Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock is the rare pink-flowered hybrid

is the rare pink-flowered hybrid of the group

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

and let the fertile flowers feed bees and butterflies through summer

four or five feet

belonging instead to the Cistaceae

Indigofera amblyantha 25/9 Restock is the rare pink-flowered hybridTed 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