Brighten your garden with companion plants that bring year-round interest next to blue false indigo. These eye-catching combinations offer a dynamic landscape.

In this image from video, Yoshiko Ogura, 73, holds fermented indigo leaves she grows at her studio for making organic indigo dye in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 20, ...

In her backyard in downtown Hamilton, Hitoko Okada is growing her own indigo plants, which she uses to create dyes in a way that originated in sixth-century Japan.

Soon, these plants and flowers will be used to make natural dyes and handmade paper at U of M’s Stamps School of Art and Design. The Sustainable Materials & Color Garden was built by Stamps ...