Lupin Gallery Mix

Planting Advice for Lupin 'Gallery Mixed':

• Lupins prefer to be grown in full sun with some afternoon shade to protect them from the heat of hot, midday sun.
• Grow in any soil as long as it is free draining and rich in organic matter.
• Pot-grown lupins can be planted at any time of the year as long as the soil is not waterlogged or frozen.
• Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the plant is in place
• Before planting soak container-grown plants thoroughly and allow to drain.
• Remove your lupin from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
• Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
• Place your plant in the hole at the same level at the pot.
• Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
• Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and then water well.
• Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.

 Aftercare Advice for your Gallery Lupins:

• Water well and regularly for the first few months.
• Once planted, keep the area free of competing weeds.
• Apply a generous layer of mulch around the base of the plant after planting and thereafter annually to keep the roots cool.
• Lupins are nitrogen fixers, storing Nitrogen in specially adapted root nodules so don't need specialist feeding.
   

Pruning Advice for Lupins:

• Lupins don’t like being vigorously pruned or cut back, so only remove flower spikes once they have faded to encourage further blooming and don’t allow any seed pods to develop.
• Leave foliage to die back naturally in the autumn.