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sfskies
Find out which species is native to your area and grow it. You may have to find a native plant nursery or a seed source. I promise they will require considerably less care than any of the hybrids or European species or even species from another part of the U.S.
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Mary Grant Justin
I have a side yard that has DG where I used to keep my horses. Pretty much it just looks like a giant dirt area. I bought some lupin seed in hopes I could just throw them out, cover them with some potting soil and hopefully if we ever get rain here in Southern California they would pop up. Is this feasible or is it just wishful thinking on my part? I see them grow wild around here and love them.
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Pamela Bateman Garden Design
Mary Grant Justin~ If you collected your local wild seed the lupine might germinate in the fall and bloom the next spring if you are lucky. However, Mother Nature plants millions of seeds and sometimes they come up and sometimes they don't. The picture of the field of California native lupines that I posted above looked beautiful one year and then there were hardly any flowers the next year in the same field. So just keep trying local native wildflowers and you will eventually get something that takes. In Northern California I plant wildflowers at the end of October in expectation of our fall rainy season. Mother Nature is much better at this than we are.
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