Planting Lupins

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Lupins are a traditional cottage garden favourite, but they can grow quite fast and reach large heights quickly. For that reason Dwarf Lupins are an excellent choice for those who love these beautiful plants but want a more manageable, shorter alternative. Flowering in June-July, plants will produce spikes full of tiny flowers making a terrific display. They come in a stunning range of bright and bold colours and only grow to around 60cm. They go well with colourful, cottage garden perennials and look great in the border. Just watch out for slugs!


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0:00 now if you asked anybody to name a plant

0:02 from the childhood chances are they

0:05 actually sat down and thought about it

0:06 for a while probably people would

0:07 struggle to name anything but the ones

0:10 that did probably a loop him would be

0:12 mentioned it would be in everybody's

0:13 garden it was it was the simplest

0:16 easiest plant to actually find him in

0:19 most suburban Gardens and there's no

0:22 less important today cuz this two

0:25 different sorts is dwarf ones and the

0:27 tall big groin Russell lupins for your

0:29 borders but these two off ones a

0:32 magnificent grow sixty centimeters tall

0:34 and a all the qualities of any looping

0:37 and beautiful they come in blister pack

0:40 back this in modular size some good ales

0:43 the growers and the guaca five and a

0:45 half centimeter look at the roots on

0:47 that ready to burst forth and go and it

0:50 couldn't be simpler I'm planting it in a

0:52 one liter pot but these will go out in

0:54 the board if you've got old your ground

0:55 ready if you haven't a one-liter spots a

0:58 few pebbles in the bottom a

1:01 multi-purpose compost I'm gonna grow

1:03 these on for probably a month get them

1:05 to a decent size and all you've got to

1:09 do is pop it in like that

1:10 keep the compost damp if we get a dry

1:13 spot which is unlikely but if we get a

1:16 dry spell keep the compost damp and

1:18 that's all you need to do they're fully

1:20 Hardy they're grown outside they live

1:23 outside they won't thank you for being

1:24 brought in I'll probably put these in a

1:28 nice quiet spot just to let them grow on

1:31 for about a month or they're now in the

1:32 borders they'll go and just think of

1:34 those those columns of color and this

1:36 all the colors in the world now dwarf

1:38 lupins have all the attributes of the

1:40 taller cousin which you've not got the

1:42 space that you want and you want to grow

1:44 something a little smaller or you want

1:46 to grow some in a large pot I'll tell

1:48 you what these are wonderful the colors

1:50 to buy colors the variants wonderful

1:53 wonderful things give them a good hard

1:55 prune after they've finished flowering

1:57 and you'll get another flush of flower

1:59 in September time magnificent think of a

2:01 bad juice full of lupins they're a

2:04 beautiful thing they really are and once

2:07 the flowers are finished if you cut the

2:08 foliage off you're getting another show

2:10 of flower in September

2:12 you will

2:20 and here's the dwarf lupins a five or

2:24 six centimeter plug potted on from good

2:27 ales these are beautiful things

2:28 the dwarf ones though they're not like

2:30 the giant loopings that you get that

2:32 really getting knocked about by the wind

2:34 these are dwarf ones pretty little

2:36 flowers and look how they've grown on in

2:38 six weeks two months

2:40 they're fantastic things one tip with

2:42 these if you take out the flowers as

2:44 soon as they've finished cut them out

2:46 you'll get it completely Auto Show in

2:48 September and you'll get double flowers

2:51 for free but next year even better

2:54 it really is grand stuff this gardening


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