Lupins Reviews
Newest Review: ... root-stock to finally make the plant succumb (so that presumably, she could transform the space where it had once been into a ... more
... plug-ugly failing veg plot since that is what they've got there in its place)....so from that I had always assumed that lupins are pretty easy to grow.
But this is about my fifth year of trying to get the blessed things established in my own garden, and after another recent failure, I've basically had to give up.
They're horribly vulnerable to slug-attacks, is what I've found. I've bought lupins from the nursery and the garden centre at all stages of development; I've planted them here, I've planted them there, tr...morePrice Comparison for Lupins
Customer Lupins Reviews (1)
by - written on 17/08/09 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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I like big, brightly coloured plants - perennials, for preference, since I don't go for all that 'bedding plants, nemesias - tuberous begonias - surfinas, pop 'em in a planter and wait for them to die' malarkey. Something with interesting foliage and large gaudy flowers, preferably in clashing colours; a plant that grows tall and reliably comes up year after year is what I'm after - so given all that in theory I should love lupins. Hypothetically, I do. My mother had some lovely pink and purple ones in her garden just after my parents first moved into their house, and I know for a fact that it took her years and years of chipping away at that lupin's giant ... Read the complete review
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