lupins, callicarpa any advice?

What can you tell me about this two plants. Any experience?

 

I grow both here, what specifically do you need to know ?

Lupins are perennials, prefer the sun and seem to like impoverished soil.
Callicarpa is a shrub, reaches about 9', i have 'Profusion' and it produces lilac coloured berries (ornamental, not appealing to birds) 'profusely' :WINK1:
It'll be happy in sun or shade and most soils, they'll apparently produce more berries if there is another close by ... for pollination maybe ? ?

 

Callicarpa is a shrub, I have three of them. All are in a shady spot. I 've seen them in sun and they seem to get fuller there. But for my guys I am very happy with what they produce. In the spring, very tiny white flowers appear, nothing worth going crazy about. But in the fall a winderful cluster of shiney cluster of purple berries appear all along the brances. For the past several winters the berries seem to hang on even with the winter white snow on the ground, so the contract is very nice indeed. I have seen birds grabbing a few of them. I would not be with out a Callicarpa.

 

That's interesting about the birds Redstar because i read that they wouldn't be attracted, i'm glad that's wrong :D

 

Thank you for this, I have a clearer idea now about the two.

It is just that I found a couple of cheap plants yesterday and I was just wondering whether they have any chance of survival with me and how they are going to look etc.

At the moment I am not buying plants on full price or seeds because I know that I wouldn't have time to look after them, so no point even starting...

But this two were very cheap and "fainting" so I thought I will resuscitate them. If I am anything like my mum, she could bring back to life anything...