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kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 16, 2009
10:08 PM Post #6698500
| I found this little guy near the front door.
At first look, before seeing the flowers on it, I just thought it was crab grass as I walked past it. But then I spotted the pretty blue flowers that it has on the ends of the blades, so I checked it out closer. The blades are much stiffer then grass would be. And I have never seen any grass blossom like this.
Anyone know what this one is?
Will post a couple of pictures.
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kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 16, 2009
10:09 PM Post #6698509
| another picture 
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kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 16, 2009
10:11 PM Post #6698516
| And another.
I bagged the dead blossom to catch the seeds.
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wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
June 16, 2009
10:19 PM Post #6698562
| Blue eyed grass - Sisyrinchium montanum
This message was edited Jun 16, 2009 9:20 PM |
Sunshines2day
Lubbock, TX
(Zone 7a)
June 16, 2009
10:37 PM Post #6698677
| I've never seen anything like that...curious. |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
June 16, 2009
10:38 PM Post #6698690
| Agree with the blue eyed grass. Congratulations! |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 16, 2009
11:27 PM Post #6698906
| Thank You, Thank You, Thank you!
Now, where did the little guy come from is a question that will never be answered.
But I like it :) |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
June 18, 2009
12:18 AM Post #6703903
| I love surprise visitors (free? why yes!) it's like a Christmas present isn't it? |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 18, 2009
10:56 AM Post #6705464
| It sure is like a Christmas Present. He is at my boyfriends house, that's where I found him, and I told him to make sure he doesn't mow him off!!! |
wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
June 18, 2009
11:40 AM Post #6705739
| Better pot that baby up asap. Once it is no longer in bloom, it will seem just like grass to a man. Trust me, I know what I am talking about. My hubby is notorious for mowing over things he mistakes for weeds, etc. Good luck! |
wannadanc
Olympia, WA
June 18, 2009
11:44 AM Post #6705759
| I even purchased this at a nursery years ago ...but I forgot about it during a weeding session. Even women can commit this crime ...it isn't a gender thing, trust me. |
wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
June 18, 2009
11:56 AM Post #6705839
| Oh, I know that. Every year I find out, after the fact, that I have "weeded" out self sown plants I had grown and loved the past year. It makes me so mad at myself. I keep thinking it will get better. Still, I seem to do it every year, just not with the same plants. |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 18, 2009
12:48 PM Post #6706055
| I'll pot him up as soon as he stops blooming, and I do have the seeds that are on 2 of the blades bagged waiting for them to fall off. I think that bag will give him a little hint that it is there for a reason, just like the bags that are over the seeds on his Grape Hyacinth's (now that I know what they are). And I may have to have him put a cage over it if he lets his chickens out again. They really love the wild rose bush blossoms. I don't know what they would do with this grass.
And actually, he does like flower and was glad to hear about it. He had some of the same flowers that I have, so mine have moved there to join his :) And he had some I had never seen, and I told him what his current bush was...LOL He only lived there for over 20 years and had no idea what that bush was that had red berries. It was rather funny when we walked past it and he said "I don't know what that bush is", and I said "current".
He did introduce me to mulberries. I had never had them before I met him. Yummm
And here is one of my favorite flowers that he introduced me to.
A pink peony poppy :)
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wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
June 18, 2009
07:27 PM Post #6707833
| That's a beautiful flower! Are you saving seeds from it? I would love to have a few. |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
June 19, 2009
11:53 AM Post #6710582
| Hi wyldeflwr,
I have seeds from last fall yet, and this years are getting close to blooming, so yes, I have seeds. I have then in all different stages of growth right now. The ones at my boyfriends place are smaller, but then he is an hour north of me, so that makes a difference.
Contacted me by D-mail and we can get something set up :)
Even if you collect the seeds, they still tend to seed themselves. |
wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
July 03, 2009
12:32 AM Post #6771433
| Kassy, check out the Todays Articles - Blue eyed grass by Marie Harrison on the front page. |
themoonhowl
Prairieville, LA
(Zone 9a)
July 03, 2009
11:53 AM Post #6772618
| Kassy, I could not help laughing to myself when I saw your picture. You know the old saying about trash and treasures? I have revamped it to: One gardener's weed is another gardener's treasure. Blue-eyed Prairie grass comes up all over the lawn here every spring. It is spread by birds and here, the mower. We don't use weed and feed on the lawn so it has become well established...blooms in the spring
and sometime during the late summer goes dormant. I see it offered in a number of seed catalogues.
Jean |
icanfindroom
Anchorage, AK
July 03, 2009
01:29 PM Post #6772950
| LOL! That's funny. The only time I've had blue eyed grass I had to pay $5 for it ;)
True, every plant is a weed somewhere. |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 03, 2009
02:46 PM Post #6773189
| Where, Where, where, Wyldflwr??
