lupins

Very pretty Sandra.......they're so unusual with the flowers spikes of pea type flowers and then those wonderful palm leaves.......:o)

coming on great - remember to keep the seeds at the end of season

ok angie,, do i just let dead flower dry then shake seeds out? never done seeding before,,
janey i love the leaves alone then flowers are a bonus

I think so - we used to do this as kids and it worked a treat lupin seeds are easy ones - I've just mastered marigolds and antirinuims - I collected them last year and potted them a couple of months ago - looking good so far - I couldn't make a living out of it though :)

thats great angie, trouble is i dont have greenhouse so will end up with trays of seeds in windows lol

I have a mini greenhouse I keep at side of house - however I have a small log cabin thingy (from previous owners) Gary Has one room for his tools Ben has the big room for playing and mammy has the toilet for overspill of plants & projects - think I got the short straw !!!

guess mums always do angie,may look into getting a lean to or small greenhouse, must be somewhere i can pop it, do you think baz would notice lol

nah just sneak it in an say "it's always been there hun"

lol angie

Just noticed mine have flowers Sandra, same colour as yours, Ive a white one too, I see you painted your fence did i miss the Pics (confused)

thats great dee and painted fence when we first did raised bed, its my decking fence i havent painted yet,maybe thats what your thinking

Ahhhhh i see, can't you make your mind up?

yes im having it green but weather has put hold on that for now dee

the seeds are catapulted out of the peapods when they dry so keep an eye on them. lovely colour. i have a pale pink/lemon bicoloured one coming into flower.

thanks sea... will do that then,, bet pink/lemon looks lovely, post a pic when open ok

sure will.

Beautiful, and always a good idea to save seed, but don't mean to put dampener, but the seeds for this are highly toxic, so keep well away from animals/kids where ever you store them...and they are so easy to grow from seed you don't even need a greenhouse San just a tray full out side in a sheltered spot or make shift cold frame in the garden will do...also did you know if there is a wilkos near you they have them pop up ones in there really cheep at the moment.......you could pop it up somewhere tell baz it was half price in the sale...which they are at the moment,,,and let him know how much money you will be saving him by growing your own plants rather than buying them :D

thanx for that ang.. will keep them in safe place,, i do have small pop up so sorted,, and yes it saves alot of money, every time i pass somewhere with plants i have to buy one , just got home with another plant now haha shhhhh!

OK guys fill me in. What kind of plant is it. Definately cool looking and I won't eat the seeds!

hi regina, its a lupinus very common here in uk, im sure you would get them over in the states, you would have to look them up online,this one is gallery series pink but they come in differant colour :o)

it's a Lupin Regina, they are lovely plants and easy to grow, and no eating the seed defo a bad idea..... and San lol another good thing with a greenhouse - even the pop up type is that you can buy plants while 'he' is at work, remove any sale stickers from the pot, and any kind of wrapping hide them up in the greenhouse for a week or two, and then when Baz is in the garden let him see you getting it out of the greenhouse, and show it to him saying..'.look at what i grew from seed...see how much money this greenhouse is saving....maybe we should get a proper/bigger one!' ........ there you go two birds one stone ;-)

very good ang.. got two new plants today and sneeked them in, i got a delphinium pacific mixed, and penstemon barbatus cambridge mixed, look very pretty on tag so hope they look good when they grow :o)

i am sure they will fit in just nicely.

thanx ang :o))

Yes, now I recognize it. I've never seen them in pink (sorry sanbaz) usually in purple. I will check it out! Thanks

can get blue and white to regina, also yellow im sure,, your welcome