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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    They look like Bletilla Striata, Chinese Orchid, which is more commonly grown in the UK.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I don't think it is a Dierama, they have thin grassy foliage, not at all like picture.
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I nearly said Dierama when I first saw it but the leaves don't look right, too thick and the flower stems should be longer.
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I don't think its Dierama either, as Busy-Lizzie says, leaves don't look right. Mine's just about to flower with papery silvery flower buds all down the stalks. The clump is now about 2ft in diameter and probably 3ft tall (it's on a high raised bank so difficult to measure!).
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree too - not Dierama. As well as the foliage being wrong, the stems don't look right at all.

    Not a plant I know of, but @Borderline's suggestion looks more likely. 
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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I wasn't sure at all, hence my original comment. The flowers looked very similar to my neighbour's ones on their plant, but that definitely is a Dierama (she showed me the label when l first admired it !).

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My Dierama has just got buds now,  slow here,  anyone’s else in flower now? 


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