Rebecca posted a photo of lupins growing wild in New Zealand.
I'd love to go to New Zealand to see them for myself. However, if like me you don't have the spare cash or the opportunity then you might be interested in taking a trip put to the south downs in late spring.
There's a field next to the Petersfield to Midhurst A272 road which is full of pastel colour every May/June. It's a water colour artist's dream.
I've passed it many times as this was part of my patch.
The field was bequeathed to the National Trust by Jane Patterson-Lodge. Jane Patterson-Lodge - survivor of the Titanic disaster - in 1939 after the death of her husband Thomas on the condition that the field be left to the lupins.
Dan Pearson wrote about the Termick Lupins here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/10/gardens-lupins-dan-pearson
Sadly the lupins have succumbed to competition from other more vigorous plants and in 2009 a working party was set up to save the field and introduce new seeds.
If you'd like to visit, here's the location on Google maps:http://goo.gl/maps/XJ9QV
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