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African Lily of the Nile Evergreen Low maintenance ornamental Bright purple-blue flower umbelsFrom £14.94
Lupinus, West Country Range Pot Grown Herbaceous Perennials Colour: Warm orange Flowering: JuneRound flower umbels of intense purple, nearing black but remaining bright, in part due to their glossiness. The strap-shaped evergreen leaves are mid-green and glossy. Clump-forming to 60cm x 60cm and with a particularly long flowering period.
Agapanthus are only delivered pot-grown, year round.
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Agapanthus need full sun to perform properly and are not suitable for planting outside in colder areas: here they should be grown in a pot and brought under shelter in winter. Otherwise, if an extensive period of frosts or snow is forecast, it is best to cover them
Suitable for any well-drained soil, they like sharply drained, sandy soil in particular, but they will not flower well if they dry out during the growing season.
You can cut out the flowering stems when they fade, but many people prefer to leave some of them for a while to provide autumn interest, and remove them after winter cold blackens them.
Agapanthus look wonderful in serried ranks along the base of a wall, or in a large pot, where they make a bold statement. Their elegant tall but slender stems give height in the border without bulk. Grow with other sunlovers such as perovskia and salvias, and mix with other varieties. Also work with Mediterranean-style plants such as astranthia Star of Beauty, campanula lactiflora and eryngium bourgatii. In containers, try bordering with Erigeron karvinskianus and/or convolvulus cneorum and mixing with white agapanthus.
'Poppin' Purple is a prizewinner, gaining a Gold in 2020 in the HTA's New Plants Award.