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Can someone ID this plant?

edjbutler67edjbutler67 Posts: 12
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Can someone tell me what this is? It looks fairly uninspiring until early summer when it produces large blue flowers on long stems. Sadly it didn't survive the winter and I'd like to get a replacement.
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  • edjbutler67edjbutler67 Posts: 12
    Note the photo-bombing hedgehog to the left!
  • owd potterowd potter Posts: 979
    Agapanthus?
    They come as deciduous and evergreen variants.
    Depending when that photo was taken, if it's deciduous they will die back anyway, maybe not lost? 
    Just another day at the plant...
  • DogmumDogmum Posts: 96
    Agapanthus?
    Tomorrow is another day
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes - agapanthus. Some are hardier than others. The deciduous ones are more hardy than the evergreen ones.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • edjbutler67edjbutler67 Posts: 12
    I'm 99% sure it's done for. It usually goes a bit droopy over winter but retains all its green leaves. This time the leaves have all yellowed and mostly dropped off leaving just a collection of 'stumps'.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The weather this winter has been quite difficult for many plants - wet/freeze cycles, and mild in between as well. 
    If it's normally evergreen, it's likely to have died, as they're the ones which are more susceptible to cold. Where you're located is a factor, because if it's usually e'green, you must be in a fairly mild part of the country.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • edjbutler67edjbutler67 Posts: 12
    Fairygirl said:
     Where you're located is a factor, because if it's usually e'green, you must be in a fairly mild part of the country.  :)
    I'm in the South-West, so yes, fairly mild.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Evergreen Agapanthus.  I bought one named perhaps not correctly:  "africanus 'Big Blue' " but I think that the species might be "praecox".  

    I moved a couple of big pot plants to my cold greenhouse to overwinter completely unwatered, as usual.  The tops have gone flop at prolonged -5ºC, but still green.  Dead near the compost.  Hopefully the roots may have survived.  For now, I am leaving the tops on for extra protection.

    They grow like weeds on the Penwith Peninsula.  They survived the "beast from the east",  but I don't know about this winter.
     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."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Where’s @Hostafan1? … he has loads of evergreen agapanthus and he lives in the southwest …. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    The evergreen ones need to be under glass through the winter if you want to be fairly sure of getting them through. They do need the top two inches of compost to be just damp. 
    I grow the deciduous A Navy Blue it is just through the soil.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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