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Blue Lupine in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Lupinus pilosus

 

Blue Lupine

Deep blue flowers, furry stems and leaves, enormous furry seedpods. Hardy annual 30". Lupinus pilosus has blue flowers with white vertical spot at the middle.

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plant Features
  • Blue Lupine likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Blue Lupine likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Blue Lupine is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Blue Lupine likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Blue Lupine

Latin name

Lupinus pilosus

type

Annual

family

Fabaceae

ph

5.0 - 7.6 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Blue Lupine likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Blue Lupine is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Blue Lupine likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Blue Lupine likes very little water

    Very little water

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Blue Lupine is 0.30meters x 1.50meters 0.30 M 1.50 M

Lupinus pilosus

Deep blue flowers, furry stems and leaves, enormous furry seedpods. Hardy annual 30". Lupinus pilosus has blue flowers with white vertical spot at the middle.


Propagation by cuttings

From Early Spring TO Early Summer

Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10 cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted. Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.

 

Planting Outdoors Spring

From Mid Spring TO Late Spring

Plant out container grown plants in boarders in full sun when risk of frost is passed.

 

Propagation by seed Spring

From Mid Spring TO Late Spring

Sow seed into flowering position in spring, however lupins grown from seed will not be true to type.

 

Flowering Season

From Late Spring TO Late Summer

Lupins flowers come in many different striking colours as well as pastel shades.

 

Propagation by seed

From Early Autumn TO Mid Autumn

Sow seed in trays to be planted out in autumn, however lupins grown from seed will not be true to type.

 
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