Gausialapis lubinas – Lupinus polyphyllus

Gausialapis lubinas

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Gausialapis lubinas
Latin plant name	Lupinus polyphyllus L.
English plant name	Bigleaf Lupine
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Flowerbed, parterres Clump, beds (mixborder) Groups Cemetery Wild plant parterre Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous
Spacing, cm	From 40 to 50
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very tall – 81 cm and over
Habitus	flower 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 period	1 month
General ornamentality	average decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	4
Group	short-lived perennial (grown 2-4 years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
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.