Baptisia might be the best landscape perennial and we need to talk about it more | Walters Gardens
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- ✔️ Tolerates heat
✔️ Tolerates drought
✔️ Tolerates heavy clay soils
✔️ Tolerates sandy soils
✔️ Salt Tolerant
✔️ Long lived
✔️ Easy to grow
✔️ Pollinator friendly
✔️ North American Native perennial
Must be a Baptisia!
I love them. Pretty much a zero maintenance plant. Nothing to do but enjoy them.
I very much agree. Two qualities I particularly appreciate:
1. It has deep roots. That's advantageous for all the reasons you mention, but also for gardens that deal with jumping worms (and the reason I'm adding many more to my garden).
2. The foliage is beautiful and works well in cut flower bouquets.
I have those nasty worms too and it sucks so bad.. many of my plants are beginning to shrink each year as they feed on the roots and organic material I keep buying for them to turn into coffee grounds
@@LovelyIslandVacation-ch6wo Do you get Japanese beetles in the summer?
@@julietmurphy8637 yeah
I already liked this plant, but after listening to Tony Avent and Michael Dirr talk about them, I'm in love 🥰 I'm trying multiple cultivars, and I'm growing some from collected seeds too, to see what I get! The leaves last so long in the vase as a foliage
Wow. The nicest baptisia I’ve ever seen.
One of my all time favourite spring bloomers. I use them as almost centre pieces with under planting. I am about to plant 7 as a hedge. They are white and I will be under planting with burgandy coral bells. So easy, so reliable and I often use the stems with leaves as fillers in arrangements. Similar tone to eucalyptus and a good vase life.
Love baptisia, but seriously felt like they bloomed for less than a week this year! 😭
They are blooming when queen bumble bees are looking for pollen so the flowers get used up first.
Wow. Thank you for the information on this plant!!!
I’m going to be adding more Baptisia to my garden. 💐💚🙃
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@@mapndo2337 yes darn autocorrect. Plus I’m not a great speller anymore . Thanks for the correction.💐💚🙃
I very much agree! I have several different species in my landscape and welcome their early spring blooms!
For the first time my Cherries Jubilee splayed after a heavy rain. I had to tie them up. They’re about 4 years old.
my favorite plant.
I have the species version baptista australis; all the cultivars were not around when I got it.
I used to not care too much about it. "The bloom time is too short! " I love the flowers but now I love other things about it too.
In time, I started to focus more on foliage. I really do love the foliage-the shape/form of the leaves; and they turn more of a blue-green color as the season progresses. (Well mine does) I also like its big mounded form that is like a shrub.
It's a really dependable, easy plant that performs well in my crappy clay soil.
How is their performance as host plants for butterflies? Or would I be better off going with straight species?
How many years old are those plants?
My only holdback on baptisia is how they look after blooming. But they sure are spectacular in the spring.
It looks like a blue green shrub after blooming and adds nitrogen back in your soil
@@deannahaworth7666 I want to plant a few of the Goldilocks ones, so I’ll think of something I can put in front. I like the look of blue green and didn’t realize they were nitrogen fixers. 🩷
What do they look like?
Baptisia means baptism in greek. Ahaha what a name to give to a plant!!
I got the vanilla decadence in zone 8b and it hasn’t bulked up in the last 2 years since I planted it. It’s still very few branches . Is there something to make it grow faster n bulkier
I didn't know they got so big. They are pretty but do not bloom long enough.
Y'all need to breed for rebooking traits. Their flowers don't last long enough
I have bought Baptisia but it’s not in the Decadence collection. They are False indigo Goldfinch. What size should it be? How long does it take to develop the big taproot that would make it hard to transplant in case it takes up too much room in the place I’ve put it? TIA Zone 8 NO AL
If it is the variety 'American Goldfinch' they should get about 3-3.5' tall and 4-4.5' wide. At 3-5 years they can be tricky to transplant as they should have significant root development.
I just find that baptisia are too large and with such a short bloom time, they are not worth the real estate in my garden.
Bumble bee queens love this plant. I hope you reconsider if you're somewhere in the northeast or Midwest US.
I agree; so short!!
How long do they bloom?
There are smaller sized, but even one or three make fabulous impact. They have gorgeous flowers and make a wonderful backdrop for later season flowers for a lush looking garden.