Lupin | Russell Lupins | root trainer

Colour mixed. Nitrogen fixing plant species, grows to 1.5m, suited to temperate climate such as North Canterbury New Zealand, requires free draining poor soils, makes a stunning display and excellent in forest garden for chop and drop material and self seeding nitrogen fixer.

Forest Gardens are orchards designed in such a way so the needs of the heavy bearing heavy feeding fruit trees are taken care of in the design.

We do this by:

• Ensuring no more than 60% of the canopy space is taken up by heavy feeders. We prefer 40%.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder canopy there is 0.8 of a square metre of nitrogen fixer.
• For every square metre of heavy feeder there is 1 comfrey plant.
• You have all seven (7) layers of the forest garden present.
• You have as wide a range of mineral accumulators present.

For more details about this see the Koanga Design Your Own Forest Garden Booklet