lupines

Updated: June 9, 2025

Under the stems of the ilex peep cyclamens, pink and sweet; the hedgerows are a tangle of vetches, convolvuluses, lupines, orchises, and alliums, with here and there a purple iris.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

From the veranda of a large, low-ceilinged sitting-room one looked out upon a garden of the olden type, full of moss-grown apple-trees, golden daffodils, lupines and sweet herbs, that pleasant mixture of the kitchen and flower garden which always seems so enjoyable.

Mrs. (Eliza Elder) Brightwen - Wild Nature Won By Kindness

So also should be considered the forage crops like basil, mixed fodder, vetch, alfalfa, snail clover and lupines. In rich land should be sown what ever require much nourishment, such as cabbage, spring and winter, wheat and flax. Certain plants are cultivated not so much for their immediate yield as with forethought for the coming year, because cut and left lying they improve the land.

- Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro