Hello everyone, well as we are now on 8 week countdown to our hols we decided not to go out drinking and instead I dragged my lazy ass to the gym. Throat still niggly and a stupid cough but I feel so much better, had a very healthy tea and now drinking sugar free cordial
I love Agapanthus too and also have 3 I planted this year but they haven't flowered so snap Allium, I have lots of leaves too, hidden under the Hollyhock In Cornwall last year they were everywhere growing wild, that's when I fell in you've with them
Hi Allium2, It can take a year or so to get the first flowers, and then they multiply. I have some glazed pots with 7 plants in each. I now get in excess of 50 flowers in each.
There is a theory that they like to be planted in constrained, cramped conditions to replicate their natural environment where they grow in rock crevices. However some professional growers I have spoken to have said they are equally happy in open ground. Does anyone else have an opinion on this highly important question/
Well done OL, youve done more than me today, i couldnt bring myself to go to the gym! Glad your feeling a bit better
Ive got an agapanthus in the front garden- 8 flowers this year, apparently the key is to feed it well late summer and into autumn so it stores energy for the next year, stunning plant, havent had any seedlings tho Woody!
I often sow seeds into the gravel path in the back garden, it works really well, but im not good at marking whats what!
Mine are in a border, however it must be pretty root bound, its only 10ins wide at the most, arond 10 or 15ft long, there is 2 grapevines, a jasmine, a clematis, a rose, everlasting sweet peas, lavender, valerian, oxalis and campanula, ita also sun baked and has only been watered once or twice this year.
Take from that what you will- in the ground but root bound!
Pleased I'm not the only one with no flowers OL. Does give a bit more faith that it will be flowers next year - thanks Bekkie and Woodgreen. Will feed well and hope for some lovely flowers next year.
Bekkie -they are definitely growing in the same kind of conditions in my garden too! Its very free draining soil - very sandy, baking hot and surrounded by other plants. The leaves look really healthy though. .
Have your everlasting sweet peas been flowering? Again - lots of leaves but no flowers
Sorry, our posts crossed, the sweet peas have flowered, but that one is fairly old and was a self seeder! It sounds like your agapanthus will be happy, lots of flowers next year
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Hello everyone, well as we are now on 8 week countdown to our hols we decided not to go out drinking and instead I dragged my lazy ass to the gym. Throat still niggly and a stupid cough but I feel so much better, had a very healthy tea and now drinking sugar free cordial
I love Agapanthus too and also have 3 I planted this year but they haven't flowered so snap Allium, I have lots of leaves too, hidden under the Hollyhock
In Cornwall last year they were everywhere growing wild, that's when I fell in you've with them 
Hi Allium2, It can take a year or so to get the first flowers, and then they multiply. I have some glazed pots with 7 plants in each. I now get in excess of 50 flowers in each.
There is a theory that they like to be planted in constrained, cramped conditions to replicate their natural environment where they grow in rock crevices. However some professional growers I have spoken to have said they are equally happy in open ground. Does anyone else have an opinion on this highly important question/
Ive got an agapanthus in the front garden- 8 flowers this year, apparently the key is to feed it well late summer and into autumn so it stores energy for the next year, stunning plant, havent had any seedlings tho Woody!
I often sow seeds into the gravel path in the back garden, it works really well, but im not good at marking whats what!
Take from that what you will- in the ground but root bound!
Just going to be a bore and post this thread again as it was the last post on the page before, in case anyone was interested. WW saw it though.
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/talkback/gardens-we-have-visited-2014/325348.html
Pleased I'm not the only one with no flowers OL.
Does give a bit more faith that it will be flowers next year - thanks Bekkie and Woodgreen
. Will feed well and hope for some lovely flowers next year
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Bekkie -they are definitely growing in the same kind of conditions in my garden too! Its very free draining soil - very sandy, baking hot and surrounded by other plants. The leaves look really healthy though.
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Have your everlasting sweet peas been flowering? Again - lots of leaves but no flowers
You are making me very jealous Bekkie
. It'll be worth the wait!!!