Do you know this plant?

[Memmey]

Have any of you planted pink indigo? I want to add that one to the "Most Wanted" list.:D Check your gardening books for it. The flower looks like a minature wisteria bloom and it seems to make a colony , airy shrublike. I have it in deep shade but it prefers soft sun. The more sun it gets the denser it will be. . If you know it you may want to add to the description. Do you think it a good plant? I have it growing around a live oak with walking fern at it's feet. When it's in bloom I always get requests for a piece of it. Do you know it? Lastley I planted a gardenia in deep shade and it grows wonderful, slightly less dense but no affect on the flowers, they a big like a small saucer. Do you have any deep shade recommendations?

[RoseMary]

I do not know that plant and cannot find it in my limited amount of flower books. It sounds very pretty and I hope someone has more information about it. It is hard for me to find anything to grow in deep shade. I have three large water oaks around my house and the only thing that seems to grow well around them (and up them) is poison ivy:( . I would love to know more pretty plants to plant beneath them. I do have some ferns around one, but the late afternoon sun hits them for about forty minutes and always burns them to a crisp by mid-summer.

I think I will try gardenia in the shade--I didn't think they would grow there.

[Memmey]

RM I have my gardenis planted under a live oak also. I planted it as a little baby and it managed to grow a good root system. I didn't dig a very deep hole actually very very shallow because it was a cutting. I just left it alone and now it's over 6 feet tall and gets covered in blooms. There again it not as dense,not enough light to support alot of leaves but it stills blooms. You know white flowers in the evening is so pretty they glow. That makes me think of the moonvine for in the evening, you know that vine?



check on line at the gardening sites for pink indigo that's not its scientific name LOL

[RoseMary]

Yes, I know moonvine--very lovely. I would like to plant a moon garden sometime--do you have one? I've never seen one, but I can imagine all those white blooms glowing in the moonlight. I had planned to start one last year with a white rose I bought, but the rose bush died before it ever really got started and I just sort of let the whole project go.

I started to ask you if pink indigo had another name, but forgot. I will look it up--it sounds lovely.