Brighten your garden with companion plants that bring year-round interest next to blue false indigo. These eye-catching ...

You have found the delightful perennial known as Baptisia (Baptisia x bap-TIS-ee-uh) or false indigo. The yellow form that you see is a Baptisia named Carolina Moonlight for it was discovered at ...

If you need more convincing about its merits, blue false indigo garnered the attention of horticulturists when it won the Perennial Plant Association's Plant of the Year Award in 2010.

The Perennial Plant Association has selected Blue False Indigo (Babtisia australis) as their Perennial Plant of the Year.

Not all native plants are unruly and wild-looking. Some are neat and tidy and fit well into a conventional perennial garden. False indigo, Baptisia sp., is one example of how a wild plant can be ...

False indigo attracts butterflies and is rabbit- and deer-resistant. This plant has a long taproot and is best left undisturbed once planted. It prefers well-drained soil and is drought-tolerant.

Solar Flare false indigo (Baptisia ‘Solar Flare’) is a lovely late-spring-blooming perennial. The blue-green foliage is rubbery in texture, with three leaflets known as trifoliate. In May, 12 ...

New varieties take the perennial even higher — and now is a great time to plant one.

Baptisia thrives in the sun, needs no fertilizer or fussing, and after blooming, it stands like a lovely shrub or hedge through summer and fall.

Put the words "low-maintenance" and "beauty" together in a sentence about a plant, and you know it's a winner. In the case of blue false indigo ( Baptisia australis) , the win is Perennial Plant ...

) is the 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year. Each year the growers, landscape architects and designers of the choose a plant that deserves more attention, is easily obtained and easily grown; has a ...