Download Agapanthus `Queen Mum` | African Blue Lily

Agapanthus ‘Queen Mum’ | African Blue Lily
Found in the Courtyard at Pensthorpe Natural Park!
Something to pep up the borders in July and August or make a
stunning pot plant, 'Queen Mum' has strappy leaves which are
evergreen and soaring stems topped by rounded flower heads made
up of white trumpet-shaped blooms with a violet-blue base.
Agapanthus will reach around 120cm, and need space to show off
their best. They look good
planted
with
golden-
or
grasses
such
glauca
and
smaller,
grey-leaved
as
Festuca
Hakonechloa
macra ‘Aureola’. The flower
stems
addition
make
to
a
dramatic
a
flower
arrangement and the dry
brown
seed
heads
add
height and structure to the
garden as summer fades.
African lilies need full sun to thrive and like soil that's moist,
particularly after flowering, but hate to be waterlogged once they've
died back in winter. Traditional it was thought by restricting the roots
in a pot the plant would flower more, but being too pot bound will
not produce more flowers.