Unfortunately I've no pic at the moment but hope my description will enable
someone to ID it.

There is a large fan of spiky bluey green leaves (similar to iris) together
with a central stem which is now some 6' high. The stem has opened out into
some 10 sections alternately left and right of the stem. I do recall an
orange flower on it last year - but it certainly didn't reach the height it
is at now - and that was the first time it had flowered since we moved here
in 2001.

I did wonder if it could be a strelitzia or heliconia but the leaves seem
wrong - according to my research if it was one of these, then it would have
"banana plant" leaves - which this certainly doesn't.

Hope someone can help.

Jeanne

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Unfortunately I've no pic at the moment but hope my description will enable
someone to ID it.

There is a large fan of spiky bluey green leaves (similar to iris) together
with a central stem which is now some 6' high. The stem has opened out into
some 10 sections alternately left and right of the stem. I do recall an
orange flower on it last year - but it certainly didn't reach the height it
is at now - and that was the first time it had flowered since we moved here
in 2001.

I did wonder if it could be a strelitzia or heliconia but the leaves seem
wrong - according to my research if it was one of these, then it would have
"banana plant" leaves - which this certainly doesn't.

Hope someone can help.

Jeanne




Wachendorfia thyrsiflora? or Watsonia?
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Hi Jeanne, If the leaves are also quite tall, try looking up Phormium tenax known as The New Zealand Flax
best wishes Lannerman.