Yellow African Iris Butterfly Lily, 6" Pot
This delightful evergreen beauty is an essential addition to almost any landscape or interior collection! With the texture of large, clumping grass & long stems of delicate iris-like flowers, fortnight lily makes the perfect upright accent for poolside & water features, as well as patios, entryways & containers. Its name comes from the plant's tendency to issue new flowers every 2 weeks, beginning in spring & continuing through fall. These flowers can be pale to lemon-yellow in color, but they always have 3 characteristic dark spots near their intricate centers. They stay highly visible on stems that stand above the tips of fortnight lily’s slender, grassy leaves.
- This iris is a clump-forming rhizomatous perennial plant with long sword-like pale-green leaves, growing from multiple fans at the base of the clump.
- The blooms are yellow with three dark purple spots, each surrounded by an orange outline, and are followed by a capsule that may bend the flower stalks to the ground.
- Use as an accent plant either in the ground or in a container alongside entrance ways, stairs or paths. African Irises are also useful in borders, where they provide a strong vertical aspect. Use them as edging along paths, and for naturalizing in low maintenance gardens.
- Where not winter hardy, the rhizomes are lifted and brought inside in winter, or the plants are grown in containers.
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Delivery OptionThis delightful evergreen beauty is an essential addition to almost any landscape or interior collection! With the texture of large, clumping grass & long stems of delicate iris-like flowers, fortnight lily makes the perfect upright accent for poolside & water features, as well as patios, entryways & containers. Its name comes from the plant's tendency to issue new flowers every 2 weeks, beginning in spring & continuing through fall. These flowers can be pale to lemon-yellow in color, but they always have 3 characteristic dark spots near their intricate centers, & they stay highly visible on stems that stand above the tips of fortnight Lily’s slender, grassy leaves.