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Agapanthus 'Black Magic' & Strawberry Ice

VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
Well last year i planted a Agapanthus Black Magic & Strawberry Ice in the same pot hoping to get a black & white effect. The Black magic has one flower but the Strawberry Ice has none at all. Is there anything i can do to get more flowers?.

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Oddly enough Voyagerxp, my sis-in-law was asking the same question at the weekend, She has a white and a blue agapanthus but in separate pots. Her white one is smothered in flowers but as yet there are none on the blue one. I advised her to feed with tomato feed and cross fingers. Don't give up on it. That Black Magic is quite spectacular.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    More pic of the flower now opened, can't wait for new blooms maybe next year.




  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    Yes i think so pansyface, i only potted them last year so they probably need longer to get pot bound.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    What a beauty. Please take more pictures as it opens further.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    I planted three Agapanthus Black Pantha (great name!) plants in a bed last autumn, and I have just one flower from the lot of them, just emerging now! Loads of very healthy leaves, so I'm guessing they just need another year or so to get established. I too wanted a very dark one, and looks like your Black Magic may be even darker... maybe I'll get some of those for next year...
    Lincolnshire
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Janie, yours is still a very striking plant. Wonderful colour.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited July 2018
    My Black Pantha


    And Black Magic


    Both are significantly darker than these photos suggest. Sorry. 
    I've yet to see an agapanthus darker than Black Magic.
    Devon.
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    Thought id throw this picture of my Agapanthus Phantom flower, ain't it beautiful.



  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm so pleased you posted that . I'd forgotten the name of that one. 
    Devon.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    So delicate that one.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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