Agapanthus flower head (blue)

Into the Blue: Agapanthus

Posted on by Ann Mackay

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I’ve been very busy in both house and garden recently and haven’t had so much time for photography here. (There has been a lot of change in the garden, which has created plenty of work to do. At the same time, work on the house has meant lots of rearrangement and change there too.)

But I have made time to visit a number of local gardens, so I’ve photographed flowers in them instead. That’s good, because it allows me to photograph plants I couldn’t otherwise. However, this is one that I should have been able to photograph at home. I left it a bit late, and my own agapanthus had too many flowers that were starting to go over. Happily, I’d already photographed these in someone else’s garden.

These flowers are actually a stronger colour than mine, which are a much paler blue. The individual flowers are a good size too. I find that my agapanthus can sometimes produce very small flowers and I wonder if it’s because they aren’t getting enough moisture. (I should probably water them more often!) If that’s the case, the extra rain this summer will have been a big help.

The blues of agapanthus are absolutely lovely, but they have other colours that are beautiful too. I’ve seen a fabulous deep purple that I like (‘Black Jack’), and I’m also tempted by some of the paler purples and a white tinged with blue…I would need a bigger garden to fit them all in! 🙂

Agapanthus flower head (blue)
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21 thoughts on “Into the Blue: Agapanthus”

    1. I sometimes have a white one come up amongst the first agapanthus I planted but it is erratic – haven’t seen anything from it this year. They do look beautiful – and especially elegant – in white. 🙂

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  4. Lovely photos Ann. Cornwall has masses of Aggies, I do like to see them in large clumps, but I grow mine in pots, I have the deeper blue, a pale lilac-blue and white and like you I quite fancy one of the darker ones.

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    1. Mine are all pale blue except for one white one. (Many came from a friend’s garden where they seed themselves around.) I can see me having to find space for some of the other colours… 🙂

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  5. I laughed at Jude’s comment. Here, ‘Aggies’ are students and graduates of Texas A&M University — Texas Agricultural and Mechanical. I was interested in Steve’s comment, too. They must landscape the roads differently in Austin than they do here. Agapanthus — and mostly blue ones — are quite common along the roadsides and in other commercial plantings here. Their blue isn’t as deeply saturated as these, but they are quite lovely.

    At a yacht club where I work, there have a bed of them, and a couple of years ago a white one popped up there. I’ve not seen once since, but you’re right that the white ones are especially elegant.

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