Lupine for many years: planting and care

Have you ever left the city of Moscow on the M4 highway in mid-May? A few kilometers after the MKAD, the lawns along the road are painted in blue-violet tones. So unpretentious flowers bloom, raising their heads high. This is perennial lupine, planting and care, photos, diseases and pests, we will talk about it below.

Description

Lupine hails from the countries of the Mediterranean, Africa and South America. It can grow not only on the plain, but almost at a five-kilometer height, as well as in the desert.

The name lupine is translated from the Latin language as a wolf, and in Russian it is sometimes called the “wolfberry”. It belongs to the legume family. It is grassy and shrubbery.

It has long roots extending deeper than 2 m.

Like other beans, it can absorb and process nitrogen with the help of processes on the roots, saturating the soil with it.

The bush is erect, leaves are palmate green.

Plant height depends on the variety.

Inflorescences are large, with many flowers of various colors. Some species are bicolor or gradually changing from one color to another. The flowering time of perennial lupine is about a month.

Seeds are hidden in bean boxes.

Chemical composition

Lupine seeds contain protein (42.1%), fat (8.6%), alkaloids (lupanin - up to 3.5%, as well as lupinin, luranin, hydroxylupanine, angustifolin), carotene, flavonoids, sugars, starch, fiber , ash, calcium, nitrogen-free extractive substances, etc.

In the whole aerial part of the plant, tannins, alkaloids, amino acids (aspartic, glutamine, etc.) and fiber were found.

In the leaves of the plant, up to 2% of the lupanine alkaloid, flavonoids, was found. The chemical composition of lupine root has not been studied.

Seed Planting Methods

Lupine perennial responds well to the care of him. Landing and care do not require large skills. Photos with him reflect the magnificence of the flower garden. And from the seeds you can get a great planting material quickly enough.

Lupins can be planted in various ways, depending on what effect and flowering time you want to achieve.

1. Autumn in the ground.
2. Spring into the soil.
3. For seedlings.

The selection of material and soil, as well as the actions during planting, are the same. We will analyze them in more detail when growing seedlings. But there are some features, let's talk about them.

Landing in the fall in the ground

Prepare a place in advance by harvesting weeds, adding fertilizer and good soil.

Seeds are scattered on the surface and sprinkled with a layer of peat.

During the winter, they will undergo the necessary processing and will please you with flowering in the first season.

Spring planting

If lupine is planted on a flowerbed in spring, this can be done already in early May. Seeds and plants are not afraid of frosts to -4 degrees.

Unfortunately, in the summer you will receive only green mass, and flowers for the next year.

Planting seeds for seedlings

Lupine perennial improves not only the appearance of the site, but also the soil, so its landing is required, especially on heavy lands. And caring for them turns into pleasure. A photo of growing seedlings can be seen below.

If gardeners dream of getting lupine in the first year after planting, you can plant the seeds in containers in March or April. Lupine is not very fond of transplanting, so try to pick up the pots in which he will grow before planting in the garden, it is better to plant the seeds in peat containers. Together with them, it must be transplanted.

To land, you must follow these steps:

• Choose containers for landing.
• Processed with a weak solution of manganese.
• Prepare the ground. A drain is placed at the bottom of the pot so that the water does not stagnate.

• Soil mix is ​​bought ready, or turf, peat, sand are mixed 2: 2: 1.
• Lupine beans are stratified, left in the freezer for a day, then thrown into boiling water.
• Then soaked for a day in a solution of a biostimulant: zircon, root, to soften the shell seed.
• Then planted in pots prepared in advance.
• Cover with covering material.
• After emergence (about 1-2 weeks), agrotextile is removed.
• If necessary, produce additional illumination.

• In mid-May, lupins are transplanted into the ground at a distance of 50 cm from each other. At the bottom of the landing pit, drainage is laid and spilled.
• Add fertilizer. That nitrogen fertilizers are put in small quantities, since the plant is able to pick them up from the soil.
• When planting, they act cautiously, trying to completely remove the plant along with a lump of earth, without damaging the roots.

• A lumped lump is put in a hole on the ground level and thrown into the soil, trampled.
• Watering.
• Since most varieties of lupine are tall, the plant is tied up.

An unusual way to grow lupine

In autumn, you can scatter lupine seeds under the trees. This flower perfectly takes root near the apple tree, cherry, plum and other fruit trees.

After winter, in spring you will see a whole lupine garden. For this, seeds of different colors are best suited. Then you will get colorful and bright flowers in April.

