Be Kind, Lupine Etiquette
This year you will discover two lupine fields have been mown down. This action was not done lightly. After more than one year of bad behavior with a lack of respect for the lupine fields and for personal property, mowing the field was the best option for the landowners.
To preserve the remaining lupine areas and the beautiful views, please consider the following:
- Enjoy the blossoms and the view, but leave the area the same as you found it.
- Do not walk in the Lupines unless there is a mown path.
- If there is a beaten down path, that is not a proper path and was made by people that didn’t follow #1 above.
- Lupines bloom the 2nd year, crushing the small year-old plants means they won’t bloom next year
- Check for Ticks!! Prevent Lyme Disease.
- Ticks love lupines and love to hitch-hike on you and your pets.
- Even if you stay on pavement or road, you might have picked up a tick.
- Do not dig up Lupines. The taproot is usually 3 times their height
- Do not pick the Lupines. Seed Pods come after the bloom and provide both food for animals and seeds for future plants.
Visit the following Facebook link to see more photos of lupines in our area: https://www.facebook.com/LupineCelebration
Click on the year, to view past lupine photos from 2023 and 2022.
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Photos chronicle the growth and bloom of the Lupines from April 26 through the blooming season.
2024 Lupine Photos – Click on Photo for Full Resolution
July 31: The cycle continues. The seeds have been released from their pods and scattered.
July 8: Pods are drying out, soon they’ll open the lupine seeds will be released.
June 24: The rain brought in a bit cooler weather and if you search, you might still find a blooming lupine
June 24: Lupines hidden down in the field.
June 24: Lone lupine in the woods.
June 21: Most of Sugar Hill’s Lupines have seed pods now, you have to hunt to find blooms. Each individual lupine blossom will turn to a seed pod. Some will be eaten by animals but others will dry and split open releasing their seeds for future lupines.
June 19: Lupine don’t like heat. You’ll need to search the shadows and under trees. Also visit locations that are still a bit cooler like middle of Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch (lupines bloom a bit later there).
June 19: This field was full on Saturday, June 15 and now it is mostly seed pods.
June 18: Public Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust Field on Sunset Hill Road,
June 18: Field at The Sunset Hill House Inn
June 18: Lupine at The Sunset Hill House Inn
June 18: Tall Lupine at the Sunset Hill House Inn
June 17: Many of our lupine area are gray with seed pods but if you search the back roads you can still find small patches like this one that are at peak.
June 17: I found these lupines mixed in with a field going to seed. Even though lupines are past bloom, I don’t want to enter the fields because I’ll damage the younger plants that will bloom next year.
June 17: I found this plant by the side of the road and it has several spikes that are only half in bloom.
June 16: More and more lupine spots are going to seed, so now is the time to look for individual plants to photograph. Today’s best places to find blooming lupines would be at the Sunset Hill House Inn, on Route 117, one mile past Harman’s towards Lisbon, and on the dirt part of Grand View Road.
Out looking at Lupine and I found this fellow. He paced back and forth across the road in front of me and then sat down and stuck his tongue out at me. Sorry the photo is foggy but it was taken through my dirty jeep window.
June 15: Morning Shadows on Lupine field on Route 117, one mile from Harman’s Cheese.
June 15: Zoomed in shot of the Morning Shadows on Lupine field on Route 117.
June 14: Public Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust Field on Sunset Hill Road. Plenty of Lupines still in bloom with a few of the mountains in the background.
June 14: Lupines at the Sunset Hill House Inn. This weekend the Inn hosts a Craft Fair with some of our favorite artisans.
June 14: Lupines at the Sunset Hill House Inn
June 14: Lupine Field down by Sunset Hill House Inn’s event parking lot.
June 13: Our lupine areas are a mix of blooms and plants gone to seed but you can still find some beautiful spots and lupine to enjoy.
June 13: Plants are going to seed but if you look, you will still find lupines just starting to bloom.
June 13: Our lupine areas are a mix of blooms and plants gone to seed but you can still find some beautiful spots and lupine to enjoy.
June 13: I took a lot of photos today, to see all of them visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HarmansCheese/
June 12: Lupines on Grand View Road
June 12: Grand View Road
June 12: Lupines on Lover’s Lane
June 12: Private Field peeking through the trees on Route 117 up the hill from Harman’s Cheese before you reach the Community Church. No place to take a photo as you drive by, but you can park at Church and walk down the sidewalk to take a photo.
June 11: Lewis Hill Road in Bethlehem has several lupine fields along the road, all are past peak but beautiful, still.
June 10: Even though the Lupines are past peak at Pearl Lake, they are still beautiful!
June 10: Even though the Lupines are past peak at Pearl Lake, they are still beautiful!
June 10: Lupines at Pearl Lake
June 10: When you move in closer, you can see that some of the Lupines at Pearl Lake are going to seed.
Rainy Sunday Lupines, June 9th, at Harman’s Cheese
Rainy Sunday Lupines, June 9th, at Harman’s Cheese
Rainy Sunday Lupines, June 9th, at Harman’s Cheese
June 7 Evening: Field on Sunset Hill Road open to the public thanks to Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust.
