Tags: hardy perennial, herbaceous perennial, lupin, lupinus, perennials from seed ‘Mini Gallery Blue’ is very short, but only comes in one colour. ‘Russell Mixed’ is the old favourite, in a wide range of vivid colours, but at 4ft (1.2m) can be too tall for some spaces. Variety choice is not extensive, I have to say. When the young plants are filling their cells, move them into 7cm or 9cm pots, for planting in the autumn, or plant them straight out. The lid will keep slugs and mice out but if you don’t have a lid to hand you’ll need to protect not only the emerging seedlings, but the freshly sown seeds as well. Place the module tray in a light, cool and shaded place and cover with a plastic lid. Make sure that the compost is moist before sowing, make a little hole about a quarter of an inch deep with the point of a pencil in each cell, drop a seed in each hole and then add a little more compost to cover the seeds.
Lupin seeds are quite large so you can easily sow one seed in each cell.
POPPY SEEDLINGS TOO LEGGY PLUS
Sow lupins now and they have the rest of the summer, plus the autumn, to develop into fat plants that will wait through winter and surge into growth in spring, producing far larger and far more prolific plants than those sown in March. At this time of year we don’t need a greenhouse, we don’t need heat, all we need is fresh compost, trays, perhaps a clear plastic tray cover – and probably a mouse trap. Sowing seeds of perennials is something we should all do, and we should do it now.
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