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Dierama
I have waited two years for the dierama to flower, having nearly pulled it out a couple of times because I thought it was a weed.
Beautiful pinky purple, so far only one wand. Its not planted near a pond as I dont have one, too frightened of loosing the grandchildren in one. Both I and my husband as children fell into a garden pond, they are like magnets to young children. (Giggle not at the same time)
Anyway just to say if you are thinking of planting or indeed have one in just be patient and it will bloom and it just so pretty
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Hi Seakale, the dierama I bought as a substantial plant took 2 years to flower and those I am growing from seed are in there 3rd year and I don't expect them to flower for a couple of years more, so fully agree with you. Once they do start, the number of flowering 'wands' increases noticably every year - last year 5, this year 10 (just went out and counted them!)
Thanks for this info. I had one in the garden for a couple of years but I think I have pulled it up by mistake. I have just bought 3 more so it looks like I will have to be patient (and careful).
I had two kinds, but I like them so much that I have just bought another seven which I have dotted around the border. I like the way that they take up so little room but give a good display of flowers which float above the surrounding plants. Most of them flower in summer, but I have bought one that flowers in spring (Spring Dancer).
I find that the petals get ruined if it rains heavily when they flower. Does anybody else have that problem?
I planted some dierama seeds in early spring and they are now like blades of grass which are in pots in a plastic greenhouse. Does anyone have any advice on planting out? I was going to wait until they were largish plants even if it took a few years. I recently read it is best to plant them out the first spring as they don't like being moved and may die if moved. I'm worried they will still be too small as they do seem to grow fairly slowly.
I grew mine on in pots for over 2 years, repotting annually and only planted out the larger ones this spring which were about 40cm tall and had roughly a dozen leaves. I honestly don't think they would have survived had I planted them out any younger and it may have been impossible to distinguish them from grass. I didn't lose any of them after repotting although one or two of the weaker ones lost their leaves in the first winter but the bulbs re-sprouted in the spring although they are still growing weakly.
Thanks BobTheGardener, I shall keep them under my wing until they are bigger.
Christopher LLoyd used to have them at Great Dixter seeding into cracks in the paved area. Dry as anything, flowered lovely
Norwood nursery last year.