It’s easy to propagate lupines and make new plants to create an even more spectacular show in late spring and summer. With spikes in a range of shades, they’re impactful flowers, and if you learn how ...

A four-year study of one rare and one common lupine growing in coastal dunes showed that a native mouse steals most of the rare lupines seeds while they are still attached to the plant. The mouse is a ...

Q. I’ve always admired the blue lupines blooming in spring on our local hillsides and along the freeways. They seem to grow on their own, without any human intervention. I’d like to try growing them ...

LUPINES are spring on a stalk -- scented plumes in blue, purple, red and yellow surrounded by a slowly moving haze of bees. Once they were L.A.’s most common wildflowers, thriving in spent soils on ...

Native to North and South America, lupines - sometimes called lupins - are those striking, spiky herbaceous perennials that vibrantly bloom in late spring to mid-summer in USDA Zones 4-8. As a member ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. perennial border Deadheading lupines is a worthwhile garden task. Removing the spent blooms from the plants can encourage them to ...

One of my favorite perennials is the lupine. They grow wild across Canada and parts of the United States. In urban gardens they’re short-lived perennials, particular about their sun exposure. Those in ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 104, No. 3 (March 2017), pp. 389-398 (10 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Biotic interactions such as seed predation can play a role in explaining patterns of abundance ...

Dear Roger: Driving back and forth to Southern Pines as I often do, I have observed beautiful purple flowers growing along the roadway and among the trees on Manchester Road. Our dictionary plant ...

It is surmised that the lupine reached no farther north than the Golden Gate until man intervened. Beside our stands in Humboldt, a Manchester, Mendocino County dairyman secured seeds in San Francisco ...