Lupinus arboreus 'Alba'

Lupinus arboreus 'Alba' (Tree Lupin). Great plant as it is evergreen, flower spikes have a very heady scent. The make good cut flowers, but you know when they are in the house. Great plant for coastal areas as resistant to salt in air. Also great as hedging. I grew these from seed. 6ft x 6ft minimum!

Wow! I had a yellow one, up until a couple of years ago. Not sure what happened but it met a sad end. Slugs? Wasn't very big at the time but produced lovely flowers.

@beckers1974 The colour of Tree Lupins go yellow, blue then white, in commonality. They are slug & snail restistant, so it must have been something else that got yours! I love in the country and have a cottage garden, with lots of big herbaceous borders. I keep my Tree Lupin at the back of the border as it gets so big. I give it a reshape in Autumn, as snow can weigh down branches and cause them to snap or can destroy the plant! If ground too , can cause root rot! 😢 That being said, it is a spe

Mine was in a pot in a sunny position. Lots of room for the roots and good soil. No idea what I did wrong. Your garden's stunning. I aspire to something half like that!

@beckers1974 Thank you. It has taken 14 years to get it to look like this. I'm currently scanning photos I took of the gardens when we bought this house. Grass throughout was waist high, dock leaves everywhere. There was also masses of Rosebay Willowherb on such a scale, that I'm still tackling it now!!! It grows wild on the verges around here and and the seeds blows around during the summer! You think you have eradicated it, but it makes a reappearance!!! Can be a real nightmare!!! 😡

Lovely. Not seen a white tree lupin before, only yellow or blue ones. Unfortunately mine has been devastated by greenfly this year 😑

@reedie-cottsge I have that problem with horsetails! They've sussed that growing within the protection of my plants ensures I merely pull them so they're not visible. They know that they irk me enough to hire a flame thrower, if they were to appear anywhere else! 😂😡

Ah, @jeatacake, that's maybe what happened to mine! This year's only the second year I've found them and they're only targeting one pot, so easier to clear! Last time I had them they molecated my plants!

@beckers1974 they are strange larger fatter aphids this year to ones I have seen before & very tough too - fairly resistant to washing up liquid spray 😕

I just squished a squad of them that were making my gardenia home!