New flower! It’ll look better when there’s a big clump all flowering at once, but teased open the first Sisyrinchium angustifolium bloom!
Common named Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass, this isn’t a grass at all but a wet meadow-loving Iris relative. With thin Iris like leaves the relationship is obvious, and one plant in typically mid spring once put outside in appropriate seasons will send up several stalks each supporting several inch-wide, metallic indigo blooms with yellow centers. En masse, they are breathtaking. There are many species in this genus, some of which even have white or all-yellow flowers, and I used to have a second species from the Atlantic coastal plain but sadly it crashed outside and new seeds refused to sprout…but this one is doing well, so well that there are even flower stalks forming on a few of the ones in the for-sale pot (yes, these are currently available in the website Shop!).

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