Although the list of suppliers appended to Hilliard & Burtt's book is now 15 years old and so to some extent outdated, it may still serve as a first suggestion of sources of material. D. reynoldsii is far from the commonest species in cultivation, and it should come as no surprise if surviving nurseries on that list are unable to supply the species treated here. Some years ago the author attended a conference in Edinburgh (Scotland), and was pleased to note that the most common bedding plant on the University campus that year was Dierama —  not D. reynoldsii but a much paler-flowered plant, presumably a selection or hybrid involving D. pendulum . Although undeniably attractive, mass plantings of Dierama are probably not the best way of using these plants. A few individuals in a semblance of their natural habitat (arching over a pool for some species, in the wilder fringes of a lawn for D. reynoldsii ) would be far more impressive.

This species will need warm, wet summers, cool to cold, moist winters and an adequate supply of organic nutrients. Although it would probably cope well with the temperatures in Gauteng ( South Africa 's main population centre), it would need more water, especially in winter, than the climate there supplies. However, the plant to which this name was first applied was grown in Dr Reynolds's garden in Northcliff, Johannesburg, for some years before the name D. reynoldsii was published.

It does not appear that anyone has recorded anything about cultivating this plant since Reynolds's specimen of over 60 years ago. Propagating these plants by offsets is clearly not practical, as one of the defining characters of this species is its solitary growth. Propagation by seed should be possible, but one would expect that, as with some other corms of similar areas, the expectations raised by good and easy germination may be frustrated by the damping off of most of the seedlings shortly after they are planted out.

For the same reason, pests and diseases of this species are largely unknown, but may be expected to include thrips and their ilk, moles and fungi of various kinds. Thrips are controlled to a greater of lesser extent by various insecticides, and information on these is readily available from any competent garden centre. . Any fungi found on this species will almost certainly be new to science (95% of southern African microfungi are undescribed).