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Kitty52Kitty52 Posts: 186
Was at my nephews allotment open day and while wandering through various allotments saw this plant. Liked it for my own garden.  No one there to ask what it is so does anyone know? Sorry photo gone landscape!! 

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited August 2023
    It's a lupin

    Found this lillte description - 
    Also referred to as the small-flowered Lupin or Hairy Lupin, Lupinus micranthus is an annual growing to a height of 20-40cm. The growth form is variable, sometimes a single stem but often freely branching.The stems are covered with many short hairs and a few longer brownish ones.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • Kitty52Kitty52 Posts: 186
    Thanks, thought it looked like a lupus but liked it as it was quite compact. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It's lovely isn't it.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Kitty52Kitty52 Posts: 186
    Meant lupin not lupus!!! Trying to find where to buy. Not sure if it’s an annual or not. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The description above I posted indicates it is an annual.
    I have lupins, but never had an annual variety  - maybe next year.
    I want more blue in my borders

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Beware slugs though.  Never managed an unmunched lupin myself.  ;)  
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Maybe you could beg some seeds? How well do the allotment people get along ? Round here they are all too pleased to share seeds .
  • Kitty52Kitty52 Posts: 186
    Nephews allotment but expect he would ask. If they’re annuals they were very bushy plants. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2023
    Looks to me like the blue flowered version of the tree lupin 
    Lupinus arboreus … yellow is the most usually seen form but my late FIL had both. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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