lupins

• The flowering bushes were so thick that it looked like a small jungle, and in the slightest free space bloomed dahlias, lupins, chrysanthemums and other flowers Maigret had only seen reproduced in bright colours on seed packets, in shop windows; and it seemed as if the old lady had been determined to use every packet. —  Maigret And The Old Lady - Georges Simenon - 60
• Most viewing areas feature an abundance of poppies, lupins, monkey flowers and tidy tips. —  Local News
• We were soon enveloped in tunnels of tropical vegetation - orchids, wild strawberries, lupins, ladies slipper, fuchsia, salvia, Spanish moss —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• Some bulbs are perfect for rejuvenating beds where annuals are running out of steam and perennials such as lupins and delphiniums have been and gone. —  icNewcastle
• Sun-gilded trees and flower beds gay with blossom; lupins, snapdragons, nasturtiums, spiry foxgloves, and mighty hollyhocks formed the foreground; over which a pair of sulphur-tinted butterflies flitted, unmindful of a buxom and miraculously clean white cat which pursued them, dancing across the borders and clapping her snowy paws fruitlessly in mid-air. —  The Eye of Osiris

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