Description
The Blue false indigo should become a familiar sight for more gardens. With its blue lupin-like flowers and blue-green foliage, the false indigo is an excellent perennial plant for dry to medium soils, in full sun locations; but also adapts well in light shade. It flowers for a long period of time in the summer and a mature clump has a round, shrubby appearance; can be lightly pruned. The pods are ornamental and can be used in dry arrangements.
A long lived, hardy, drought tolerant plant & great for pollinators. What more can you ask from the blue indigo?!
Common name origin: the roots were used by the Cherokee Indigenous People and early settlers to prepare a blue dye.
Germination: warm germinator; best results if the seeds are first treated with hot water or soaked in warm water for few days, or scarified (with sandpaper). Even so the seeds are slow to germinate and the seedlings will be slow growing in the first season; they will pick up the pace in the next years. Using a sowing mix with mycorrhiza inoculum may give better results.
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