Habitat: sunny places
Soil: gritty, well drained
Height: 60 cm
Flowering: summer
Width: 40 cm
Lovely summer-flowering plants, with fresh green upright strap leaves, and spherical heads of flowers. These are usually light blue, but there are darker blue and white varieties. The seed heads can sometimes be dried for winter decoration.
Agapanthus Headbourne hybrids has round heads full of trumpet shaped flowers. The strap-like foliage makes a tidy clump. It is considered as one of the hardiest hybrids, and you can expect this plant to survive at least down to -5 ºC, with occasional freezes colder than this. To be really sure you may want to protect the crown of the plant with a dry mulch, or bring it indoors to ensure successful over wintering. (We have never done this in eastern Scotland, and have had plants for many years.) This is a campanulatus form, named after the garden at Headbourne Worthy near Winchester.
9 cm pot £3.00
| Agapanthus albus produces magnificent large umbels of pure white flowers above strappy green leaves. | |
| Agapanthus 'Big Blue' has rounded mopheads of deep blue, trumpet-shaped flowers in late summer. | |
| Agapanthus 'Black Buddhist' is a recent introduction, with large umbels of flowers of bright violet blue on dark green stems. It is reported that when the sun shines on the flowers they take on an almost black hue, hence the name. That suggests either that someone has a vivid imagination, or that the laws of physics have been suspended. | |
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| Agapanthus campanulatus subsp. patens has large heads of bell-shaped light blue flowers. Clump-forming, strappy arching leaves are deep green. It is often grown in a dry garden, or gravel area. This species originates from South Africa and is borderline hardy, so in colder climates overwinter it in a frost-free glasshouse. | |
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| Agapanthus 'Lilliput' produces compact, rounded umbels of dark blue flowers above narrow green leaves. | |
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| Agapanthus praecox 'Underway' was named for 'Underway', the garden of the plantsman Norman Hadden. It produces umbels of pretty soft pale blue flowers above lush green strap like leaves. | |
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| Agapanthus 'Snowball' has lovely large heads of white flowers. |