Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock belonging instead to the Cistaceae

belonging instead to the Cistaceae

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

where the fine rosette and tall flower wands read against stone

Native to eastern Asia

Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock belonging instead to the CistaceaeTed 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