Butterfly Grass Dietes has nice thick strappy foliage, grows in clumps and is perfect for modern landscapes. Unlike most other grasses, from spring until winter it produces beautiful butterfly-like flowers with white petals and blue and yellow centres.
Butterfly Grass Dietes is one of the most versatile plants, it thrives in difficult sites, enjoys drought, wind, heat and poor soils. It’s great to plant behind low flowering borders such as gazania, Daisy Spray Erigeron or pink carpet roses. Because Butterfly Grass Dietes is so easy to establish and maintain, you see it mass planted in many roadside and commercial plantings. Butterfly Grass Dietes can be used to under-plant trees, as a specimen in a cottage gardens or a tall flowering border in a modern garden. Multiple varieties are often available.
Dietes Bi-Colour is an ornamental plant with large butter-yellow flowers marked with burgundy. It’s great as a hardy low maintenance plant and is drought tolerant.
Dietes Bi-Colour grows in most places of Australia with attractive foliage/flowers which are long flowering, and with its toughness you can’t go wrong.