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 ...

Plant bearberry and watch its green leaves turn reddish-purple in autumn ... Catmint serves a greater purpose – it gives back to the ecosystem by attracting beneficial insects like butterflies and ...

harvesting and processing of Indigo suffruticosa, a robust plant that flourishes in the tropics and produces a deep, cherished ocean-blue color, one of humankind’s oldest dyes. Image Leigh Magar ...

More and more gardeners are adding native plants to their landscapes. These plants pro­vide more than beautiful flow­ers for us to enjoy. They also support pollinators and other beneficial insects, ...

Amorpha canescens is a wonderful short hedge that can help define the landscape or be used as a specimen plant in desert-themed xeriscapes ... As a bonus, the flowers can used for creating a blue dye ...

However, the most valuable part of the plant is its root, which, after proper processing, yields the indigo dye (blue-violet) ...