I work nights, so I probably missed it :(
Stop laughing, themoonhowl :p ...LOL, just kidding. But here that is a rare find especially when you don't have to pay for it :). Do you think maybe one of your birds came to visit us and brought it all the way here? Because I don't think your lawnmower did ...LOL
We need to send some seeds from it to icanfindroom, after all, she can find room :) |
themoonhowl
Prairieville, LA
(Zone 9a)
July 03, 2009
05:10 PM Post #6773723
| Maybe I should stop mowing and start collecting seed. I can see it now...Moonhowl's THE source for Prairie Blue eye grass. LOL.
Although, you have to give the little plant credit...South Louisiana is nearly as far as you can get from Anchorage, Alaska...what a growing range.
Jean |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 03, 2009
05:41 PM Post #6773827
| Hey moonhowls,
Yes, you need to stop mowing and collect those seeds. People out there want them. Add it to your trades list. I see you have the Siberian Iris. I have that one too and a ton of seeds that I will probably be putting back into the ground this year so it can expand more. I did trade some of the seeds and a part of the plant to one person this spring.
But I would really think about collecting some of the blue eyed grass seeds. That way you don't have to mow either ;-)
And since we are talking about weeds. Let me mention that my boyfriend found Dame's Rocket 2 years ago, and won't let me pull it out. Little by little small parts of the plant are disapearing, and he doesn't even know it. he he he he |
wyldeflwr
Laurel, MD
(Zone 7a)
July 04, 2009
05:10 AM Post #6775700
| Kassy, go to Guides and Information at the top of the page and click on that. Scroll down until you get to the section titled "Articles". Click on that and scroll down to Thursday, July 2. There is where you will find the article I mentioned.
Hugs, Shirley |
themoonhowl
Prairieville, LA
(Zone 9a)
July 04, 2009
10:46 AM Post #6776519
| Kassy, It sounds like you might have to have a "pruning accident" on the Rocket..."But honey I read somewhere that root pruning was good for them..."
Have a good Fourth.
Jean |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 04, 2009
05:27 PM Post #6777917
| Thank You Shirley...I would have never found it. Will go there soon to check it out.
Moon, I'm going to have a pruning accident on it as much as I can. LOL. The bad thing is though, it'a at his house and he likes it :-| And he inspected it recently and knows where the seeds on it are :-| So he can keep it. I just don't want it taking over my flower bed. It's bad enought I have hollyhocks that think they are going to take it over, and the older daylillies in yellow and red that look alot likek the ditchlillies want to take it over too.
Oh and I have a hugh sage plant of HIS thinking it can take over too...sheeesh
This is HIS Dame's Rocket
See the little one by the post? That one is gone now :) LOL, sassy me.
The post actually holds a bird house, and we have some very pretty blue birds in it and they have babies right now, so I can't go into my flower bed much. They get upset.
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kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 04, 2009
07:35 PM Post #6778318
| I went and read the article on it. Hmmmmmmmm
It said you have to be paying attention and taking in the details to find it. I guess I was trained in that and thats why I saw it and my boyfriend didn't (have taken care of the elderly and now take care of developmentally disabled. So I have been trained to pay attention)
But the little one really seems to go against one of the things mentioned in the article. It said that Blue-eyed grass gets along quite nicely in ordinary, well-drained but moist garden soil...The one I found came up in and area that doesn't get watered except when it rains. :-|
It said seeds are best planted as soon as they are ripe... OK better check the seeds that are bagged when I get up there again. I Had just bagged another one last time I was there.
Hmmmmm, it says to Combine it with other low-growing groundcovers like creeping thyme or dwarf sedum...I do have the sedum, but that bed is pretty full, and some of that sedum really sreads. I also have the small grape hyacinthus in that bed.
Seeds are attractive to prairie chickens...YIKES, e-mail boyfriend and tell him to keep chickens away from it!!!
Also...many medicinal uses have been found for blue-eyed grass. Hmmmmm, do I really want to even tell him this one? I may not have a plant left if I do, as he likes plants like that...Hmmmmmmmm
Hope this come through
Happy 4th of July eveyone
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1221321706636... |
Sunshines2day
Lubbock, TX
(Zone 7a)
July 04, 2009
09:59 PM Post #6778837
| You folks are making me think I MUST have this plant. It is a little gem. |
kassy_51
Pulaski, WI
(Zone 4b)
July 04, 2009
10:10 PM Post #6778876
| The blue eyed grass Sunshines?
See Moonhowl, I told you there are people out there who want it!
Sunshines, it just showed up at my boyfriends front door steps unannounced. I had no clue as to what was, so had to post the pictures of it to find out.
We have no idea where it came from, other then one of one of Moonhowl birds brought it to us as a gift :)
Let me get it well established, and I will be more then willing to share it :) |
