African Iris
These are evergreen perennials with spreading fans of stiff, leathery sword shaped leaves up to 2 ft length but only 0.75 inches wide. The 2-4 ft flowering stalks, which are perennial, are branched and stiffly wiry, bearing a succession of short-lived irislike flowers throughout spring and summer. The flowers, rather flattened and nearly 3 in across, are milky white with yellow markings on the three larger tepals. The flowering stems of the african iris are perennial, so don’t cut them back after flowering as you might for most other iris like plants. They are tolerant of poor...
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