Tradescantia Tomorrow

As I mentioned yesterday, the Spiderwort I’ve encountered in southwest Missouri have flowers varying from light blue to vibrant purple.  I was able to capture the blue flowers well yesterday, but today I’m sharing the purple flowers of a native Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis ?).

Tradescantia Today

Today I visited family in southwest Missouri prior to going to a friend’s wedding.  My mother’s land is full of native wildflowers…some in their appropriate places, others precariously positioned near horse trampling grounds.  For years we’ve been translating a handful of them to a flower garden in the front yard…in an attempt at a native