I planted lupines today

[Botany]

Tough to grow in central Ohio and most likely it will be an annual but the flower is exquisite.

Neat pollinators too.

[Quakerfriend]

1. Lovely! And, a beautiful combination of colors!!

- Hope you are feeling stronger every day, Botany.

[SarahD]

2. Your lupines or your lives!

Great Monty Python sketch. A highwayman

named Dennis Moore robs rich people of their lupines and gives them to the poor, who are completely nonplussed about what to do with the flowers.

[applegrove]

3. Poisonous to cows. So keep your cows out of

the garden okay?

[Botany]

7. O. P. G. other people's gardens. Don't worry about the cows because I keep them out because I have ....

…. snakeroot plants and milk sickness is a real worry.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Sorry, couldn't resist . . . .

[Emile]

11. Never seen that one before, hilarious 😂.

[FSogol]

5. Username checks out! N/t

[WestMichRad]

6. I collected seed of native lupine today

It’s a beneficial plant in savanna and prairie habitats, and the host plant of the endangered Karner blue butterfly.

Collected seed will be used in local efforts to restore land to savanna and prairie habitats.

[Botany]

8. R you close to Oak Openings/Kitty Todd?

The ones I planted are not near as strong as the native blue ones in N.W. Ohio.
Russel’s Hybrid Lupines suck. Pretty but not very hardy.

Btw if the pods are ripe store them in paper bags … the seed explodes from the pods …..
and plant them now in a nice peat/compost/sand mix. No deeper than 1/4 to 1/2 an
inch deep.

Btw. I had a Karner’s Blue land on my shoulder a few weeks ago.

[WestMichRad]

9. I had to look up those places

… so no, not near them. In SW part of the state.

I spread the pods and cover with a fine mesh screen. Had some uncovered pods distribute their seeds all over my greenhouse a few years ago!

[Botany]

10. Kitty Todd is a must see

Especially in May when the Lupines are blooming.