As a bonus, Blue False Indigo also attracts pollinators that can be beneficial to your vegetable garden along with butterflies. There is a caveat, however. This plant can be toxic to humans.

This plant native to the eastern part of North America grows best in zones 3 to 9. There are several alternate names for blue ...

Winnipeg Gardener reader Susan Southern began noticing a long, narrow bug feeding on the leaves of her blue false indigo plant a few summers ago. She sent a photo of the bug to Winnipeg Gardener ...

breathing new life into the deep hue known as Japan blue. He shares his thoughts on innovating indigo. He's dedicated to the ancient technique of using the leaves of the indigo plant to dye ...

Indigo factories were sited on river valleys for the water supply, and because indigo plants (several species of Indigofera) grow best in rich soils. Harsh working conditions in indigo fields and ...

People have been wearing blue jeans for centuries. Originally, the blue color came from a natural indigo dye. The dye was chosen for the way it interacted with cotton. When heated, most dyes ...

BLUE ALCHEMY Stories of Indigo is a featurelength documentary about indigo a blue dye that has captured the human imagination for millennia It is also about people who are reviving indigo in ...

Plants have a prostrate growth habitat. It naturally grows in mixed stands ... The ligule is truncated and has a fringe of hairs. Auricles are absent. Seed heads of Blue grama resemble a human eyebrow ...

Soon, these plants and flowers will be used to make ... and materials. Japanese indigo makes a deep blue dye, and flax gets turned into yarn for linen fabric. Hibiscus manihot roots and Japanese ...

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She followed it into a thicket of pines, where she discovered a patch of wild blue indigo hidden among the trees.

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...