>I purchased an Agapanthus "Ellamae" from Plant Delights two years ago >and it flowered the first year outside here in Northern NJ. I place it >on the patio in the summer and under an east facing window in the >winter. It has thrived beyond description. I took it outside to size >up for repotting and separating the twelve plants that were one initially. > >Pulling the root ball out of the pot I said "something ate the soil". >There was a massive root ball and barely a hint of potting soil. > >Question, how to separate the twelve plants. Seems to me to be >impossible to do it without tearing or cutting some of the root mass. > >Advice please! > >Arnold Arnold: I don't know about that cultivar, but I do know have experience with some agapanthus that I have growing; they didn't (don't) mind tearing and hacking at all...that's the only way I increase and spread them. Except for a giant white that I grow, the others seem to be a tangled mass of roots and bulb/cormlets. Roy