Dianella caerulea – Blue Flax-lily

Description

Dianella caerulea – Blue Flax-lily

Family: Asphodelaceae
Packet: 10 seeds

Description

Dianella caerulea is an eastern Australian native flax-lily with narrow, arching leaves and delicate blue star-shaped flowers with yellow anthers. Flowers are followed by glossy blue to violet berries.

Key Features

• Fruit Colour: Blue / Violet
• Plant habit: Rhizomatous clumping perennial
• Garden interest and important notes: This adaptable perennial forms clumps or spreading patches by underground rhizomes, making it useful in informal borders, beneath trees and native gardens.

Growing Conditions

• Position: Sun to part shade, adjusting to local summer heat.
• Soil: Adaptable in many soil types provided excess water drains away.
• Water: Water during establishment; established plants can tolerate periods of dryness.
• Climate: Suitable across many Australian temperate to subtropical climates.

Seed Propagation

1. Prepare: Use reasonably fresh seed; no hot-water treatment or nicking or scratching the seed coat is generally required.
2. Sow: Sow lightly below the surface of moist seed-raising mix.
3. Germination conditions: Keep evenly moist in a sheltered place while seedlings establish.
4. After germination: Transplant after roots develop; allow space for spreading clumps.

Germination depends on seed freshness, temperature and growing conditions.

Germination advice: These instructions are a recommended guide. Germination results and timing may vary depending on seed freshness, storage, temperature and growing conditions. Alternative propagation methods may also be successful.