A genus of about 10 species of vigorous growing perennials, some are evergreen or deciduous and are frost hardy to marginally frost hardy from South Africa. \u00a0Grown for their showy arching strap like, often dark green leaves and their abundance of summer blooming flowers. \u00a0The blue or white many tiny flowers appear off a 3\u2019 foot tall or more single stem that branches towards the top that arise to one point called \u2018umbels\u2019. \u00a0The umbels may be rounded, intermediate, or pendent and up to 8\u201d wide and individually flowers can be 2\u201d long. They spread by creeping roots above or below ground.<\/p>\n
Great plant for a background or edging, or even in a container or as a cut flower. They\u2019ll thrive in conditions of neglect such as dry slopes and near coast in full sun or some shade in any soil as long as it gets water in spring and summer. \u00a0Apply a balanced liquid fertilizer monthly from spring until flowering. \u00a0Remove spent stems and leaves at the end of winter. \u00a0They can be divided.<\/p>\n
Prone to slug and snails, Bacterial soft rot, Phytophthora root rot, Phythium root rot<\/i><\/em>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong>and bulb rots<\/i><\/em>\u00a0occur and leaf spots.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Agapanthus \u2018Blue Giant\u2019<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This clump forming perennial grows to 4\u2019 feet tall and 2\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0It bears rounded umbels of open rich blue bell shaped flowers mid and late summer.<\/p>\n Zones 8-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agapanthus \u2013 African lily-of-the-Nile \u2013 African blue lily A genus of about 10 species of vigorous growing perennials, some are evergreen or deciduous and are frost hardy to marginally frost hardy from South Africa. \u00a0Grown for their showy arching strap like, often dark green leaves and their abundance of summer blooming flowers. \u00a0The blue or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[30,21,60,22,23,28,16,31,20],"product_tag":[92],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254884"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}