Indigofera incarnata 'Alba' 24/9 Restock Aspidistra vietnamensis 'Amanogawa' carries narrow

Aspidistra vietnamensis 'Amanogawa' carries narrow

a nod to the broad

spicebush is a three-season native with an outsized ecological return

brightening forest floors long before gardeners thought to give the plant a place at home

Indigofera incarnata 'Alba' 24/9 Restock Aspidistra vietnamensis 'Amanogawa' carries narrowNo genus carries more Carolina history in its name than this one. Indigofera means indigo bearing, and indigo was the blue that built the colonial Lowcountry: in the 1740s a young Eliza Lucas Pinckney coaxed a successful crop out of the land around Charleston, and for a generation the dye stood second only to rice among the colony's exports, made with skill drawn largely from enslaved West Africans, until the Revolution cut the British bounty and the