Creeksong

Beautiful!

Thank you, Sonja.

Yeah.... Funny thing about these..... Though HD (and other garden centers) sells them as African Irises, they're technically not Irises at all. The correct botanical ID is Dietes Iridioides ↔ Moraea Iridioides --- some of its common names include Fortnight Lily, White African Iris, Wild Iris, Cape Iris, Butterfly Iris and probably a few others... They are in the same family as true Irises, but are only related to them. The bud-like thing seen just below the flower is the immature fruit/seed pod. If you remove the seed pods, the plant will bloom some more... Just don't cut the stems with the spent flowers.

Learn something new every day, eh?

You must be in a warm growing zone for these to do so well for you.

You might have better luck waiting 'til the seed pods pop on their own while still attached to the plant and planting the seeds right after collection.

These guys are easy to propagate by division of the clumps, too.... Maybe more so than through seed collection. Divide them like you would Daylilies ;)