Lupine Care

The plant is not picky, but still requires a little care:

1. Watering is uniform, not more than 1 time per week, if it does not rain. Watch out for them and drought. On sunny, hot days, watered after two days.
2. Mineral dressing and spraying on the leaves is done once every 4 weeks, 14 days after the mineral is fed organic, for example, diluted bird flight.
3. Weeding. Since the root system of the lupine is pivotal, it is necessary to periodically loosen the soil and release it from weeds, to a depth of 5-7 cm.
4. The voids between the flowers are filled with mulch. Use crushed wood materials and stone as protection against cracking mail, evaporation of moisture.

Seed collection

Flower seeds are collected in a bean, break off quite easily. If you do not pluck during, the box will open and the small seeds inside will scatter throughout the site. Which is bad, the next year will have to fight with lupine.

Diseases and Pests

Lupine can be affected by diseases and pests. The most common are:

• Rust.It manifests itself with convex spots of orange color, is removed by fungicides or onion and garlic infusion.
• Ring spotting forms red or brown spots. They are treated with copper-containing preparations, for example, Bordeaux liquid or copper sulfate.

• The mosaic forms green patterns lighter than the entire leaf plate; soil disinfection with appropriate substances is necessary.
• Various types of rot, both stem and root, lead to the death of lupine. If you notice immediately, you can shed against the fungus.
• Among pests, aphids that feed on plant tops, weevils and sprout flies can often be seen. The plant is well watered from a hose, knocking down insects, then it is treated with a soapy solution from laundry soap and insecticidal preparations.

Types of Lupins

Since lupine grows quite on a vast territory from Europe to America, it has a lot of species, in the table some of them.

view	description	leaves	Inflorescences and flowers	bloom
Multi-sheeted	Erect stems up to 1 m	Covered from below with a pile.	30-35 cm.	June
Narrow-leaved (blue)	Straight, 150 cm, bare trunk.	Rare, pubescent.	Tall with flowers that have blue spots.	May June
White	140 cm.	Emerald, dissected, along the edge of small villi.	Long, spiraling flowers.	June
Russell	Have a pleasant aroma, powerful bush	Dark, dissected plates.	Huge up to 45 cm, similar to puffed sails.	The end of May
Dwarf	Low stems, often sold as a mixture.	Green, palmate	Variegated, racemose	The beginning of June
Yellow	100 cm, with a fluff, few leaves, emits a smell of reseda.	Long petioles, at least 5 fingers	Peduncle up to 20 cm, golden color.	June

Varieties for coloring inflorescences

Over many years of history, a huge number of varieties of perennial lupine have been bred, each species has more than a dozen of them. Planting and caring for them is practically no different, but you can create completely different flower beds.

Flower color	varieties
White	Burg Fraulen, Albus, Desniansky, Degas, Gama, Silver
Yellow	Yellow flame
Pink with burgundy and without	Hartwig King, Stossfrau, Edelknabbe, Princess Julianne, Roseus
Multicolor	Fireworks, Lulu
Orange	Apricot
Red	Karminius
Blue	Castellan
Violet	Rubinkenig

Lupine and other plants

Due to its growth and huge inflorescences, the plant looks great both in group plantings and as a loner. Lupine perennial is perfectly combined with other plantings, the care of which is close to the conditions for the growth of a wolf flower. The photos with which to plant this flower are diverse, as well as the type of flower beds.

If lupins are planted in the background of the mixborder, then plants below are picked up, but capable of closing bare stems, for example, any kind of daisy, perennial asters, hosts, low coniferous shrubs, cotoneaster horizontal, asters and chrysanthemums.

The benefits of lupine

In addition to decorative properties, lupine also has a number of useful properties:

• The plant is a wonderful green manure. In addition to decorative, there are feed varieties. But both are capable of improving the soil, like many legumes. They absorb nitrogen-containing substances from the soil and give back the pure nitrogen necessary for plant nutrition. The green mass of young flowers is often cut off and the land is plowed with them.
• Some people use lupine stems in paper making.
• The seeds and the beans themselves look great in various crafts.

• The pharmaceutical industry does not do without this plant. Squeezed from it is used in medical plasters.
• And it is added to cosmetics and soap because of its antioxidant and anti-aging properties.
• On some marine and river farms, lupine is added to fish food. Also, fur farmers add seeds to rabbits.
• Beans are used in cooking, they contain more than 300 kilocalories per 100 g.

Interesting about Lupine

In addition to all of the above, you can talk about this flower endlessly:

1. There are more than 200 species of lupine.
2. Long-term care is not required for lupine on Lake Tikalo in New Zealand, and no landing is needed. Here they grow self-seeding and in the photo very beautiful landscapes are obtained.
3. Flowers can be planted to scare away mice, as well as to lay out at home.
4. Lupine is a symbol of Texas State USA.
5. Contains more than 60% protein.
6. An arctic lupine was found with a seed age of about 15,000 years.

Lupine, one of the first few flowers to bloom in May, will surely delight gardeners with its flowering with proper care. And how to do this, look at the video.