Indigo plant

False indigo (Baptisia australis) is prized for its stunning blue flowers. A long bloom season and resistance to pests make it a garden favorite.

Indigofera tinctoria (True Indigo) ayurvedic usage

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Although the popularity of the natural dye stalled when a synthetic dye was developed, picking indigo for dye is making a comeback. If you want to learn how to harvest indigo to make your own dye, click here. We’ll tell you how and when to pick indigo plants.

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The indigo plant can be grown from seed fairly easily. The plant will grow best when it is kept very warm. It is a lovely plant to have in your home in a sunny location, but will not thrive very well outside. Here is some tips and hints for how to grow and care your indigo plant. #indigo #plant #growing #gardening

Noted for its long blooming season, Baptisia 'Midnight' is an upright perennial bearing a profusion of extremely long inflorescences, 24 in. (60 cm), bearing deep blue-violet flowers. Unlike most False Indigos, this plant has two bloom cycles within its blooming season. The first cycle produces long flower spikes up to 24 in. long in late spring. It is quickly followed by a second cycle, which produces blooms on secondary branches with inflorescences up to 5 in. long (12 cm), further…

THE KINDCRAFT expains the step-by-step process in making natural indigo dye from plant to paste in Thailand.

Blue Indigo plant (Baptisia australis) blossoms are blue or purple and appear on tall flower spikes, blooms six weeks in spring early summer [DETAILS]

Thanks to an enterprising young woman, the Lowcountry enjoyed a short but lucrative stint exporting Indigofera tinctoria—and the beautiful blue dye extracted from its leaves—before the plant all but disappeared from our fields.

The popular color “indigo” is named after several plants in the genus Indigofera famous for the natural blue obtained from the plant leaves. Some varieties are used medicinally, while others are beautiful and ornamental. Learn about different indigo plants here.

Being able to grow indigo plants from seed is a wonderful way to acquire more for the garden. Learn how to do just that in this guide on Gardener’s Path.

INDIGO DYE is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color. Historically, Indigo was a natural dye extracted from the leaves of certain plants and this process was important economically because blue dyes were once rare. A variety of plants have provided indigo throughout history. But, most natural indigo was obtained from those in the genus Indigofera which are native to the tropics, notably the indian sub-continent.

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