Growing Lupins

Although a traditional cottage garden plant, Lupins will grace any garden. They do tend to get ignored though and eventually lose strength. In this video,  Sam Youd, head gardener at the famous Tatton Park Gardens, shows how to properly dead head your lupins.

This will have two benefits, it encourages the plant to keep flowering and it re-directs strength back into the roots so the plant will improve year on year.

There are new hybrid varieties of lupins coming onto the market but the traditional lupin is still, for my money anyway, a perfect decorative flower.