PlantSale Plant care guide

Large Wild Iris

Dietes grandiflora · Iridaceae

Strappy evergreen iris from southern Africa with elegant white flowers marked yellow and violet, opening in fortnightly flushes. Almost indestructible, though it can naturalise.

At a glance

Habit: Perennial
Light: Full Sun, Part Shade
Water: Low Water
Climate: Warm Temperate, Subtropical, Mediterranean
Frost: Frost-Hardy
Mature size: 1 m H × 0.6 m W
Foliage: Evergreen
Flowering: Spring Flowering, Summer Flowering, Long-Flowering
Growth rate: Moderate Growth
Maintenance: Low Maintenance

Good for

Feature / Specimen
Erosion Control
Pots & Containers
Hedging & Screening
Water-Wise
Coastal / Salt-Tolerant
Weed / Invasive Risk