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| Trimm back during Autumn |
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| Dietes Grandiflora DC |
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| New Growth from seedlings |
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| Seed Pots |
Thanks to our daughter, we have found the name of one of the mystery plant. It is called the Fortnight lily, African Iris, Japanese Iris, or Butterfly Iris. The scientific name is Dietes Grandiflora DC.
This plant is very drought tolerant, very hardy, grows on any dirt, and spreads like weeds or wild flowers, but it gives you beautiful white flowers with yellow and purplish centers in the Spring and Summer. However, this plant needs to be controlled when it started to invade the space of other plants. After the summer blooms dried up, the pods contain lots of seeds that can cause headaches to weed them out. Soon you will find your entire yard full of baby African Iris. One simple way to stop that is to cut off all dead blooms before they become seedlings. Unless you wanted to start a garden full of these, the seeds will germinate in no time and can be transplanted to cover some barren spot with little water and attention needed. They grow so fast that they should be trimmed back every fall or split their root system into half and transplant to another spot.
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