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

Although a short-lived perennial lasting between 3-5 years

long-blooming plant for the edge of ponds or streams

but a well drained soil

Sisyrinchium striatum Giftware but they do like aAlso 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