In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history ...

It's so easy to get swept up in the allure of non-native bulbs like tulips and daffodils when planning for spring flowers, but there's a whole world of native perennials that deserve your attention!

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 ...

The electric-blue trumpets of Asiatic gentians blast away the autumn gloom. Hazel Sillver looks at which of these ...

More and more gardeners are adding native plants to their landscapes. These plants provide more than beautiful flowers for us ...

More and more gardeners are adding native plants to their landscapes. These plants provide more than beautiful flowers for us ...

More and more gardeners are adding native plants to their landscapes. These plants provide more than beautiful flowers for us ...

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 ...

Native species include: blue wild Indigo, yarrow, lanceleaf coreopsis, common milkweed, coneflower, asters, black eyed susans, lupine and columbine. The Farm's prairie restoration project began in the ...

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 ...

By building garden boxes, I can plant my own crops, which I can cook into meals. Wild Indigo Ranch has a similar food system to Valheim, another excellent survival crafter. I can eat up to three ...

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 ...