Gausialapis lubinas – Lupinus polyphyllus

Gausialapis lubinas

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant nameGausialapis lubinas
Latin plant nameLupinus polyphyllus L.
English plant nameBigleaf Lupine
TYPE OF PARTERRE
  • Clump, beds (mixborder)
  • Flowerbed, parterres
  • Groups
  • Cemetery
  • Wild plant parterre
  • Solitaire
ASSORTMENTsupplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil
  • dry soils
Lighting
  • Heliophilous
Spacing, cmFrom 40 to 50
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height
  • very tall – 81 cm and over
Habitusflower with expressive habitus, for design as accent
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color
  • green
Blossom color
  • white
  • yellow, yellow tints
  • orange
  • red, red tints
  • violet
  • blue, blue tints
Blooming time
  • 1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade
  • 2-nd half of the summer - July Third Decade - August
Blooming period1 month
General ornamentalityaverage decorative
Ornamentality duration, months4
Groupshort-lived perennial (grown 2-4 years)
Bioecological groupPerennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, scrub division. To propagate the flower by scrub division is not easy, because the plant has a taproot. Self-sowing flower. 40-50 seeds per 1 gram. 1000 seedlings per 50-60 grams of seeds sown. Seeds are sown in beds in April. Seeds germinate within 2-3 weeks.