Iris foetidissima.....common name stinking iris. I wanted it but couldn't find one here. Ordered one on e bay....arrived very healthy./well packed/cheap.
A great plant for shade with evergreen sword shaped leaves. I know it as the roast beef plant. I have always liked it but it can set alot of seed. It is also prone to rust which is a shame as I can not think of another plant with these attributes. I remember it with just yellow flowers?
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
It's a native wild plant. Happy in dark woodlands. Keep an eye out for the seeds, which will germinate readily. I guess about JUly; I think I found mine in a wood near Studland.
The seed heads last and look good, but the leaves get tatty. They need trimming id they are in a prime position.
The flower is too "subtle" to sell in most garden centres.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I don't think I've seen it in a chain garden centre but I have seen it in a small independent that has a few things I think they dig up once self seeded. I seem to remember that it was pretty expensive for some reason and it was just the bog standard species (don't know if cultivars are available) that grows wild in our local area.
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I wanted it but couldn't find one here.
Ordered one on e bay....arrived very healthy./well packed/cheap.
I remember it with just yellow flowers?
Indeed , once you've got one in your garden you tend to have it for life .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The seed heads last and look good, but the leaves get tatty. They need trimming id they are in a prime position.
The flower is too "subtle" to sell in most garden centres.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."