This iris from Algeria is a fabulous Mediterranean plant to have in your garden due to its bloom time, flowering from late fall to early spring, when so few other flowers do. You will enjoy these sweetly scented flowers which are lavender to deep violet in colour, in the garden or as cut flowers in your home. The plant forms a dense clump of evergreen grassy foliage of dark green narrow, tough leaves, best planted as individual clumps or in rows of clumps. This grassy clump appearance makes it especially suitable for Mediterranean or Native style gardens. Being waterwise and sun tough, it can cope in Australia's harsh climate, even along side walks, driveways and against walls. However - as with most plants in Adelaide - the best results are usually seen when sheltered from the harsh afternoon sun, or when planted in the dappled shade of a tree.