Baby lupin queryh

This the first time I've ever managed to keep lupins - and the first time they've re-appeared after the winter. Previously they'd always died down as they usually do, never to emerge again.
I think I'll put this baby in a bigger pot and put it next to the lupins in the earth, and wait and see.

And why not serve up a side dish of hostas !
I'm planting some more lavender today .
In the summer I relied on pelargoniums .
I think that my garden is the only one , in a row which is dug over ( ok not as much as before ) and planted out so it really is tempting to slugs , snails , foxes and cats .
My immediate neighbour has a growing collection of pretty plants in pots on her patio .
On the other side is the non garden tending recluse .
Otherwise , most gardens around mine are just laid to lawn with a few trees and shrubs or pretty much covered with big patios and paving .Most of my neighbours don't really like gardening and in fairness to them don't have the time .
The rains are heavy and the storm drains compromised .
There is less soft ground for the excess water to go to .

My little grandsons scout club had a fundraiser selling seeds earlier this spring. I ordered $30 worth of assorted perennials and popped them all around my garden. Only one seed out of the entire lot grew, it was a lupin! I have great hopes for it spreading everywhere but I’m not holding my breath.

Lupins are lovely. But I've given up on them as they seem to be slugs favourite food.

I don't grow them anymore as they were always covered in aphids - if the slugs hadn't got to them first

I had 6 lupin plants given me I potted them and shored them up with fine gravel mashed up egg shells and net and still the blxxdy snails or slugs ate 3 down to the ground I ve
re enforced the anti snail stuff round them and hoping they ll survive as the roots are ok
They really love them so much, chomp, chomp, chomp

Whethertomorrow

I planted 20 lupins in my garden, the flipping slugs enjoyed every single one.

Mine all disappeared too.

Planting lupins is like ringing the dinner bell for slugs !
I might as well call :
Come on , slugs - your food is ready !
And hurry up , before they get dug up and sat by foxes and cats .
I'm too polite to add what happens next !
Just describe it as the neighbourhood lavatory !

I planted 20 lupins in my garden, the flipping slugs enjoyed every single one.

Lucky you !
I'd pot it up and wait for Spring .
I love lupins and delphiniums and they fail in my garden .
I think that next year -I'll have another attempt at growing them .
I'll be completely enclosing an area with netting so that aren't sat on or dug up by foxes and cats !

Re-pot but no need to keep in shed. Just watch for slugs/snails when it comes up again in spring. You could plant out then, or just put in a big pot.