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Agapanthus - yellow stripes on new leaf growth

JDM-Happy-GardenerJDM-Happy-Gardener Posts: 3
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Hello - I'm new to this forum.  My agapanthus have survived the winter outside in their raised border but the new leaves are growing with yellow stripes.  They responded really well last year with an application of farmyard manure in the spring, which I applied again in March this year. I'm not sure whether to wait and see if they improve when they dry out a bit or if they are deficient in something?
Any advice very gratefully received.

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Welcome to the Forum.
    I think it's just a result of a very testing winter. 
    I'm sure ,as the season moved and warm weather returns, they'll go back to normal. 
    Devon.
  • JDM-Happy-GardenerJDM-Happy-Gardener Posts: 3
    Thank you Hostafan1 - I lost several Agapanthus in pots but the ground based ones have generally fared better.  I wondered whether a feed of Tomorite might help or to just wait for the farmyard manure to do it's thing?
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @JDM-Happy-Gardener I feed Agapanthus once a week from late and into Autumn I use Tomorite.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I think it's just the new growth.  It will probably settle down.  They look a bit early, where are you?

    I wouldn't overfeed agapanthus.
     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."
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    I can't say I've ever fed my agapanthus. I've seen them growing happily in huge numbers on the Isles of Scilly (where I first came across them). I don't suppose they get fed there - except the ones in gardens. 

    Last year one of mine produced over 90 stems of flowers. The only feed they get is bathwater - which I suppose has some microbes in!! B)
  • JDM-Happy-GardenerJDM-Happy-Gardener Posts: 3
    Thanks everyone - yes they do seem to have appeared quickly (I live in the East of England).  It seems that everyone has different and successful approaches to growing this beautiful plant :)
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