Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Syria each topped with lovely clusters

each topped with lovely clusters of cherry red flowers with a darker red in the center of each petal and a faint blue-purple blush to the petal tips as they open

each ending as a drooping thread

brilliant orange flowers

both the fern and Thurman

forming a substantial

Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Syria each topped with lovely clustersWe've grown Indigofera kirilowii for nearly 30 years, and assumed it all looked about the same as the 18" tall form we grew oh, were we wrong. In 2014, when visiting the Cincinnati Zoo, Director of Horticulture, Steve Foltz, showed me their clone, which came from the late plantsman, Buddy Hubbuch, at Kentucky's Bernheim Arboretum. There it grew, 5' tall heart be still! Since Indigofera kirilowii has a huge range from outer Mongolia south into Japan