June 7 Evening. Private field on Sunset Hill Road. Please do not block driveway and please respect private property.
June 7: Lupines at Sunset Hill House
June 7 Evening: Lupines at Sunset Hill House
June 6 – Lover’s Lane, Sugar Hill
June 6 Evening on Lover’s Lane in Sugar Hill looking toward Kinsman Ridge.
June 6: Grand View Road Lupines
June 6 Evening on Grand View Road, Sugar Hill
June 6: Some Lupines are past bloom and starting to make their seed pods.
June 6 Morning: Sugar Hill Lupine Field on Route 117 headed towards Lisbon.
June 6 Morning: Sugar Hill Lupines on Route 117 headed towards Lisbon.
June 5: Wish this photo had scent!!
The aroma of the freshly mown hay was wonderful!
June 5: Lupines at the Sugar Hill Fire Pond
Junr 5: Sugar Hill Lupine
June 5: Lupines at Littleton Regional Hospital.
June 4: Lupines on Dyke Road, Sugar Hill
June 4 Evening on Dyke Road, Sugar Hill
June 4: Lupines want to survive. I think this lupine was parked on by a car and flattened but it picked itself up and grew tall!
June 4: Ammonoosuc Concervation Trust Whipple Field. Next to Polly’s Pancake Parlor, Field open to the Public and is at peak right now.
June 3, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust Field on Sunset Hill Road.
June 3 Evening, Private Field on Sunset Hill Road. I took the photo from the road.
June 3, Field across from Sunset Hill House. It’s larger than I remembered from last year.
June 3: Bright sun this morning on these Sugar Hill Lupines.
June 1: Pearl Lake, Lisbon
June 1: Morning at Pearl Lake, Lisbon
June 1: The field at Pearl Lake, Lisbon
June 1 Evening: Grand View Road, Sugar Hill
June 2 Morning: Sugar Hill Lupines on Route 117 heading towards Lisbon
June 2 Morning: Sugar Hill Lupines on Route 117 towards Lisbon.
June 2 Morning: Sugar Hill Lupines on Route 117 heading towards Lisbon
June 1 Evening: Grand View Road, Sugar Hill
June 1 Evening: Grand View Road, Sugar Hill
June 1 Evening: Grand View Road, Sugar Hill
April-May 2024 Lupines
May 31: Sugar Hill Lupines
May 31: Sugar Hill Backroad Lupines
May 31: The fenced field at Sunset Hill House is full. Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill
May 31: Route 117 field just past Sugar Hill Village going towards Lisbon. Park in the vacant lot and walk across to take photo.
May 31: Route 117 field just past Sugar Hill Village going towards Lisbon. Park in the vacant lot and walk across to take photo.
May 31: I love the various shades of purple that you find in the Lupine.
May 31 Lupines
May 29 on Center District Road, Sugar Hill
May 29 Evening on Center District Road looking toward Cannon Mountain.
May 29 at the Ammonoosuc Conservation Field on Sunset Hill Road
May 29 on Sunset Hill Road
May 29 on Sunset Hill Road
May 29 at Sunset Hill House
May 29 at Sunset Hill House
May 28: Lupines at Polly’s Pancake Parlor. Easy to take a photo as they are close to the front door. Thanks to Emily for this photo.
May 28: A quick shot with my phone of the lupines on Lewis Hill Road in Bethlehem.
May 27: Lupine at Pearl Lake in Lisbon are looking beautiful!
May 27: Lupines in the field by Pearl Lake, Lisbon.
May 27: Lupines are unique in many ways and I this one plant is twice as tall as the rest in the field at Pearl Lake.
May 27: Roadside Lupines on Pearl Lake Road
May 27: Lupine are blooming on the sides of the road in Sugar Hill. They love the warm sandy soil.
May 26: Lupine at The Sunset Hill House.
May 26: Lupine at The Sunset Hill House
May 26: Lupine on Sunset Hill Road, Photo taken from the road.
May 26: Lupine are starting to bloom on Sunset Hill Road.
May 26: A field on Route 117 has pinks, blues and white lupines starting to bloom.
May 26: Lupine on Route 117 past Harman’s Cheese heading towards Lisbon. Parked in vacant “lot” and walked across road to take the photo.
May 25: Small Lupine Field at Sunset Hill House, a few more sunny days and it will be full of blooms.
May 25: Lupine at Sunset Hill House are coming along.
May 25: Lupines at the Easton Fire Station are usually first to pop but this year the later plants are growing quickly.
May 25: Lupines are starting on Dyke Road
May 25: Spring Flowers
May 23: Pearl Lake
May 23: Lupine are starting to bloom at Pearl Lake.
May 23: Roadside Lupines in Sugar Hill. The warm roadside created early full blooms.
May 22: Lupine Spikes, blooms coming soon!
May 22: First bit of Lupine Color
May 22: This early May heat in the 80’s is taking a toll on the Lupines in full sunshine.
May 22: Lupines in the shade are managing much better and reserving water drops.
May 19: Pearl Lake Lupine Spikes
April 26 Lupines
