u/IntroductionNaive773

Many years ago I discovered some lawn grass with random white striping in some of the leaves. It took multiple years of culling reversions and albino shoots, but eventually a stable margined form sported and I was able to isolate it and grow it on. A few more years of propagation and evaluation showed it to be a really robust plant. I grew the original clumps in my full sun gravel driveway where they thrived. The variegation pops, the flowers are pure white, and if the plant ever looks tired later in the season I just mow it back for a refresh.

What I'm most excited about is this is the first plant I've ever officially released into the mass market through Walters Gardens. I can't wait to see a plant I discovered in a garden center for the first time.

It took me the better part of 20 years to find this cultivar after I first saw it pictured in college. And naturally what happens after I find it? I work on a clients property a handful of years later that is swimming in it.

I've never been able to discover its origin, but I'm thinking the mutation first appeared somewhere in Europe since most offerings of the cultivar are on European websites. If I were a betting man I'd wager that it is a cross between the standard blue-eyed f. priceana (pictured) and the magenta flowered sororia f. rubra given that the color is an exact match.