White Agapanthus Seedees????
How did this year go? I have got fine healthy leaves, and I am going to
protect them as I did last year, they are proving as stated, that they take 3 years to flower! I have found seedlings underneath one in the ground, and I am going to have to protect them from frost this year I think, they are about 4inches tall, what do you suggest? |
White Agapanthus Seedees????
On 11/10/2010 07:58, sheila wrote:
How did this year go? I have got fine healthy leaves, and I am going to protect them as I did last year, they are proving as stated, that they take 3 years to flower! I have found seedlings underneath one in the ground, and I am going to have to protect them from frost this year I think, they are about 4inches tall, what do you suggest? Hello Sheila, Sadly, I have only one plant left :~(. I was doing really well, having 31 good plants, until we had a searingly hot period of drought in the summer. RG, meaning well I'm sure, went out and set up the sprinkler. Although I warned him not to let it 'rain' on anything close to the house (where I can manually water special plants more carefully), he set the sprinkler to have a wider rain pattern. When I was finally able to go outside, I found that the Agapanthus plants were wet through, still in full sun, and looking very sick. Clearly, they had held water in the crown which had boiled in the intense heat. Having had this happen to some Allium plants a couple of summers before, I left the plants to drain and dry out so that I could check the roots (many of the Alliums had survived). When I subsequently looked at the roots, they were all dead, except for my one remaining plant which had been on the periphery of the sprinkler pattern. This one plant is doing very well and even has a mini-offset at the base. It has leaves 3-4" long. I may very well bring this plant indoors for the winter in my cool garden room. Hopefully, I can keep it going until it flowers, after which I can collect seed. Fingers crossed. Can you protect your outdoor seedlings by coralling the base of the entire plant (parent plant included) with scrunched-up chicken wire, then packing around that with fleece or bark? I assume the parent plant is fairly hardy since it is in the ground, but some extra protection wouldn't hurt. I've got all my flowering size Agapanthus in pots and generally bring them in to the garden room in winter, together with my dahlias, bulbines, Isoplexis et al. It's often a bit crowded :~). -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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