Baptisia australis, commonly called blue false indigo, is an underused perennial in Midwestern gardens. It is low maintenance, drought tolerant, deer resistant, adaptable and easy to grow.

As gardeners, we’re often on the lookout for low-maintenance plants with colorful flower displays. One such plant that is ...

The 2010 Perennial Plant of the Year is Baptisia australis, also called blue false indigo. It's not new, but it's underrepresented in many perennial gardens. It grows upright, about 3 to 4 feet ...

In the case of blue false indigo ( Baptisia australis) , the win is Perennial Plant of the Year. As has been the case since the program began in 1991, the award-winner has everything going for it.

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) 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 ...

Gardeners on the lookout for low-maintenance, disease-resistant, deer-resistant plants with beautiful flowers, consider Baptisia, known as wild indigo.

Members of the Perennial Plant Association selected blue false indigo (Baptisia australis) as Plant of the Year for 2010, and I second the emotion. This easy-to-grow wildflower shows off in late ...

The common name refers to its use by Native Americans and early settlers as a substitute for the true, and much superior, blue indigo dye plant of the West Indies Indigofera tinctoria.

The Perennial Plant Association has selected Blue False Indigo (Babtisia australis) as their Perennial Plant of the Year. This is a hardy perennial and grows 3-4 feet tall with an upright habit.

I had planted one Baptisia Aurealis (Blue False Indigo) in April last year, and I already had one that had returned and bloomed from the previous year. However instead of staying green they ended ...