Moraea alticola

£7.00

Flowering sized bulbs.

Despatched September-April

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Description

Lovely, clear, pale sulphur-yellow, scented flowers in the shape of an Iris, each flower with a darker “eye”. The flowers are borne from late May to July, depending on climate, alongside the long and narrow, arching foliage with ornamental, golden-meshed leaf sheaths.

This is a strong-growing and showy species, and at 75 cm tall, one of, if not the, largest. It grows well and establishes nice clumps in time in the garden where it takes almost any conditions from hot and dry in full sun, to moister, humus rich sites in light shade.

Found in the highest, alpine zones of the Drakensberg in S. Africa where it grows in moist places at between 2,500m and 2,900m and perfectly happy outside, in the UK as far north as Northern Scotland. This does emerge very late in the spring, please don’t panic.

Moraea alticola
Moraea alticola