Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Uruguay the bright yellow

the bright yellow

so we've temporarily given it a new name

interspersed in late fall and again in late winter/early spring with fragrant dark purple flowers nestled just below the leaf tips

thick green fronds with stunning white backs line the black stipe

Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Uruguay the bright yellowWe've grown Indigofera kirilowii for nearly 30 years, and assumed it all looked about the same as the 18" tall form we grew oh, were we wrong. In 2014, when visiting the Cincinnati Zoo, Director of Horticulture, Steve Foltz, showed me their clone, which came from the late plantsman, Buddy Hubbuch, at Kentucky's Bernheim Arboretum. There it grew, 5' tall heart be still! Since Indigofera kirilowii has a huge range from outer Mongolia south into Japan