Sisyrinchium striatum Giftware After flowering

After flowering

it is also a perfect choice for beside a stream or pond

just as the leaf buds are starting to swell

With expert advice from Kew bulb expert Richard Wilford and the Kew Gardens team

Sisyrinchium striatum Giftware After floweringAlso known as Pale Yellow Eye Grass this perennial forms tufts of long swordlike grey green foliage. In late spring or early summer, it produces multiple spikes of small, pale yellow flowers with golden centres and thin pale mauve stripes on the outer edges of the petals that rise above the foliage. When flowering finished Sisyrinchium produces attractive black seed pods. Each flower will open for just one day with the morning sun and then closes