Sisyrinchium striatum Giftware With expert advice from Kew

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

mulching plants also helps

After flowering

Plants can be divided in spring if they become woody and overgrown

just as the leaf buds are starting to swell

Sisyrinchium striatum Giftware With expert advice from KewAlso 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