Always grateful to discover un

expected combinations of spectacular plants on my travels. This time, I didn’t have to travel far – only to the Toronto Botanical Garden. Don’t know the specific c

ultivars here, but Amsonia and Baptisia seem made to

go together, don’t you think? They’re both low-maintenance perennials, and native North Americans, to boot – great massed, as here.

Perhaps this is Amsonia tabernaemontana? Or one of the shorter cultivars like A. ‘Blue Ice’.

One of the beautiful new smokey-coloured Baptisias? Lovely.