I have 3 small false blue indigo plants to trade from items on my want list. Thanks!

Have to agree with bloom the third year. Last year was the first time, this year was really pretty. Original plant was very small, 3" pot. Seemed happy, got bigger each year. My understanding is they have a LARGE taproot, which needs to get established before they will bloom. They are hard to move, usually die if moved when large, so place them where you want them to stay. Sometimes you just can't hurry them, which makes the flowers your reward!

I cut my Purple Smoke Baptisia back to about 15 inches immediately after blooming this year. It has regrown to almost its original height and is perfect looking, with no flopping at all. Mine has always had a tendancy to splay open and flop somewhat after blooming, so I have been cutting it back some each year, but I never gave it such a drastic haircut until this year. Worked fine. Nice, bushy, upright & about the prettiest cleanest foliage of anything this time of year. Took surprisingly little time to regenerate itself, but as I said before, did not get quite as tall as it was originally. The problem that I had in previous years was that with a minor haircut it got even taller with regrowth than it was originally, somewhat out of proportion with other plantings in the bed, & still splayed open more than I liked. My baptisia is planted in amended rich fertile clay soil in an area that is somewhat high in my yard & on the dryish side (for my wettish garden). In less rich soil it might not need such drastic cutback treatment, but it was this or dig it out. BTW, it looked a lot like asparagus spears sticking out of the ground after I gave it the hard cutback, kind of ugly & scary looking, but I'm very happy with it now. Now it is sort of the perfect late summer/early fall plant that also managed to look good in spring & early summer - a very long season!

I have False blue indigo and Carolina lupine growing very close to each other. Can I move one? If so, which and how?