Baptisia 'Lemon Meringue' summer where its enchanting starry petals

where its enchanting starry petals can be admired up close

or have a dedicated cut flower patch

Paeonia 'The Fawn' offers beauty with reassuring garden performance too

upright stem usually around September

just when windowsills and sideboards could use a little theatre

Baptisia 'Lemon Meringue' summer where its enchanting starry petalsBaptisia 'Lemon Meringue' is a beautifully composed false indigo, bringing a refined play of colour and structure to the sunny border. Upright, dark stems rise with quiet confidence from neat clumps of blue green foliage, each leaf held in those pleasing sets of three that make Baptisia 'Lemon Meringue' look tidy even before the flowers appear. In late spring to early summer, deep purple buds gather like ink drops before opening into soft yellow