Dierama Reynoldsii - Indigenous South African Bulb - 5 Seeds

Dierama is a genus in the Iridaceae and is commonly known as Fairy's Fishing Rods or Fairy's Wand. Its cultivars produce graceful flower shoots bearing flowers of a range of colours from white through to dark red. It retains some foliage throughout most winters in the temperate zone but its principal over-wintering stage is a corm or rather a chain of corms similar to those of Crocosmia species. The genus name is derived from the Greek word dierama, meaning "funnel", and alludes to the shape of the flower.

Features a rather sparse tuft of strap-like leaves 0.5-1 m long and 4-6 mm wide. The main flower stalk may be up to 2 m tall, with several spikes of flowers branching off it. Each spike may be up to 150 mm long, with up to 12 flowers crowded near the tip. Flowers deep magenta-purple, 20-30 mm long, goblet-shaped, arising from a silvery, papery bract.

USDA Zone - 7

Season to Sow - Spring