
Blackberry Lily
- Botanical Name
- Iris domestica
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 10
- Height
- 2 to 3 feet
- Width
- 9 to 24 inches
- Flowers
- July to August: 2 inch, star-shaped, orange dotted with red
- Fruit
- Pear-shaped seed pod containing blackberry-like seed cluster
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Good drainage essential for optimum growth
- May self-seed in favored growing conditions, which keeps this often short-lived perennial in the garden
- Clumps slowly expand by creeping rhizomes
- Plants bloom the second year from seed
- Problems
- Iris borer
- Varieties
- Hello Yellow - yellow flowers, compact 18 to 24 inches tall
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