PLEASE NOTE - These varieties are protected by EU PBR and US Plant Patent law. Commercial propagation is illegal without a licence). Lupins with PBR cannot be propagated from by customers, in any form including seeds, cuttings, micropropagation or any other method of reproduction/propagation.

CULTURAL NOTES - On receipt of your lupins, plant out as soon as the soil is warm enough, usually mid to end of April (obviously, as soon as you receive them if it is later than this). Plant firmly into ground prepared only with bonemeal or calcified seaweed, although this is not necessary. Do not use farmyard manure as this will rot the crowns. Water in but do not overdo it. You must place slug pellets around the plant in its young stages. There are now safe forms called Advanced slug pellets which contain Ferris Iron and are 100% safe to use around wildlife, birds, cats, dogs and humans. Other organic alternatives include caffiene, garlic, gravel, bran, copper filings but only slug pellets really work and even these have to be put down on a fairly regular basis until the plant is established.

Lupins prefer to be in full sun but will grow in part shade. It is no good, however, growing them under dark, dank trees in deep shade or waterlogged sites. Very chalky soils are not recommended, but anything else is acceptable.

Our plants will give you one flower in their first year and as with other herbaceous plant, are at their best from year two onwards. After a few years they will have made up a good sized crown which you can split with a spade early spring and replant. If you want seeds, remember the mother plant does not produce the same colour plants as herself and the seed will give you a rainbow of different coloured seedlings. These should not be named after the mother plant even if some turn out similar in colour. Only splitting or cuttings give the identical or cloned plant.

If you want a few seed don't allow the whole stock plant to set seed or you will exhaust it and shorten the life of your lupin. Take off flowers as they go over, leaving just the bottom half to set. Staking is not necessary.

Good for borders, containers or wild garden. Smaller species - rockery or scree bed.

Five of our named varieties, selected by us. (Normally £7.50 each)

Lovely pink on white flushed lupin. Much admired. Mid flowering season Ht 2.5'/75cm. Sold in 9cm pots

Bicolour of purple bells and yellow standards. Mid season reaching 3'/90cm in height. Sold in 9cm pots

Rich purple lupin with orange fleck in standards. Sharply pointed spikes, early season. Excellent form. Ht 75cm/2.5'. Sold in 9cm pots

Lovely lagoon blue with white fleck. Compact habit. Early season. Ht 90cm/3'. Sold in 9cm pots

Superb red with white fleck. Long flowering season. Early season reaching 90cm/3'. Sold in 9cm pots

Rich lemony yellow self, slender flower spikes. Mid season. Ht to 90cm/3'. Sold in 9cm pots

Lovely coppery orange self, vigorous. Early season. Ht 90cm/3'. Sold in 9cm pots