For years we've set up shop at one or another local farmers' market on Saturdays from April through October. It's our main opportunity to display our wares to a live audience, since we haven't had a retail shop at home. In this situation, you always need an attention-grabber, something that will slow the customers down and make them give your booth a closer look. We have discovered over the years that blooming Dietes (dye EET ees) never fail to stop traffic. I'm not sure why; we have no lack of unusual and attractive flowers in our collection, but for some reason these South African Iris-family corms get a second look from almost everybody. I think it might be that they have the familiarity of an Iris, but are just different enough to cause a double-take. Dietes is a relatively new classification that includes some of the plants previously classified as Moraea.