Sissy What?
The great clean out of 2008 continues. Books are being listed on PaperbackSwap and donated to the local library for their book sales. Today boxes of books are going to a college in Tulsa for their graduate students' benefit. There are also short stacks of those magazines you get when you join plant societies. Each year I join a different one or two to see what's going on. In the October issue of the Iris Society Bulletin , there are 10 or 15 photos of Sisyrinchiums, otherwise known by names such as Blue Eyed Grass. One featured plant in the article, Olsynium junceum, has a pale pale lavender flower with deeper lavender stripes. Other names are: Sisyrinchium Quaint and Queer, E K Balls, Devon Skies, Rocky Point, and then several Latin names like S. striatum. Gotta love those. All of the Sisyrinchiums in these photos are available for purchase from Plant Delights Nursery online. The photos are theirs as well. Click to enlarge or go to their site. Characteristically, Sisyrinchiu...