Origin: South Africa
Flowering colour: different shades of blue/white.
Flowering period: July-August
Average plant height: up to 100 cm
Planting depth to base of the bulb: just deep enough to cover the rhizome.
Spacing between bulbs: 20 cm
Type of bulb: perennial
Light requirements: full sun is essential (AM sun)
Landscape uses: borders and containers
Agapanthus is sometimes used as a border plant, but is mainly a pot plant. During the winter, the pot or container should be taken indoors and grown as a greenhouse plant.
Agapanthus are divided into two groups
1 Evergreen group (Intermedius type, for example, variety ‘Donau’) which you can keep over the winter as a container plant indoors;
2 Leaf-losing group (for example, ‘Blue Triumphator’), which die off before the winter and can be stored in a cool place.
Principal varieties
- ‘Blue Triumphator’ – blue
- ‘Donau’ – light blue
- ‘Albus’ – white
- ‘Kobalt’ (a small flowering variety – 30 – 50 cm high) – blue
- ‘Intermedius’ – dark blue
