We started out with some old mostly blue and purple lupines that had been left to themselves down in the grass. I threw a packet of seed that someone had sent me in the plot a couple of years after we got some of the grass and most of the goldenrod down to where you could actually see the lupines. A couple of years later, we had some pink ones and a few white. A couple of years after that, we had some with mixed colour florets. I'm not sure where the reds and salmons came from, but they showed up four or five years ago. We let the seed ripen before we mow them down and every year is a surprise. The Amish ladies call it my 'wild' lupine patch. Of course, to them, anything not weeded and mulched within an inch of its life is 'wild'. I think they probably shake their heads about my yard - lots of 'wild'!
