Friday garden blogging

Lupines


This hillside along US Rt 2 in Veazie is covered with Lupinus perennis.

Channel 2 (WLBZ) teased us tonight with a story that they were cutting down lupines in Acadia National Park. I can't find an internet reference. The explanation from a Park spokesman was that they feel lupines are invasive and crowd out native plants. There goes my romance with this venerable late-spring flower that dots roadsides everywhere around here this time of year.

Update: The Bangor Daily News has the Acadia story here.