Frog Eyes & Sand Pears

I’m bracing myself for a cold, wet day at Goodness Grows nursery. Plant shopping is fun until the day turns bad. But the show must go on as the next 4 days of planting depend on today’s shopping — wet feet and all.

One plant on my list is Tradescantia; which I learned as spiderwort. All week, while I’ve been working on my list, someone has been emailing me; trying to figure out what a plant they love is. They call it frog eyes.

I woke yesterday with a revelation; somewhere in my life I’d run into to someone who referred to Tradescantia as frog eyes! Voila!

Tradescantia aka frog eyes and spiderwort

Thanks for the photo and new word Erin Taylor!   Now, to explain a really old name that I used on Clemson Your Day radio show about planting your yard with edibles and fruit trees— Sand Pear.   I was planting pears and persimmon trees with young man who said his grandmother used that term.   Who else knows it?