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Hi Can anybody help me to identify this plant. Thanks

Heather

 

It's an Agapanthus.. I think they are beautiful.

My mum says they like to be pot bound. I decided to split the tuber (or what ever they are called) and my best friend and I took a kitchen knife and cut them in 4 and stuck them back in the pot. Last year they were a little weedy.. but this year.. they are MAGNIFICENT! I've got about 12 blooms all it the same 12 inch pot!

I've only got the white ones.. but I they come in blue too http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/foliage-plants/agapanthus.jpg

[ 18. August 2005, 04:03 PM: Message edited by: Frangipani ]

 

Thanks, that's a great help. I think I need to go and buy a blue one now, they are beautiful!!
Heather

 

The blue one is beautiful

 

try agapanthus headbourne hybrid it works really well in a pot and if possible get hold of one called nicky it is the darkest blue :D :D

 

Thanks for the links, they are really helpfull. I have already got the white one, I inherited it when I moved house but had no idea what it was, so I just left it outside over winter. It's a wonder I didn't kill it!! It is flowering now..2 flowers which are about a meter high and look stunning. At the moment it is in a pot about the size of a bucket but I would really like to move it into a border.Thanks again.

 

Heather, best leave it in bucket or pot, if we get a hard winter, you may loose it...but make sure it has good drainage,or it could rot. Mine have just finished flowering, got 2 diff. blues and a white. So graceful !

Ladybird

 

If its the deciduous type its probably pretty hardy, given just a mulch.
I've grown them outside for years now, and used to mulch them but I dont bother anymore.
It 'll be better off planted out in the garden than kept in a pot if you do get some bad frost.