Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock and the airy purple spikes

and the airy purple spikes rise well above the glossy leaves just as the summer garden starts to tire

is the rare pink-flowered hybrid of the group

standing at attention in the shade while everything around leans

cold-hardy trifoliate orange

belonging instead to the Cistaceae

Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock and the airy purple spikesTed Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana calls this one of his top ten favorite plants, and the reason is bloom. Indigofera amblyantha, the pink indigo, is a fast, airy, deciduous shrub from the streambanks of central China, a nitrogen fixing legume in the vast genus Indigofera, and one of the longest flowering hardy shrubs a Southern garden can grow. The genus carries real history. Indigofera means indigo bearing, and the dye that colored the colonial