Lupine flowers: lush greenery and a riot of colors on your flower bed
Flowers lupines - bright and original representativesfamily of legumes, used in group plantings with other single and perennials for decorating flower beds and lawns. Quite often lupine is underestimated by amateur gardeners, since most of them only know varieties with blue, blue-white and pink inflorescence, close to wild growing. In fact, there are many hybrids of garden lupine with the most diverse colors of colors: white, yellow, blue, pink, carmine, red, cream, purple, etc.
Lupine is a herbaceous plant coming from meadowsThe Mediterranean and North America. His leaves, reminiscent of a spread out palm, are attached to the trunk alternately on long thin petioles. The inflorescence is racemose, the fruiting is a bob by maturation. Flowers lupines - plants unpretentious and surprisingly fruitful: for the appearance of the real thickets of lupine is enough that only one seed was picked up by the wind, fell and sprouted in the ground. Like many other legume plants, lupine can feel comfortable and grow successfully even on poor, depleted soils, since its root system can extract nutrients from the deepest layers of soil. And if experienced flower growers appreciate lupine flowers for the magnificent shape of its bush and bright shades of inflorescences, then agronomists - for the ability to enrich the soil with nitrogen, accumulating in nodule bacteria on its roots.
Features of care
Lupine - a plant unpretentious in care. All that he needs for a comfortable existence on your backyard is timely watering, pruning and transplanting once every few years.
Garden flower lupine does not require specialorganization of the irrigation system. Provided that in the summer the rain will go at least once a week, lupine does not need additional watering at all. In addition, his leaves are able to collect dew. If the day turns out to be especially hot, in the evening the lupine will not give up spraying with cool water.
Shrub formation
Externally, the bush of lupine looks like curvy curlythickets, but eventually the plant grows old, the neck of the bush rises above the ground, the middle dies, and the side rosettes move away from each other - as a result, the plant no longer looks so attractive. To avoid this, bushes of lupine hill to stimulate the formation of lateral roots, helping to maintain the ornamentality of the bush.
Flowering period
As a rule, lupines bloom in mid-May. If a fading "candle" is cut in time, you can achieve a second flowering in August.
Care in the period of rest and wintering
Flowers lupines - plants are frost-resistant: they can withstand cooling down to -8 degrees, therefore, especially careful preparation for wintering is not required. It will be enough to shortly cut off the stems of the plant.
Transplant and Reproduction
A lupine bush can grow in the same placewithout transplantation 4-6 years. Reproduction of this garden plant is carried out with the help of seeds or by dividing an adult bush. If you want to keep the collection hybrid, which you like for the original coloring, it is better to choose the propagation by cuttings from an adult plant, because with the help of seeds it is impossible to achieve the same coloration in the next generation.
As you can see, everything is quite simple. Trust your imagination and imagination, you will see how the flowers of your lupine will transform your home garden. The photo shows what an original flowerbed, decorated with these garden flowers.
