Lupine flowers: lush greenery and a riot of colors on your flower bed

Flowers lupines - bright and distinctive representatives of the legume family, used in group plantings with other one-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 plants. 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.

General description and description

Lupine is a herbaceous plant coming from the meadows of the Mediterranean and North America. His leaves, resembling 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 most 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.

Watering

Garden flower lupine does not require a special organization 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, its 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.

Formation of a bush

Externally, the bush of lupine looks like lush curly bushes, 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 of which the plant no longer looks so attractive. To avoid this, bushes of lupine hills to stimulate the formation of lateral roots, helping to preserve the ornamentality of the bush.

Flowering period

As a rule, lupines bloom in mid-May. If a fading "candle" is cut off in time, you can achieve a second flowering in August.

Care in the period of rest and hibernation

Flowers lupines - plants are frost-resistant: they can withstand a cooling to -8 degrees, therefore, especially careful preparation for wintering is not required. It will be sufficient to shortly cut off the stems of the plant.

Transplant and reproduction

A lupine bush can grow in the same place without transplantation for 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 a collection hybrid that 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 lupine will transform your garden. The photo shows what an original flowerbed, decorated with these garden flowers.