Which Agapanthus is Best for You?

Agapanthus are excellent garden plants, free flowering and richly coloured. They are resilient and tough, surviving in less-than-optimal garden conditions, perfect for problem places - and they grow happily in tubs and containers.

In fact some experts say that the restriction of their roots in the pots helps to encourage them to flower more. We find that even our little tubestock plants will flower in their pots in the nursery!

 

Agapanthus are available in all shades of blue from inky purple-black through summer sky, to baby blue and pure white. (There's even a unique new pink one!)

Here's our favourites:

 

For the Back of the Border

If you're looking for the tallest agapanthus to give you height and drama in your flowering borders - or to make very impressive container plants - we recommend :

Dark dramatic Agapanthus Black Magic has deep purple clusters of hanging bells, tall and elegant. It's the darkest agapanthus we offer.

Purple Cloud is very popular, also elegant with deep blue-purple rounded flowerheads on long stems.

The classic agapanthus, Blue is sturdy, clear sky blue, and seed-grown for subtle variation in colour and height to give a natural cottage garden feel.
White is Blue's counterpart, tall, clean, classy and lovely against a green hedge. Both are great value.

 

For Pots and Containers

These agapanthus will stay neat and tiny, ideal for windowboxes, patios, front-of-border planting and the smallest of spaces.

Compact Silver Baby shades its petals from a silver-blue tip to a white centre, a very pretty watercolour effect. It doesn't mind humidity either, great for coastal gardens; and it flowers from a young age (even as tubestock).

Tiny and perky, Peter Pan is a little cutie, with subtly striped pale blue blooms and slender foliage.

A little taller than Peter Pan, Queen Anne and Streamline both have pastel striped flowers and a light airy look, more like a bluebell - perfect for mixing into cottage garden flowerbeds.

Repeat flowering through the year in rich royal purple, Ozbreed's Sugar Plum™ is always a favourite when we have it available.

 

For Well-Behaved Borders

Agapanthus' resilience and vigour means that some varieties can get a bit rambunctious when times are good. Species forms (our 'blue' and 'white' varieties) have ornamental seedheads that are prized for floristry; but they can self-seed when planted in rural and bushland areas.

 

Named cultivars such as these varieties here won't take over your garden, and they set almost no viable seed, so will stay where they are planted.

If you want to be doubly sure, deadhead your aggies after flowering.

Queen Mum is tall (almost head height) with big flowerheads. Each floret is white at the tip and purple-blue a the base, very unusual.

Maxsie is the mini-me of Queen Mum, with the same unusual two-tone flowers in around one-third the height. They make the perfect planting pair!

 

Possibly the best-known sterile agapanthus variety, Black Pantha has almost black buds that open to deep purple flowers on metre-tall strong stems.

Buccaneer's dark purple-blue striped blooms will decorate your garden beds through the year; and the roots are great bank binders for erosion control. Beautiful and useful.

Snowball is neat and compact, packing a punch in the borders with big rounded white flowerheads for its size, ideal for mass planting.

If you love mini white agapanthus you can't go past the dwarf Double Diamond which will flower fast and generously in pure ice-white.
The individual florets are very open for an agapanthus, and have an intriguingly frilly look to the petals.

 

For Great Value Borders

Getty White is a "good doer", neat and compact with pure white blooms and slender habit; and an affordable price point if you are mass planting.

Ozbreed's Bingo Blue™ flowers off and on throughout the year in warmer gardens, with surprise bursts of rich colour.
This variety will flower while still a very young plant - the photo shows our tubestock flowering in the nursery - so you won't have to wait long for beautiful blue blooms.

Cool Steel™, Ozbreed's latest release, will give you near football-sized globe flowerheads on short sturdy stems, for the most impressive balcony pots ever! Each flowerhead is a watercolour sea in shades of blue. Stunning.

 

At the start, we promised you a pink agapanthus : here it is! Blush Pink is one for connoisseurs of the rare and unusual, and for lovers of pretty pastel plants.

It comes from the same breeder as Bingo Blue, Buccaneer, and Sugar Plum - fantastic varieties all - and sells out almost the moment we get it in stock.

 

So you can see, whether you have suburban flowerbeds, rural acreage, or a pot on the balcony - there's an agapanthus to grace your garden.
Which is your favourite?