BAPTISIA ‘American Goldfinch’ $22.95 2.5’ x 3’ z4 False Indigo Golden-yellow flower spikes. The perfect specien for filling large spaces in the garden and for mass plantings. Blooms late spring to early summer and then leaves behind attractive dark seed pods that linger through fall.. Blue-green foliage. This native cultivar was bred for its shorter height. New. Photo: Source BAPTISIA australis $12.95 4' x 3' z 3 False Indigo Deep indigo-blue flowers on 10"-long racemes bloom early summer on a tall, robust, shrub-like plant. The flowers appear just after the spring bulbs, but before most other perennials. Attractive, clover-like blue-green foliage. Interesting, long, dark black seed pods appear late summer to fall. A tough, goodlooking shrubby native for the wild garden, a dry, sunny hillside or the back of the perennial border. Grow in full sun to part shade in any welldrained soil, from very dry to medium-wet. Excellent guests - they’re not heavy drinkers and will fix their own food, which means they’ll bloom well in poor soil. And they look good from spring to fall (if I could just say that about our human visitors). We find baptisia follow the sleep, creep, leap rule - they take a while to settle in, but pay back with an explosion of bloom. Very good plants for native gardens; they will naturalize to form bushy thickets with a stunning floral display. Photo courtesy Walters Gardens, Inc BAPTISIA ‘Twilite Prairieblues’’ 5' x 3'-5' z4 $12.95 A wonderful variety with violet-purple flowers and contrasting vivid lemon-yellow keels which open from purple buds. Bred for its vigour and flower power, this baptisia will produce 100 or more flowering stems when mature. Pretty, even when it's not in bloom, with blue green foliage; a vigorous, shrubby form, and showy, long, charcoal-black seed pods which are present from fall into winter. A complex cross between B. australis and B. sphaerocarpa, introduced through the non-profit breeding program at the Chicago Botanical Garden. (2-gal) Photo courtesy Walters Gardens, Inc www.wild-things.ca 18 1-877-538-3228