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trin writes:
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| Thanks for the question and all the answers it had generated. I've been
| wanting to ask this myself. My husband was in New Zealand and took
| photos of drifts of "wild" lupins on the roadsides. He would like to
| get the same effect in our new patch of garden so planted out two lupin
| plants hoping they would seed themselves. I was less sure of his chance
| of success. And the snails are really enjoying their new diet.

What is the soil and location? That could work in the east, on most
poor, well-drained soils, but would be tricky elsewhere. Where you
see lupins self-sown in the UK is often on old piles of gravel and
similar.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.