Dierama Erectum - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Barenbrug

Dierama Erectum - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds BarenbrugDierama 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,

It is a very hardy tree and is grown extensively in Zimbabwe and the Northern parts of South Africa

relative to the local microclimate

It is a classic

Top Mark made its appearance sometime in the early 1960s

with pachycaul stems and a stout

It is also known in the Anglophone world as 'Hot lemon' or 'Lemon Drop'

Balsam is an old-fashioned annual that produces single or double flowers in the leaf axils along the main stem of the plant from summer to early autumn

The flower is large and showy

Pods are strongly constricted

Umbrella like clusters of tiny white flowers appear in late spring and early summer and attract butterflies and a host of beneficial insects including bees

There are not many aloes from the Cape that flower during summer

A heirloom from the Black Sea region of Russia