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Agapanthus africanus 'Albus'

From the Greek 'agape' ("love") and 'anthos' ("flower").

Received an RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Common Name

White African Lily

Soil

Sand or Chalk with humus (John Innes no. 3 for pots)

Sun Aspect

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Moist. Keep well-watered in the growing season. Drought tolerant once established.

Plant Type / Alpine/Alpine

Evergreen Perennial

Height x Spread in feet

2-3 x 2

Evergreen Foliage

Strap-like dark Green

Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit

6-petalled Pompom flowers. Trumpet-shaped, white flowers in rounded umbels in July-September

Comment

Clump-forming form. Plant with the crown just at the surface en masse in South-facing border or in a large container on the patio (either put the pot onto some broken crockery inside another pot with a hole 3 inches from the bottom for drainage and put the irrigation water into the gap between the pots, or use one of the Amberol self-watering planters). These upright, clump-forming plants prefer to be pot-bound, but do not allow them to freeze.

They should not be located where other foliage will grow over them. Divide the plants in March-April. Remove stems and cut to the ground as they die back in the autumn.

Plants for pest control against slugs and snails in Companion Planting.

Excellent cut flower.

Available from Kevock Garden Plants .

Broadleigh Gardens offers one of the largest ranges of Agapanthus plants anywhere.

Companions

Easily combined with kniphofia, crocosmia, phygelius, potentilla, iris and tropical foliage.

Also with Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' and Hemerocallis 'Pink Damask'.