Hybrid

What madness possessed us to make this esoteric cross between the usual maroon flowered species and the white flowered form? Consequences of a very liberal drug and alcohol policy is perhaps the best guess. Unflowered seedlings which will be either typical maroon pleianthum, typical white pleianthum f. alba or shades in between. We can definitively say the flowers will not be blue.

Golden False Indigo. Our introduction of this eye-catching Baptisa with golden yellow leaves and dusky midnight purple flowers. We've opted not to mass-produce this by the gazillions like other Baptisia but are propagating this ourselves in small numbers to keep this special and collectable. Doubtless we're better with plants than business! 'IndiGold' is a play on Indigo and that we are a small independent nursery. These are young plants and Baptisia of all sorts can take some time to reach flowering size but are long-lived and simply get better with each passing year. This has held its yellow color well during the summer in our garden.

One of the best of the hybrids, this Silk Tassle bush is a cross between Garrya elliptica and G. fremontii. It has nice rounded evergreen leaves with catkins 8"-10" long in shades of green and purple in the winter. Just when SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder - ratchets up, Carl talks us down from the ledge. Tough plant and tolerant of some dry.