What is a peacock?

The peacock flower is a member of the Iris family, Iridaceae, but looks more exotic than a typical garden iris. Even if the plant does not bloom, has Willowy, evergreen leaves, architectural beauty of ornamental grass. A South African native usually grows in pastures where there is moisture, rather than repeating, so the gardeners may have to learn when and how to water it. Sometimes people call it other names such as African or Spanish iris, bicolor Iris or Evergreen Iris, and there are other plants that growers call peak flowers. Percock Flower now belongs to the family of diet , but used to be in Moraea . Nursery people often state it under their old name, Morae Aristat or in the synonym of the Morae Glaucopis . Some kindergartens mistakenly sell Dutch iris or other types of Irises as a peacock.

is often listed as d. Bicolor . There are other plants called PayCock Floy, including caesalpinia pulcherrima , tigridia meleagriwith and denyix regia . Most well -informed growers buy plants from knowledgeable or reliable kindergartens.

peacock flowers are usually white or pastel yellow and have a large, blue or purple eye on each external heartbeat. These beats are at the floral base of floral parts similar to flower. The flowers are usually 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 cm) across and made at the end of spring on slender stems, which are sometimes branched. Flower plants in peacocks can take two to three years or more to make flowers.

Usually gardeners in the climate of similar zones of USDA nine and ten plant plants of peacocks in rock gardens or as border plants. In the climate, where there are marginally Hardy, growers plant them at the base of warm, sunny walls or in greenhouses. In winter, growers are generally doing well by providing deep dry mulch but unusually heavy frost can plantskill. They can rot if the winter is not dry enough, because they are South African plants and used to an extremely dry winter climate.

In general, plants are 10 to 14 inches (25 to 35 cm) and some of the long, flat, narrow linear leaves can grow to 18 inches (45 cm) long. Some gardeners said that in ideal conditions of growing their plants they reached a height of about 3 feet (1 m). Long, hard leaves are basal, which means that they grow only from the base of the plant. This permanent plant grows from rhizomes. Gardeners promote the plant by sowing seeds or dividing sewn compensation during the sleeping season.