Lupins

Tundra_Queen · Post by **Tundra_Queen** » Jun 16, 2006 11:37 pm

These just started blooming a few days ago and they sure brighten up the corner of the garden beside the Oriental poppy.

Debbie

mtngal · Post by **mtngal** » Jun 17, 2006 12:32 am

Those are beautiful!

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » Jun 17, 2006 5:49 am

Lupines are so gorgeous, but I can't help but laugh when I see them or hear their name mentioned. I always think of the lupines in that Monty Python segment.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 17, 2006 5:51 am

Love those pink! Very Pretty!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jun 17, 2006 11:11 am

So pretty! I'm definitely going to try winter sowing them.

Ed_B · Post by **Ed_B** » Jun 17, 2006 4:27 pm

Very nice plant picture's

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Jun 17, 2006 9:26 pm

Very pretty! I need to add these to my garden.

Tundra_Queen · Post by **Tundra_Queen** » Jun 17, 2006 9:39 pm

Thanks everyone. I actually pulled these out a few years ago, but they came back or a chipmunk planted them so I have just left them be.

I'm glad I did now.

Debbie

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 18, 2006 1:15 pm

You pulled them out??

I can never get the darn things to grow here - I've tried several times, but they've never overwintered so I finally gave up.

Yours are gorgeous, Debbie!!

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Jun 18, 2006 7:49 pm

I love lupin! ... even if after blooming they look awfull!

Here some pictures of mine.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 18, 2006 8:33 pm

Pretty! I only have PURPLE!

I'm beginning to think that's all my yard will support! Anything purple!

Tundra_Queen · Post by **Tundra_Queen** » Jun 18, 2006 10:23 pm

@ renaldo yeah I pulled them out and if they grew back I'd spray them with roundup, that was when i was redoing the front yard in 2004.They do have a habit of getting aphids so I didn't care.

I can just grow some more if I want them. Wish I had some of the other colours though.

You need to move up here where u can grow White Christmas hostas AND lupins. *G*

Debbie

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 19, 2006 12:26 am

Did you grow these from seed Debbie? Mine came in that bucket of wild flower seed about 15 years ago. Never saw one till I literally let the garden go to seed and birds, and bunnies and so on. Totally neglected it. Then about 5 years ago they showed up!

IT's now mostly grasses, wild blackberry, lupine (purple), iris, some loncernia <sp?> bushes, and other weeds the birds have dropped in

. THe lupine rise above everything every year and look great! But I've heard they are hard to move, so never have.

Love your pink. Maybe we should trade seed? Is that legal?

Have you ever saved it before? I've never even watched to see what they produced, but noticed they are forming now.

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 19, 2006 2:39 am

That's a generous offer, Debbie - but I'm afraid I'll have to pass. Your beautiful pics will have to do me.

[I can barely tolerate the amount of snow we get down here some years. LOL]

Your lupines are beautiful too, Nathalie.

Richiegirl · Post by **Richiegirl** » Jun 19, 2006 6:06 pm

I have a pink lupine also and am letting one stalk go to seed. But I need to know if the seeds will produce nothing but pinks. ??? I would like to have a few different colors. Do I have to get a packet of mixed seed in order to have a rainbow of colors, or will the seed I collect from a pink flowering plant produce lupines of different colors?

Richelle

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jun 19, 2006 6:11 pm

Your lupines are very pretty too, Nathalie!

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Jun 19, 2006 7:36 pm

Thank you!

About the seeds, I was asking myself the same question since I have yellow, red, pink and purple lupines at the same place. Will the insect make cross pollinisation (don't know if those words make sense.

)? The only thing I know is it's very easy to sow lupines. That's how I've got my first plant. They bloomed the next year.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 19, 2006 8:51 pm

I didn't realize they were that easy. I'll have to pick up some other colors to try. Thanks!

Tundra_Queen · Post by **Tundra_Queen** » Jun 20, 2006 3:40 am

Jane, yes I grew them from seeds, but I don't know if I grew those one myself or if the chipmunks took the seeds off the ones I did grow and planted the ones in the pic. I don't save the seeds I just let them do whatever they do. Maybe the birds eat them? I don't know.

If your going to grow them, stick the seeds in the freezer for a week first and that will help to break their dormancy.

Renaldo, you big chicken! You could come up for the lumberjack festival in July though and be home when the snow hits in August.

Richelle, I think the pinks will just produce pinks unless there is some other lupines in the vacinity the bees can get pollen from.

Nathalie, the insects will mix up the colours for you. *S*

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 20, 2006 1:09 pm

The lumberjack festival sounds like fun, Debbie.

But you've scared me off for good now - I'd be afraid I'd stay a day too long & you'd have an early snow & I'd be stuck in a drift again til the next July when you had your good day again.