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Arthropodium Strictum

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Price:
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Common Name:
CHOCOLATE LILLY

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.


WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

  • Upright herb to about 1m high with tuberous roots. 
  • Linear leaves. 
  • Dies down to tubers in summer and re-shoots in autumn (March to May)
  • Flowering chocolate-scented blue to violet, star-shaped flowers, August to January. 

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Widespread through most areas in region. 
  • Forest, woodland and open country, on wide range of soils and aspects. 
  • Prefe well-drained to seasonally inundated soils.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Excellent adaptable specimen for rockeries, among small shrubs or containers. 
  • Plant in groups for best effect. 
  • Apply small quantities of native plant fertiliser to encourage growth. 
  • Extend flowering by removing stems before seedheads form.

 

 

 

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