Price range: £2.25 through £5.25
A cottage garden favourite, dwarf lupin is not as tall as standard lupin varieties and is simply full of fragrant white, pink, lilac or purple spires. This annual lupin will usually reach about 40 cm tall but will remain short when grown in poor soil. This lupin is not edible.
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Lupin, Dwarf Mixed
Lupinus nanus
Approx. 45 seeds per gram
A cottage garden favourite, Dwarf Lupin is not as tall as standard lupin varieties and is simply full of fragrant white, pink, lilac or purple spires. This annual lupin will usually reach about 40 cm tall but will remain short when grown in poor soil. This lupin is not edible.
How to grow:
Sow from March – May in well prepared soil 0.5cm deep. Seeds have a tough skin so can be knicked with a knife and soaked for 24 hours before sowing to aid germination. Sow thinly aiming for 10 cms between plants or thin to 10 cms apart when about 8 cm tall. Plants will grow to about 40cm tall.
Flowers:
June – September.