![]() ![]() In fact, most of the colourful garden lupines are the offspring of those developed from 1911-1942 by the British horticulturist George Russell (1857-1951). The British tend to refer to them as lupins. I’ve always added the “e” to mine, given that’s how the North American clan are usually spelled. Who doesn’t love lupines? Or lupins, if you like. If you’d like a little 4-minute bedtime story, have a listen to me reading it to my granddaughter Emma. ![]() Third, it honours the essential gardening impulse to “make the world more beautiful”. Second, it’s a story about enchanting lupines. I have a particular fondness for the award-winning book Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (Viking, 1982). ![]()
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