Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Dec 21, 2009 9:31 am Picking up on a point that was raised in another thread, I was disappointed to learn that Dietes gets the big thumbs down from our knowledgable Fu. The Bicolour version was apparently the worst offender proving very difficult to remove but what about the grandiflora and the iridiodes?? (both are very common over here) Are they any better? I just love the shape and the flowers. I'd be really interested to hear from anyone who already has these plants who can offer some words of wisdom. I've already got a few of these plants but I haven't planted them yet so I'm just wondering whether I need to throw them out in favour of the native iris, patersonia occidentalis or perhaps a form of dianella. Any help would be much appreciated! Fence, paving, retaining wall - CHECK! Still so much more to do..... Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 2Dec 21, 2009 11:05 am Hi Bella, I have got a few of the grandfloria for over a year, they grow fine. When they flower it only last a few days then dies off. I do give them a bit of water so they stay looking good rather than all messy like you see in public landscapes. I don't seem them as long term plant though. My red hot pokers have a far better show, but the leaves don't look as good. Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 3Dec 21, 2009 7:04 pm I should get a photo of some examples from around the traps. I would say NO there are none worth growing. 2-3 years some are fine. Have a look at ones older than that and they are a right PITA to remove. Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 4Dec 22, 2009 1:13 am look, I best add an alternative for them. For a Mc plant, try Dianellas. (native to Australia and loads of them to chose from) emerald arch is a fav of mine kanga paws are excellent and the Anigozanthos flavidous from WA's south coast does very well over east Patersonia (to the untrained eye you'd even think it was a bloody Dietes). Comes in Blue and white and some yellows can be got from seed mobs in WA. Actually related to Dietes. Conostylus Juncas Ficina Nodosa Lomandras (again loads of them to choose from) Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 5Dec 22, 2009 9:56 am Many thanks Fu! It looks as if I'll have to turf out my 3 dietes grandifloria unless anybody here in the south eastern Melbourne suburbs would like them! If anyone does, please just send me a PM. I've already bought a few dianella Kentlyn's and I really love their colour so I think I might use them and perhaps some patersonia's. When I was at a nursery yesterday I also came across Aristea Ecklonii which seemed to be a smaller version with purple flowers. I'll be off to another nursery today so I'll keep an eye out for the other options you've mentioned. Fence, paving, retaining wall - CHECK! Still so much more to do..... Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 6Dec 22, 2009 10:49 am The Aristeas are great plants to use Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 7Dec 22, 2009 7:15 pm I managed to pick up some aristea's today and I have to say that they do look fantastic! Fu - after I'd bought them I read on a website that they are invasive and great care needs to be taken to stop the spread of flower seeds. Is this actually the case? Fence, paving, retaining wall - CHECK! Still so much more to do..... Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 8Dec 23, 2009 11:48 am Not that I have found. The great thing is that even if they do become invasive as suggested, they are really easy to pull out, unlike the Dietes That may require a mini excavator to remove Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 9Dec 23, 2009 5:26 pm I love my Dietes, but they are only about 10 months old. I found that the grandiflora (purple ones) are a lot hardier than the bicolour (yellow) ones. I bought a few 8inch pots at the local nursery and split each into about 8 plants (they have sections like a bulb) - the purple ones stayed green and are now flowering, the yellow died off and have since resprouted and become more bushy, but no flowers. I planted some more yellow ones about 3 weeks ago (before our huge downpour of rain) and they have gone all brown and dead looking but I'm hoping they too resprout. They are in all of the local road median strips and in garden beds in our town's main street - I think they look awesome I think each year or 2 you should dig them up, break them up and replant them otherwise they tend to get a bit straggly and look overgrown. I've never heard/read about them being hard to dig out before. I like that their foliage isn't sharp, and the flowers are just gorgeous - don't last long but the ones I have seem to have a new mass of blooms each week. And I have some Lomandra for the backyard - more of a grassy look, but the flower isn't nearly as nice, and the leaves can be sharp! Second Time 'Round Re: Calling Fu! Dietes - are any types worth using? 10Dec 29, 2009 2:33 am Like I said I could take a bunch of photos from my immediate area that says these are a menace. I won't as that may identify my immediate area In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 20 57653 Hi I am wanting some opinions about the build of a steel shed I am going to get one about 4.5 x 2.5 m steel shed and the height will be about 2.3-2.4m high The one I am… 0 10554 Hi everyone. I am a single mother with little daughter, living in a small tourist town in WA Australia. 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