False indigo (Baptisia australis) is prized for its stunning blue flowers. A long bloom season and resistance to pests make it a garden favorite.

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My wild blue indigo (Baptisia australis) has many seed pods. Can I harvest them and grow plants from the seed? Are there special tricks to germinating baptisia?

The indigo plant can be grown from seed fairly easily. The plant will grow best when it is kept very warm. It is a lovely plant to have in your home in a sunny location, but will not thrive very well outside. Here is some tips and hints for how to grow and care your indigo plant. #indigo #plant #growing #gardening

Although the popularity of the natural dye stalled when a synthetic dye was developed, picking indigo for dye is making a comeback. If you want to learn how to harvest indigo to make your own dye, click here. We’ll tell you how and when to pick indigo plants.

Thanks to an enterprising young woman, the Lowcountry enjoyed a short but lucrative stint exporting Indigofera tinctoria—and the beautiful blue dye extracted from its leaves—before the plant all but disappeared from our fields.

Noted for its long blooming season, Baptisia 'Midnight' is an upright perennial bearing a profusion of extremely long inflorescences, 24 in. (60 cm), bearing deep blue-violet flowers. Unlike most False Indigos, this plant has two bloom cycles within its blooming season. The first cycle produces long flower spikes up to 24 in. long in late spring. It is quickly followed by a second cycle, which produces blooms on secondary branches with inflorescences up to 5 in. long (12 cm), further…