Sparkling Sapphires Baptisia (False Indigo) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial

Flower Color:  Vivid Violet-Blue

Flower Size:  .5 to 1″ 

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type:  Pea-like

Fragrant Flowers:  –

Foliage Color:  Blue-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  –

Berries:  Attractive seed pods

Berry Color:  Brown

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Pollinators

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Clay Soil, Dry Soil, Poor Soil, Rabbit

With a flower color that will stop you in your tracks, and a very long-lived perennial that anyone can grow, ‘Sparkling Sapphires’ is a fine selection in the superior Decadence Baptisia Series. From late spring to early summer, intensely vivid violet-blue pea-like flowers are held on strong scapes above the attractive blue-green foliage. Relatively short for a Baptisia (2.5 to 3′), the well-branched stems form a bushy, upright spreading mound making it a good candidate for the middle of the perennial flower border. After the flowers come ornamental seed pods that extend the season of interest into fall. Kids will love to shake and rattle the seed pods!

 

The roots of the DECADENCE® series run deep. What started as a fun botanizing trip in the lower Midwest with a fellow horticulturist blossomed into a complex hybridizing project for breeder Hans Hansen. Hans has made countless crosses with the many native Baptisia species he has collected across Texas and Oklahoma. These crosses have resulted in an array of seedlings with unique flower colors and plant habits. Only the very best have made it into the new DECADENCE® Series, which includes varieties selected for their desirable flower colors and shorter, more compact habit.

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