Plant name

Plant family - Amaryllidaceae

Botanical name - Agapanthus

Common name - African lily, Lily of the Nile

Main cultivars - Various 

Plant description

Plant type - Evergreen herbaceous perennial

Plant size - In clumps 30 cm wide and 60 cm tall

Leaves - Evergreen broad green shiny leaves

Flowers - Flower from late spring to early summer. Flowers are rounded clusters made up of small blue purple bell-shaped flowers on stems up to 1m tall.

Plant requirements

Spacing - Space clumps 30 cm (centre to centre) or more apart

Sun or shade - Full or partial sun.

Water needs - Average. Keep soil moist but well drained.

Soil - Well drained acid, alkaline or neutral soil. Will grow in chalk, loam, clay and sand.

Tolerance - Rabbits, drought, salt.

Pests - None in general.

Maintenance - Low. Cut flowers at bottom of stem after flowering. Propagate all year, preferably from spring to fall.

Feeding - Annually with a balanced fertilizer before flowering.

Garden and home

Uses - Plant in garden in beds and borders, edging,  patio and container, side border against a wall, fresh cut flowers

Style - City and courtyard, coastal garden, gravel garden. Mediterranean

Consumption

As a rule, all plants including their flowers, seeds, roots and foliage must be considered unfit for human and pet consumption except if they are commonly known to be fit for consumption.

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