Lupin Puzzle Print

Along cottage garden borders and wild meadow edges, lupines stand like sentinels of summer, their tower spikes painted in shades of purple, pink, and white. These aren’t just pretty faces – they’re ancient allies in the art of growing, quietly working magic beneath the soil.

What looks like simple beauty reveals itself as garden alchemy: their deep taproots dive down like underground miners, cracking through hardpan and bringing buried treasures to the surface. Meanwhile, tiny bacterial partners living in their root nodules capture nitrogen from thin air, transforming it into plant food that feeds the whole garden community. When autumn comes and you cut them back, their generous leaves become perfect mulch, feeding the soil for seasons to come.

The pollinators know their secret too – on warm summer days, the flower spikes hum with the busy work of bees and butterflies, turning nectar into honey and ensuring the cycle continues. Permaculture gardeners have long recognized lupines as the ultimate team players, plants that give far more than they take, building soil while they bloom.

All my artwork is handmade and original with a mix of limited and open edition linocut prints plus digitally printed greeting cards. The prints are designed, made, pressed and pulled in my studio in the Laurentides, Canada.

Please note: Because of its handmade nature there may be tiny variations to the picture – be this colour, evenness of ink or other small differences.