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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Annuals => Topic started by: Hilary on May 03, 2020, 05:51:01 AM

Title: Lupinus microcarpus
Post by: Hilary on May 03, 2020, 05:51:01 AM

Lupinus microcarpus

Flowering on the balcony at this moment.
 I obtained the seeds from
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN SOCIETY seed exchange and sowed them, in a pot, mid-October.
 Several plants grew, this  one very strongly.

http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/seedlist.html

To read about a swathe of blue lupins read
AN ELYSIAN FIELD OF BLUE LUPINS by Derek Johns
In THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 28, April 2002

Title: Re: Lupinus microcarpus
Post by: Alisdair on May 12, 2020, 08:07:35 AM

It makes an unexpectedly lovely pot-plant - thanks for showing us, Hilary