Tradescantia, Spiderwort, Virginia Spiderwort, Lady's Tears 'Zwanenburg Blue'

An aggressive, high-maintenance perennial grown for its long season of bloom.

Individual flowers last only a day, and whi...Read Morele flowering goes on over a long season, the accumulating black deadheads make the inflorescence look ugly within a week. It isn't practical to deadhead each flower individually---you need to cut the stem to the ground. The plant will respond well to cutting back with more stems and often more flowers.

The habit is leggy and sprawling. Plants need cutting back frequently.

This is a tough weedy plant that can spread aggressively by self-sowing. Resistant to glyphosate, and very difficult to dig out completely, as plants can regenerate from small bits of root.

To keep it looking acceptable, this plant requires more work than it's worth, in my opinion. This plant has been heavily promoted far beyond its garden value. It looks like the pictures only briefly, and looks a mess for most of the season. There are too many better garden plants to bother with this one.

Most cultivars are Tradescantia x andersonia, a group of complex hybrids developed from T. virginiana, T. ohioensis, and T. subaspera.

This Spiderwort was a a rescue from a garage sale, and am I ever glad we found each other. Now I know the beauty of Spiderworts and have...Read More added them to the perennial garden whenever I find them in the nurseries. Here on Vancouver Island they bloom from May to frost in October. SUPERB plant for this climate. Lots of mulch keeps their soil moist and makes them very happy.

I so love this plant! I bought it on a whim, because I loved the color of the blossom, never guessing that it would present me with a flo...Read Morewer or two a day all summer long, although I ignored it. I had just stuck it in below a large rhododendron, where it only got direct sun after 2 or 3 in the afternoon. What a treat!

Love the color of this flower! I've found this to be a very reliable bloomer that wears itself out by mid-July, but if cut down to almos...Read Moret ground level and watered sufficiently will put on a big fall show of repeat blooms. The foliage is attractive and different than anything else I have in my garden, too.