Blue-Eyed Grass Is Native Prairie Iris Or Sisyrinchium

Blue-eyed grass is blooming everywhere correct right away too what a pretty bluish show!

At the centre of each bloom a seed capsule forms too is dropped onto the the world for side past times side year's flowers.

They are mutual frigidity hardy inward zones three to 8, bespeak well-drained soil too thrive on thin, infertile soils. Their native make is FL, TX, too OK to New Foundland too Quebec inward Canada.

If y'all would similar to grow them inward your sunny garden, straight sow the seeds inward October. The seeds volition mutual frigidity stratify over the winter. The seeds germinate inward the spring.

If the conditions is hot too dry out inward the spring, the planting volition convey to live on watered.

If preferred, the seeds tin hand notice live on started indoors inward flats afterward they pass six weeks inward the fridge for their needed mutual frigidity stratification. They volition germinate best at 50-degrees too thus almost houses volition live on also warm.


Interestingly, though all of our flowers are blue, at that spot are also white ones.

Varieties: Prairie Blue-eyed Grass is Sisyrinchium campestre, Sword-leaf Blue-eyed Grass is Sisyrinchium ensigerum, Mountain Blue-eyed Grass is Sisyrinchium montanum, Dotted Blue-eyed Grass is Sisyrinchium pruinosum too Lucerne or Stout Blue-eyed Grass is Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Lucerne'.

By the way, Blue-eyed Grass isn't a grass at all simply is named for its foliage that is spear-like, similar to the garden Iris nosotros all know.

We convey extended the master copy piece of Blue-eyed Grass past times non mowing that role of the yard. Over the years, the colony has increased from one-half a dozen to hundreds of plants. 

If the plants decease also thick too halt blooming, they tin hand notice dug too divided.

Prairie Moon is 1 plant nursery that offers both seeds too plants for shipment.

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