Vertigo

This almost makes me feel a bit dizzy, like looking down from a height.

Purple and White Lupine - up close

Here is the shot of its neighbour with bold purple and white flowers.

Up close and personal with Lupine

I hadn't realized until today, just how cool the individual lupine flowers are. They've got neat patterns in darker purple veins and several grade shades of purple all mixed in. I'll be really fun when they branch out. I've also planted 2 packages of lupine seeds in the back of the strawberry bed. The little seedlings are cute, and definately lupine with their many fingered leaves. I'll keep you posted to see if they grown much.

A Kind of Luppy View

Here is the other one that didn't work out yesterday

Lupine II

The one beside it is putting on a show in purple and white

Lush and Lovely Lupine

Here is one of the three I planted near the fence flowering in two shades of purple.

The lupine stalks at daybreak

Yeah - for the rare patches of sunlight in my shady and mosquito ridden backyard.

Pink Lupine

Here is the pink one - So far I have one pink, 2 white, and 4 purple. The colour of the last one remains a mystery, but I'm expecting it to be white also.

For the love of Lupine

These were on sale last week at Terra (where I work part time) and the New Brunswicker in me (I did live there 5 years, which is plenty long enough to get attached and grow a few roots) was thrilled every time one of these when through the check out line. For those of you not familiar with the Lupine in New Brunswick - then they are missing out and should visit NB in the early summer just to see them blooming wild along the highway in the southern parts of the province.