Sisyrinchiums.

Recently I flirt with a group of witching American garden enthusiast in my garden . Many of them were scheme by my genus Sisyrinchium and were unfamiliar with them . Perhaps they are not widely useable to buy in the States , although I think they are native to America . It is a large genus include both herbaceous and alpine plants . They are part of the iris family and have overweight roots arising from rhizomes . Many of them seed around so enthusiastically that they can become a nuisance . The most commonly love one isSisyrinchium striatumwhich will sow to produce large groups . It has iris - alike foliage and creamy lily-livered flowers .

Sisyrinchium striatumwith iris

Thinking about sisyrinchiums cue me of a adorable planting I saw on a garden sojourn a few years ago . I ca n’t even remember where the garden was , but I was really taken with it and file it away in my thinker for future use . trawl through my photographs I found a pic of the garden that had taken my eye .

Sisyrinchium striatumwith iris

I am going to take up the idea and imbed up a new bed with a palm of strappy- leaved plants edging it . The blue flowers edging the itinerary in the photograph are alpine Sisyrinchium . The plants in my young seam will includeSisyrinchium striatum , some iris which I am growing from germ , ( all fry of Cedric Morris fleur-de-lis , ) andLibertia grandifloralike those in the photo . Here is a libertia with the lovely darkPersicaria‘Red Dragon ’ which Cathy fromRambling in the Gardenblog kindly gave me .

Libertia grandiflora

To the left of theSisyrinchium striatumin the first picture is a variegated one called ‘ Aunt May ’ . This does n’t seed about but it is very pretty . Here it is in my garden . The wintertime rime nigrify some of the leaf , this one needs tidy up a minute .

Sisyrinchium striatumwith iris

genus Sisyrinchium striatum‘Aunt May ’

I have already opt the billet for this new seam . There is already a Mount Etna Broom , Genista aetnensishere and a very unusual pine tree diagram . I have anAbutilon vitifoliumwhich would look lovely here .

Abutilon vitifolium

In the greenhouse I have a very rareEchium webbiigrown from seed by my immature -fingered friend . Echium webbiiis rather tender but it is spectacular in flower so it can be molly - coddled in the glasshouse for another yr and then I will put on the line it down here in this shelter part of the garden .

This is the spot earmark for the new bed on the left field . Do n’t you recall that all that slow old lawn is a wastefulness of space ? And I prefer to have as many tree as possible safely ensconce in large bed . The Pianist is like Attila the Hun when he get on his ride - on mower . I have already had at least six rare trees succumb to his enthusiasm . I seem to remember reading somewhere that Attila the Hun once said : ‘ There where I have passed , the grass will nevergrow again ’ . Here in my garden , for grass read , trees . See that hole in the gage ? It once moderate a rarified Polstead Black Cherry . Still I must n’t sound off , my Mower of Grass and Slayer of Trees is a hoarded wealth and an infrangible Elia when he ’s not on the mower . And I have learnt a serious path of sealing up the wounds of tree that are n’t terminally hurt with cd wax .

Some of the diminished Sisyrinchium can be incursive but so far mine are very well behaved . I grow them in gravel in the unexampled Mediterranean garden . They include a pure white one called ‘ Iceberg ’ which closes its middle when the sun goes in .

Libertia grandiflora

Sisyrinchium‘Iceberg ’

And this small honey with sky blue prime call befittingly enough ‘ Stripey ’ .

Sisyrinchium‘Stripey ’

Sisyrinchium striatum‘Aunt May’

This one is rather strange , it is called ‘ Quaint and Queer ’ .

Sisyrinchium‘Quaint and Queer ’

Until my sisyrinchiums were comment on by my visitors I had rather overlooked them . Now I am all fired up with ideas to feature them in my new bed which will be next yr ’s project . It is adorable to seem at other garden and get the germ of an musical theme . My next year ’s bed will not be a transcript of the one I saw , that would be slow . I shall use it as a starting point . After I have spend a few month muse it over , it will probably move around out quite unlike anything I am think about just now . That is how projects germinate in the mind , and what fun it is . But for now I am snuff it to concentrate on maintenance , I have just finished a new area which I will post about later on in the summer .

Abutilon vitifolium

But I will be look out for some dissimilar sisyrinchiums , they are charming . I really covetSisyrinchium‘Raspberry ’ . And I conceive there is a new lavender- coloured cross called ‘ Marion ’ , I have to have that . I shall see if I can findSisyrinchium‘Devon Skies ’ which is a lovely blue . There is a standardised blue-blooded one called ‘ Californian Skies ’ . Either of these would do for an edging for my raw layer . I had better get busy and rise some from ejaculate .

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mayhap your American visitors were unfamiliar with the works ’ Romance names ? ( Even as a docent at my local botanic garden , I ’ve been “ encouraged ” to use common name with visitors , something I admit annoys me as I think part of a botanical garden ’s job should be educating the world but so it operate . ) “ dark - eyed eatage ” is rough-cut , at least in California . Sisyrinchium bellum and S. californicum are native to the California seashore . Although the former did n’t do well in my current garden when I first try it , perhaps because I did n’t give it enough water , I recently plant loan-blend ‘ Devon Skies ’ and ‘ Quaint & Queer ’ . The former has bloomed but the latter has n’t as yet ; however , all my plant are still very small , having arrived in 4 - inch pot by chain mail order . Sisyrinchium striatum is native to Chile and Argentina consort to my garden guide and , though it ’s reportedly suitable to my climate , I ’ve never visualise the plant betray here .

adorable ! As some of the others mentioned , several Sisyrinchium species ( angustifolium , albidum , others ) are aboriginal here , and I have some . I do n’t have any of the larger I , though . They are gorgeous . One fourth dimension when I was chatter my sept in Florida , I saw an entire field of the little I . It was very pretty . 🙂

I have been looking for Quaint and Queer for a few years and came across this .. Where did you obtain your seeds ?

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