Agapanthus 2010

[Renate Brinkers]

Zephirine,

`SunfieldŽis a good hardy cultivar, here it survived -15° in the garden of my mother in law, without any protection (I told her to protect it but...)

[PeterT]

Hans

How have you found Agapanthus 'Double Diamond' to grow? It was released here in SA in 2006 and I was lucky to be given a plant at the launch. It looked great in flower, good planted in the garden and then disappeared! A number of people I spoke to had similar experiences in terms of their plants suddenly dying off.

sounds like microprop Calvin , some plants produced this way need a year or two to be hardend off for the great outdoors 

[Graham Catlow]

Agapanthus 'Lilliput' or not

I bought two plants named 'Lilliput' from the same place several years ago and have divided them several times to get to what you see today.
However, if you look closely there appears to be two different forms here.
The group in the left foreground flowers a week or so earlier than the rest. It is slightly paler and the inflorescens is not as globular as the others.
1&2 group photos
3 is a close up of the paler one.
4 is a close up of the other.

These are just for you to see I'm not looking for an ID.

Graham

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, Graham, I can't tell you what they are called....but I can tell you they are glorious.  Really lush.... I'm green with envy!

[ArnoldT]

I may have posted this before.

[Maggi Young]

Wonderful colour, Arnold.
 'Ella Mae'  makes me think of the Clampett's  / 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and the very pretty 'Elly May' played by Donna Douglas ! !
Ah, they don't make TV like that anymore! sigh!!

[mark smyth]

I have an Agapanthus in a very bad position where it gets no direct sun, when it shines, until after 3 pm. In 2008 it had 17, if I remember correct, flower stems. In 2009 it failed to flower. This year it has over 30 flower stems. Not bad for a plant growing in pure peat and semi shade

[mark smyth]

I went out to take a photo that my Agapanthus doesnt get full sun after 3pm. It's actually in semi shade due to a large cut leaf Sambucus

[Maggi Young]

It is looking good there, Mark.

[mark smyth]

It does and you can see just how much shade is cast on it

[Graham Catlow]

Crikey, Graham, I can't tell you what they are called....but I can tell you they are glorious.  Really lush.... I'm green with envy!

Thanks Maggi, I've felt the same as you many times when I've opened a bulb log and see what you create.

Graham

[Gail]

Some of my agapanthus.
'Cedric Morris' has pretty flowers touched with pink but the stems don't hold the flowerheads well; I made the mistake of planting it next to the front drive and the flowers always flop onto the drive and the next person to pull in runs over them....
'Midnight Star', reliable dark blue
'Yellow Tips', not very yellow and quickly fades to white
'Silver Mist' - a real star in the garden.  Very vigorous with really good sturdy stems of silvery blue flowers.  I think it would probably like to be evergreen but comes back reliably after the winter.

[Lvandelft]

Gail, Ag. Silver Mist is looking very interesting with those short stems. Nice color too and a good flowerer.

[Gail]

Gail, Ag. Silver Mist is looking very interesting with those short stems. Nice color too and a good flowerer.

It was raised by Dick Fulcher who has a National Collection of agapanthus at Pine Cottage Plants in Devon
http://www.pcplants.co.uk/index.cfm

[monocotman]

hi there,

a plant that has flowered this year for the first time.
Phantom is a lovely white with blue shading on the tips.
The recent success with tissue culture of this genus has resulted in many new varieties reaching the market.
I really want to see this as a mature plant in a big pot.
I doubt that it is very hardy so it will spend the winter in a cold greenhouse.

David