Every June, the Canadian Maritimes explode with a fireworks display of colorful lupines. Favoring acid soils with good drainage, this relative of the pea carpets gravelly areas near beaches, in roadside ditches, along hillsides and the edges of woodlands. Campobello Island, the west side of which is mostly glacial till, deposited after the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated 17,000 years ago, is particularly attractive to lupines, and it is one of my favorite places to see—and paint—them.
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