@uff Due to our horrible Summer in London, mine didn't look that great. Not so much the Agapanthus themselves, which are in pots, but everything else around them. Here's a photo from last year.
Agapanthus hate shade. They won't flower in full shade and will lean away from from nearby shade. Years ago I saw an agapanthus trial at Wisley. The plot was high up on the North end of the Portsmouth Field, with Battlesdon Hill trees behind. All the flowerheads were leaning away from the shade; gravity and the slope made this worse; any rain would have flattened them. I can only flower them in pots. I like the darkest blues. I was recently tempted by a postal offer in the Telegraph (Thompson & Morgan it turned out). The variety was called "Flower of love", but maybe that is just a translation on the Greek agap-anthus. The original offer was oversold and mine arrived as very small plants that took 4 years to flower. But much smaller than I had expected. For Uff, the leaves are 6in, the floweres at 1 ft.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
My Fireworks is just coming into bloom. When I bought it last year I thought I might have made a mistake in buying it but it seems this year I really like it. Showery today so pic a bit dreary.
My daughter came back from a holiday in Portugal, the Douro valley, and said agapanthus were growing wild everywhere on the cliffs and rocks and the blue flowers were wonderful. Someone else said recently that they grow on the coast in Brittany too. I think I need to mollycoddle mine less!
They grow very well down here on the Isle of Wight. Mine self seed, too. My soil is very wet in winter so I can't over-winter the evergreen ones outside but the deciduous types usually do very well.
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Can anyone recommend miniature ones please? I'd like to try some for placing on the top of the wall.
I can only flower them in pots.
I like the darkest blues. I was recently tempted by a postal offer in the Telegraph (Thompson & Morgan it turned out). The variety was called "Flower of love", but maybe that is just a translation on the Greek agap-anthus. The original offer was oversold and mine arrived as very small plants that took 4 years to flower.
But much smaller than I had expected. For Uff, the leaves are 6in, the floweres at 1 ft.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=188&fromplants=pl_id=182
My Fireworks is just coming into bloom. When I bought it last year I thought I might have made a mistake in buying it but it seems this year I really like it. Showery today so pic a bit dreary.