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A winter dormant, clumping perennial with large (20cm) leaves.In summer tall spikes of pendant, purple, trumpet shaped flowers rise above the foliage. Provide with light shade, moisture, food and plenty of organic matter. Protect from slugs and snails. Can break dormancy as late as December.
A winter dormant, clumping perennial with large (35cm) leaves.In summer tall spikes of pendant, lavender, trumpet shaped flowers rise above the foliage. Provide with light shade, moisture, food and plenty of organic matter. Protect from slugs and snails. Can break dormancy as late as December.
A winter dormant, clumping perennial with large (35cm) leaves.In summer tall spikes of pendant, greyish lavender, trumpet shaped flowers rise above the foliage. Provide with light shade, moisture, food and plenty of organic matter. Protect from slugs and snails. Can break dormancy as late as December.
A clumping evergreen perennial. Fans of green and white striped sword-like leaves form dense clumps. In Spring to Summer sprays of delicate pale blue to white, small, crested, iris flowers are produced. Probably the easiest to grow of all the variegated Iris. Almost as tough as the original but does require a little more T.L.C.
An Evansia or Crested Iris from south western China that suffers less from the burnt foliage over summer that make most other members of the tribe intolerable in Perth.
Large, flat, gracefully weeping fans of broad, mid green leaves slowly rise on bare, jointed, bamboo-like stems to produce a branching, airy display of dainty, ruffled, almost white, pale blue, six petalled flowers delicately stencilled with golden yellow and spots of darker blues.
For a sheltered, shady site with moist, well drained soil or superlative in a large glazed pot to enhance its graceful/exotic/oriental appeal.
Each stem after flowering should be removed to make way for the vigorous new basal fans.
The largest of the Evansia and easily one of the largest plants in the genus.
A garden quintessential that really shouldn't need an introduction but then it is not seen today as often as it once was, so here goes.
Mounds of softly haired, bright green, broadly lance shaped leaves grow over winter and erupt in spring with clusters of small, five petalled, yellow centred, azure flowers.
As seen in deciduous woodlands throughout Europe and best sown en masse in similar conditions, or the shady side of your house, where it will hopefully naturalise or even become your most attractive weed. Works in a pot too.
Intolerant of sunny, dry conditions and snails but otherwise dead easy and gorgeous.
Scratch into cool moist soil in late autumn or early winter. Each pack contains 50+ seeds.