Hibiscus House

Apr 25, 2025

Smooth Spiderwort a South Carolina Wildflower

These flowers have been around our homes for most of my life. I thought they were pretty and planted them around my playhouses as a child. I didn't know they were wildflowers.

I have such fond memories because when I married and moved away from our homeplace my daddy loaded up the bed of his truck with these and brought them over. What was so precious he didn't usually garden he was too busy in his auto body shop working, so that made it even more special.

Photo left is how most blooms look - Top right the Spiderwort is blooming in pink

Bottom right is how most look. They really are pretty

I brought some of those very plants over to Hibiscus House when we built here. The one pictured above and many more scatter across the landscape now.

The memories make them even more special!

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Our third South Carolina Native Plant highlight of the week is the Smooth Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis). This native plant can grow at 2-3 feet in height and is best known for its purple to rose-blue 3-petaled flowers. It is a self-seeding perennial in the right conditions and can fill an area quickly. The smooth spiderwort is the most common and widespread of the species in the United States. It may be used as a border plant and in woodland gardens, wildflower gardens or meadows. It can be used as a ground cover and naturalizes easily.

SC Native Plant Facts and Photos from the SCNPS website:

https://scnps.org/plants/tradescantia-ohiensis/

South Carolina Native Plant Society: SCNPS

Great Pollinator

Perennial

Propagation: by seed, cutting, or by division in early spring or fall

SC Native Plant Directory

A walk down memory lane for me plus now I have more information on a loved flower/wildflower

This will serve as a reminder to me of what the name is. I didn't know for the longest time. Ours is Smooth Spiderwort also known as Ohio Spiderwort.

To this day I call it Virginia Spiderwort which it isn't I'm told!

Have a great weekend!

Apr 18, 2025

He Arose

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“Why do you seek the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen!

He Is Risen

Luke 24 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ”

8 And they remembered His words.

9 Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles.

11 And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them.

12 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had

Read The Chapter Luke 24