Purple Lupin - really pretty - last one

Wow...They like your soil....

Think it was too dry in the summer for them, so when they had flowered I chopped it back, didn't think it would do this for me though, then we got some rain and they started to grow again. lovely colour on this one.

Gorgeous....I've grown some mixed Lupins for next year B...and will take another chance at growing them here, i've got one in the garden among the Delphis, I just plonked there, mainly out of frustration, and it's doing ok...so we'll see...:))

According to Monty Don and Gw if you cut them back in August they'll re grow again and flower into nov ..

I love this one O...My pink one is still going too....

Thanks everyone, yes Motti my Pink one is still flowering too.

I just don't know how you do it Olive. My first flush very early in the year were ok., but then they all got eaten and I haven't seen them since.

I don't know how it is all done either Rose lol. They have been lovely this year, but I think I maybe watered more than I usually do because in other years I haven't and they do suffer from the drought. Think though being dry helps keep off the slugs and snails also. Swings and roundabouts, just seem to have been lucky I suppose. Thanks for your comment.

I find a lot of my herbaceous plants are attacked badly by aphids...do you get that Mum...perhaps not with all your woodland birds going about!

No we do not seem to get a lot, touch wood, but probably because of all the birds around and the dragon flys - now they are amazing to watch, chasing the flying insects. So very clever how they twist and turn. Suppose it is midges they are catching though. But if they are eating them they are not eating me to death. lol.

I am still flummoxed by the fact that I have not had a single midge bite since I was eaten alive my mosquitoes in St Lucia. Scott says not antibodies...so how could that be then? weird!

They obviously didn't like the taste and passed it down the line to their english cousins. lol. yep I agree it is weird.

:)