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Baptisia australis |
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| Common name |
false indigo |
| Family |
fabaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
blue |
| Light |
sun |
| Seed ripens | mid-July |
Most gardeners who grow just one species of baptisia grow this one. True enough, this was the first one we purchased, too - except that our plant turned out to have white flowers, and be B. alba var. alba instead. Since then, our efforts to produce the masses of blue flowers of the more common species have been long in waiting: we grew several plants from seed a good number of years ago, but they stayed small year after year. Finally, this year they decided to grow bigger and actually bloom. Of course I had to follow their progress from buds to flowers. With a bit of luck, they'll be as big and billowing as specimens I've seen in other gardens sometime in the futureyear...
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: driveway bed Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
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August 10, 2009
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