How nice!

I have a few tiny batisia seedlings from this year's WSing. I'll make sure they get a special spot in my garden after seeing your photos.

Lynda

I just opened my Horticulture Magazine email and this was the featured plant. Your photo is lovely - I think I have some seedlings of this, but I've actually lost track in all the sowing I've done. I need to get planting. AGH!

Here is a link that might be useful: horticulture magazine

Pretty!

Mine is on its third year! I might have to wait one more... it just coming up now so will see by june here.

I got my seed from a lowes parking lot, where they planted these all of the place! They must have 300 of these in its parking lot...

They also have a 200 foot border filled with rudbeckias , echs and other perrienials, its quite the site and a very unusual landscape for them.. I feel whomever did that took some time and care to pick plants out.. again very unusual...

silverkelt

I sowed mine this year and planted them out a few weeks ago. Three years, huh? I'll see if I can whittle that down to a month. ;)

Good to know your Baptisia has bloomed for you finally! Your photos are just lovely.

There's a Baptisia in my garden that I planted as a plant last spring...it didn't bloom last year, but we'll see if it blooms this year maybe. It has gotten pretty big in the meantime. If it blooms, hopefully I can collect the seeds.

Also planted a Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight' this past fall (blooms in yellow), but that one is still pretty tiny. I caught one of the groundhogs munching on it last week, so I just transplanted it to our fenced garden next to the Baptisia australis.

Thanks again for sharing the gorgeous pics!

LOL good luck with that, Token. The first year, mine were a single little stem with a couple of leaves. Last year, they were larger but the stems were thin and floppy. But I have 4 that are blooming, each from 1 wintersown seedling, and I have another one that is a lot smaller, in a shadier spot, that may be a second year (sounds like it is in college).

I have seedlings of what is supposed to be white baptisia this year.

Becky

Beautiful! The seeds I tried this year so far haven't sprouted. So if I just try it again next year, I'll be waiting 4 years for blooms? I may need to break down and buy a plant :)

My baptisia australis is covered with buds. This is its 3rd year. I have a white one in the butterfly bed that's on year #2. So far I don't see any buds on that one. I've had one in a container 3 years waiting for a spot to plant it and that one has buds on it as well. I think they're spectacular and am happy I've managed to get my hands on so many. I'm WS seeds as well but I know they won't bloom for a few years (sorry Token!). The taproot on one I bought last year was sticking out of the bottom of the quart pot by about 8 inches. That plant was so pot-bound I bought it out of pity (plus the $4 price tag). It's growing big and beautiful after getting a little TLC since I brought it home.
They're definitely worth waiting for and once established you can pretty much just enjoy them.
missanissa - the seeds I WS back in January haven't sprouted yet either and we've had an unusually warm spring here in CT. Give yours a little more time before you give up on them. I grew them indoors last year from seed and they took a really long time to sprout.

Great pictures! And I am extrememly jealous!
Year one WSing - no germination

Year two WSing - no germination and I was frustrated so I tossed the pot by May

Year three WSing - Germination! In early May (late I thought! but this year's crop is too) Anyway, potted up those babies, nursed them all summer with lots of TLC, found a great spot to plant in September.

Year Four _ ;(;(:( Plants did not come back!!!! Starting all over again with tiny seedlings in two containers.

Gardening - - - -it teaches you patience!

Nancy

Wow, it certainly is worth the wait, I love the look of them, your pictures are great! I WS'd last year and 2 plants lived. When they died back I really didn't know what to expect. I had them living in large foam cups, just thrown on the back porch for the winter. In the spring I checked the cups, ready to toss them, when I noticed little green nubbies sticking out of the dirt. I couldn't believe my eyes.

They are doing just great, ready to be planted into their permanent spots. And so are my Amsonia which I WS'd last year. I am doing the happy dance now!!

Even more incredible, I have Russian Tarragon coming back in a large plastic tub. Now that is a real shock! I never imagined that could happen.

Mary

Dang, that's pretty! Now I can't wait. I'm going to have to buy one! My seeds didn't sprout. :(

Love the photos! I'm waiting for my WS'n Baptisia to bloom - sowed both Baptisia australis and B. leucantha (white Baptisia) in 2008. They are much smaller than yours - about 2 or 3 main stems, 4-8 inches tall. But they're still in pots and would probably be bigger if they were in the ground. Last year I planted out 3 of them in the meadow garden, and they got eaten by the rabbit! Gone (along with the native clovers and a few others). So it's good there are some left in pots.

2 years ago I bought 'Twilight Prairie Blues' and 'Carolina Moonlight' and TWB is doing much better than CM - lots of buds.

They are all pretty.

What a lovely picture!! I became interested in this plant through Kathy? Renwald who used to have a gardening show when HGTV included the G. I winter sowed some seeds about three years ago and planted them out in my front border, but they were destroyed by the neighbouring cats, who were using my bed as a bathroom. This year, I received some more in a trade, and they are beautiful seedlings. I think I will pot them up and put them in their permanent spaces in the fall. And Token, 3 years it is. I was recently reading an article about them which stressed the 3-year wait, and also said it was a Perennial of the Year for 2010. So we are all in good company!!
Northerner.

I have to correct something in my post. My tarragon is not Russian, it is French which cannot be grown from seed. It is a perennial in zones 3-7, I didn't know that. I am very happy though, and now I will put back outside the one I had potted up last fall and grew indoors over the winter. I learn something new every day!

Mary