On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:48:39 +0100, Steve Jackson
wrote:

~I have a number of these Agapanthus plants in containers on my patio,
~and have fed and watered them religiously this summer, having kept them
~indoors frost free all last winter, bringing them back outdoors in May.
~Several of them are large plants, but none of them have flowered this
~year at all - not one single flower stem!
~
~Anyone offer advice on what I may have done wrong please? Are they worth
~over-wintering again?
~
Funny there should be a lot of blind agapanthus threads this year. It
was one of the questions on GQT yesterday! Apparently a lot of them
haven't done well this year (I have not got any flowers either in my
oldest well-establised roots) because last year was so hot they set
viable seed. People left these seed heads on which depleted the
plants' supplies and so they didn't flower this year.

Their advice was to cut off the flower heads once they have died back,
so they don't waste energy on seed production. To the comment , 'but
they're pretty!' Bob F said to cut them off, stick a matchstick up the
stem and stick it back on!

Yes they are well worth the effort. Very few flowers are that clear
blue.
I did get flowers on my Agapanthus Streamline (a miniature evergreen
variety - really pretty) and on my cheapo 9-for-£9 potful. I bought
the crowns of the latter two years ago and had two flower stems this
year - one more than last year. Hopefully this will improve as they
get bigger and one day I'll have a really spectacular display.
I overwintered the £9 pot in the conservatory - bit too warm so the
first flowerhead was in April! Streamline I left outside accidentally
but it did fine (evergreens are less hardy) and the others are in a
border.


--
jane

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