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Has anyone out here ever grown lupine from seed?
If so, I’d love to hear all about it.
I love Lupine but I went to the nursery yesterday and they were pretty expensive and I’d like to have about 60 in my perennial garden.
I know that I’ll have to wait a year, but this is the right time to be planning next year’s gardens.
Thanks!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 7, 2024 4:38 PM |
Mine died
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 7, 2024 3:01 PM |
Depends on where you live, Greg, and the variety of lupine.
My sister is a award-winning landscaping guru who created and maintains the flower beds at our Dad's home in Louisiana. She lives in TX where lupine is popular (thanks, Lady Bird!), and schleps them from her local plant stores to plant at the old homestead.
For our beds, which are only 1/8 the size of hers, she experiments with types-- she rotates varieties year to year; this year it's the "true" Bluebonnet (seen @pics), and next year she'll install the more showy "grape cluster" lupine.
They grow really well in-ground in Zones 7-9, and can naturalize in untended spaces. Zones 1-6 they're more annual in-ground, but do very well and are absolutely gorgeous in containers.
They look amazing in any setting, but I really like them in a more naturalistic garden like ours, versus Sister's more formal, Versailles-esque gardens at her home.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 7, 2024 4:19 PM |
Not to be confused with Lu Pone
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 7, 2024 4:21 PM |
Poor Michael Palin - his wife died last year after almost 60 years of marriage.
He’s the only member of Monty Python to be a “Sir.” John Cleese was offered a CBE and a peerage, which he turned down. Eric Idle won’t be given one because nobody likes him.
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