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agapanthus phantom what do i do help

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    If it was mine I would take it out of the pot. Replant what is alive in a smaller pot. Evergreen Agapanthus need to be under glass over winter in the UK. There is another thread at present that might be helpful.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    I don't want to take over the original post, but I have been growing agapanthus in pots outside since 1969 (moon landing).  I now have five "hardy" varieties that have not appeared this spring.  (Forgetting my two evergreen plants wintered in an unheated greenhouse - I have already written them off.)

    In your case, I would follow Suze's advice.  

    In my case, it is back to th drawing board.


     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."
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I would take issue with @GardenerSuze, re evergreen Agapanthus, they do not need over wintering under glass in the whole of the U.K. 
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    @bede I have a deciduous one in the ground that is just hanging on.

     Elsewhere I have three plants of A Navy Blue. Border is west facing and they are planted close to a path. As they emerged this spring I have covered them with buckets one cold nights and they are doing well. Navy Blue is an excellent form always flowers well for me with a weekly feed. It is classed as a semi evergreen but it always dies back here.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    @punkdoc Yes I understand your thoughts. It would be interesting to know if this winter has been a problem for growers in the south and west?
    It can be difficult giving advice when you don't know where a poster lives, I try to be to be cautious.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    My deciduous ones - all planted in open ground - seem to be coming back OK. The biggest, latest ones aren't up yet. That may be because I've lost them or just that they aren't up yet. I have lost my evergreen ones that were outside in a pot in a very sheltered spot. They've been out for nearly ten years but this winter has killed them  :/
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Totally agree, @GardenerSuze. It was so much easier when peoples locations were displayed, although not everyone bothered.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    punkdoc said:
    I would take issue with @GardenerSuze, re evergreen Agapanthus, they do not need over wintering under glass in the whole of the U.K. 
    One deep blue evergreen aga is in a border at NT Polesden Lacey (appologies if wrongly spelt).  On a south-facing border and mulched over winter.  Polesden Lacey is definitely UK.

    Evergreen agas have colonised the Penzance area.  I haven't yet visited after this winter, but they survived, untouched, the "beast from the east".  Some locals don't think of Cornwall as England.

    I have an "Irishman's cutting" (apologies if that is not politically acceptable) from Sennen.  It is dark blue, 3-years old and has not yet flowered; it may, just may, have survived in my cold greenhouse.
     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."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    Funny. we have overlapping Agapanthus threads going on both "Plants" and Problem solving".  

    As a young marketing Turk, I was trained not to say "problem", but to say "opportunity".  The people in cutomer services used to substitute "issue".
     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."
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I left all my evergreen agapanthus out this winter, 70+. I might have lots a couple, but most are fine.
    Devon.
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