathways
✔ Commercial and municipal landscapes
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