thankyou all for the post on loopins. i had two loopin plants last year and only one has come up this time.
as the plant is full of growth i took the advise from here and have now got four new plant with roots so fingers crossed they will all grow well this summer.
thankyou all for making time to post about loopins. i will keep you all informed how the new plant do.
I want to dig my lupins up in late summer and pot them up for the winter as I have clay soil and they dont seem to like overwintering in it I normally lose a few every year. Do you think if I dig them up in say late Aug and put them in clay pots for the winter that would work ?
Hollie hock - when I say I lose a few every year what happens is they start to shoot in spring and then if the spring is too cold and wet the new little shoots start rotting off at the base. I think I will do what Verdun suggests and pot them then plant them out at the end of March. This year has been so cold all the early summer flowes like foxgloves are still in mid season when they would normally be over so I don't think that the long cold spring has helped matters.
I lost energy towards the end of last year, despite my original intention to get all my less hardy plants under cover before xmas, and left one North-facing flower bed untouched. Out of three lavenders, three two year-old lupins and a large sage I lost one french lavender and two lupins and half the sage to the cold. The two lavenders and one lupin that survived have grown like monsters this spring and the surviving half of the sage has sprung back to full vigor. Weird how you can lose half a plant Anyway, the surviving lupin is so big and flower covered now that I'm glad I left it alone.
I love lupins too! So colourful and amazing to look at!
Alas though they truly are short lived It could be my soil. In fact I know it is as the picture above is generally the best I ever get! Then a few years later and they don't come back any more. I never learn though planted some "Woodfield Hybrids" this year.
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thankyou all for the post on loopins. i had two loopin plants last year and only one has come up this time.
as the plant is full of growth i took the advise from here and have now got four new plant with roots so fingers crossed they will all grow well this summer.
thankyou all for making time to post about loopins. i will keep you all informed how the new plant do.
anthony watch out fr the slugs.
I want to dig my lupins up in late summer and pot them up for the winter as I have clay soil and they dont seem to like overwintering in it I normally lose a few every year. Do you think if I dig them up in say late Aug and put them in clay pots for the winter that would work ?
Hollie hock - when I say I lose a few every year what happens is they start to shoot in spring and then if the spring is too cold and wet the new little shoots start rotting off at the base. I think I will do what Verdun suggests and pot them then plant them out at the end of March. This year has been so cold all the early summer flowes like foxgloves are still in mid season when they would normally be over so I don't think that the long cold spring has helped matters.
I lost energy towards the end of last year, despite my original intention to get all my less hardy plants under cover before xmas, and left one North-facing flower bed untouched. Out of three lavenders, three two year-old lupins and a large sage I lost one french lavender and two lupins and half the sage to the cold. The two lavenders and one lupin that survived have grown like monsters this spring and the surviving half of the sage has sprung back to full vigor. Weird how you can lose half a plant
Anyway, the surviving lupin is so big and flower covered now that I'm glad I left it alone.
I love lupins too! So colourful and amazing to look at!
Alas though they truly are short lived
It could be my soil. In fact I know it is as the picture above is generally the best I ever get! Then a few years later and they don't come back any more. I never learn though 
planted some "Woodfield Hybrids" this year.