PH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly AlkalineĪcidic or Strongly Acidic - pH less than 5.5 Mildly Acidic - pH 5.6-6.5 Neutral - pH 6.6-7.3 Mildly Alkaline - pH 7.4-8.4 Alkaline or Strongly Alkaline pH higher than 8.4. Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part shade, Part sunįull Sun - 8 hours or more of direct sunlight Partial Sun or Partial Shade - 4-6 hours of direct sunlight AM Sun or Morning Sun or Cool Sunlight - cool sunlight but usually in the shade during the heat of the day Light Shade - Bright indirect sunlight for much of the day Filtered Shade - may receive some amount of direct moving sunlight like through trees but usually not for any extended period especially during the heat of the day Shade - no or very little direct sunlight, especially not during the heat of the day. If you do not know your zone you can find it by clicking on the " USDA Cold Hardiness Zones" link here or above. For more on stretching your cold hardiness zones see the " "Growing on the Edge Growing Guide". Our zones do not always agree but we try to use our own experience as to what can be depended on to return or have known reputable gardens and or horticulturists to reliably grow that plant in zones that are usually colder but sometimes warmer than what other resources have available. Each zone is separated by 10 oF and the map was updated in 2012. And these are averages, here in zone 8B ('A' represents the colder half of a zone and 'B' represents the warmer half of the zone and they are separated by about 5 oF) we have seen single digits but that is the exception but should be noted by the daring gardener. USDA Cold Hardiness Zones were established to give gardeners, horticulturists, farmers, nurseries, and landscape architects a universal way to describe where a plant will survive with regard to average winter lows for a region. Under poor growing conditions plants may be slightly to significantly smaller, whereas excellent growing conditions can produce larger more vigorous plants. Parentheses are used to indicate that the plant can potentially reach that dimension, although the sizes outside of the parentheses tend to be more typical. Feet are represented by a single quote and inches by a double quote. This is the average expected mature height by width in feet or inches. Periodic division will provide you with more plants for the garden as well as to keep this perennial in top form but it is not required. Purple-Eyed Grass is an evergreen perennial in our zone 8B gardens. Provide a full sun to partly shaded site in average to well-drained soils. The flowers are likely mainly bee pollinated and the plants can reseed though it never seems do so aggressively and unwanted seedlings are easily removed. Use the Blue-Eyed Grasses, or Purple-Eyed in this case, near the front of the perennial border, tuck them among the rock garden as an accent, as an informal border along paths, as well as part of naturalistic settings with other plants of similar size. It has narrow strap-like upright to arching, deep green foliage in typical flat, iris-like fans on an evergreen, clump-forming perennial that readily multiplies into 6-10"H x 8-12"W plants. Purple-Eyed Grass is a selection of one of our native Blue-Eyed Grasses, the Sisyrinchiums, that was originally shared with us by Dawn Stover, then of SFA Gardens and now with SFA's Pineywoods Native Plant Center. The dainty 3/4" wide, iris-like flowers open a deep purple, lighten through mauve, and into light lavender shades and are produced for weeks in spring.
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