Re: Sisyrinchium (Blue eyed grass)


While on a horseback pack trip in the mountains along the Virginia-W.Va.
border one year, I found a little wild iris fan which I dug up and
transplanted to my central Virginia garden (mid-way between D.C. and
Richmond; Zone 7 I think).  I watched it anxiously for bloom the next
spring and loved the little blue flower, but was disappointed that it was
not really an iris.

Shortly thereafter I visited Rosalie Figge's garden north of Baltimore,
and there was the same little blue flower.  Rosalie set me straight
(as Rosalie can so delightfully do)--it was indeed in the iris family.

I love and still grow this little bugger--extensively.  But not invasive?
If you let it go to seed you may find it coming up everywhere.  I try to
always get out and trim the seed pods off before they mature.  It's in the
same bed where my pseudacorus went to seed, also.  Keeping that bed under
control has been a struggle ever since.

Just a word of warning to those planting pseudacorus and Sisyrinchium
seeds!

Lois Rose, who hopes pulling pseudacorus and blue-eyed grass as weeds
doesn't detract from her character-building in central Virginia.
lros@loc.gov
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