pls id this gorgeous flowers

[elijahboy]

i purched alot of bulb/rhizome and tuber flowers months ago and there are 2 that i am not familiar with and i dont remember which this one is

 

[Greenthumb18]

That is a pretty flower, its a Mexican Shell Flower. Hope this helps!

 

[journey11]

Wow, that's really something! Very striking.

 

[vfem]

Holy wow... gorgeous!

 

[elijahboy]

finally after you told me it was mexican shell flower i looked it up and found the name printed on the package tigridia

 

[elijahboy]

i think it came in rhizomes or something and 2 rhizomes were only 3.00 and these rhizomes (or whatever) has sprouted like 6 plants each

 

[elijahboy]

one more question for all the experts

no i live in south carolina near the coast and in the winter we may have like a weeks worth of cold (30) do i have to dig these up come fall or can i mulch over them and leave them in the ground