Dierama dracomontanum
Drakensberg angel's fishing wand
Also known as Dierama pumilum, Dierama hermia
- Height × spread
- 0.7m × 0.3m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Summer
Availability
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About this plant
This compact plant makes a clump of rigid, spiky, grassy foliage. The leaves are slender and make something of a fan shaped clump. The flowering spikes in summer are held on long stems that angle upwards and outwards like fishing rods. The flowers are coloured a warm rose-pink, delightful fan shaped blossoms that dangle. In the wild Dierama grows in open grassland and is therefore self supporting and wind tolerant. It reaches around 70cm (2ft 6in) height with a 30cm (12in) spread.
- Flower colour
- Pink
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Weeping
- Height
- 0.7m
- Spread
- 0.3m
- Season of interest
- Summer
- Flowers in
- Summer
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Seaside garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Clay, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring - late · Outdoors
Feed with slow release fertiliser
Apply a general purpose slow release fertiliser, spreading it around the root area of the plant as it is coming into growth. (Or apply a liquid feed at regular intervals throughout the growing season.)
This is a simple way to provide a nutrient boost as a single annual procedure.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water during dry periods
For plants in the ground, when there has been little or no rain for a period of 7-10 days and the soil is dry, give it a deep watering and repeat weekly until there is a downpour of rain. Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.