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Quote from: Uli on Today at 03:10:33 PMAgapanthus are very greedy plants. Any general fertilizer will do the job. Or composted horse manure.

Hmmm... I wonder if they would appreciate composted chicken manure?

Agapanthus are very greedy plants. Any general fertilizer will do the job. Or composted horse manure.

Agapanthus...

A few years ago I stumbled across some agapanthus with dark blue/violet/purple-ish flowers that really caught my eye. Fantastic rich striking flowers for my garden! Ever since purchasing my first couple plants at HD, I've been on the hunt. Since then, I've found other color variants, some of them dwarfs or semi-dwarfs with incredible flower color!! A couple are supposed to be dark purple, and one a very dark purple with almost qualities of black to the flowers. Most of these I've pictured are in their second or third blooming season in the ground, and some are not looking as good this year. I've lost a few too. They just fade away to nothingness 😒

The first picture shows a clump I planted together of three different flower colors, and three different sizes- dark rich blue flowers standard size, blue and white flowers semi-dwarf, and a more purple-blue flowers a dwarf.

While these are not "species" Agapanthus, these flower colors caught my eye as wonderful additions to our garden.

Cheers 🍻

BTW... anyone know if I should be applying any special fertilizers to agapanthus? I sure would Love to get them flowering fuller, and with healthier flowers!

Quote from: Arnold on Yesterday at 01:27:10 PMAgapanthus is most surely  a geophyte.

Thank you Arnold. I'm still a Newbie here in this "bulb" world of PBS peeps! 

Here's a silly question, as you said...geophyte. If that's what the society covers, why isn't it the PGS? 

Agapanthus plants in Helsinki, about 4- 5' tall in big pots 

You can always check the PBS wiki (Agapanthus praecox

(link)) if there is any doubt about the bulbiness of anything. We're not so bothered on the forum - any sort of plant is OK. It is agapanthus flowering time here at the moment. My modest efforts are being out classed by my neighbour's huge clump of flowers.

Agapanthus is most surely  a geophyte.

Well...wasn't expecting to have flowers in the mid 90's+ of late July. But here they are.

Crinum Macowanii (believed to be)

And, I wonder. Is Agapanthus a plant that falls under the PBS umbrella?

All the members who have participated in the recent bulb order from SA have been notified.

If you ordered and haven't received an email form me, please write me at arnold140@verizon.net.

Arnold

Thanks, Robin.

My point is, if the original author said erect flowers, the real plant has erect flowers. Or he could have been misled by seeing only a dried specimen, too (artifact due to how the flowers were pressed). I need to get an image of Thunberg's specimen to try to ascertain this.

I'd be very grateful if you could share photos of the flowers in your area.

According to the research I mentioned (and to Rafinesque, in the 18th century) the species with 6 fertile stamens "clearly" do not belong in Albuca and thus it has alternatively been "splitted" into Coilonox, Eliokarmos, Trimelopter, etc., or rather these "Rafinesquian genera" have been resurrected / reinstated / claimed.

Peter Goldblatt is retired, but Manning is still active and to some extent "fighting back" the Spanish team, for example swapping Trimelopter crispolanatum and Eliokarmos humanii (published in 2020) to Albuca and Ornithogalum, respectively, just because he does not accept Eliokarmos, nor Trimelopter....  When experts don't work for knowledge but for their own conceptions, knowledge itself suffers.

Who is right? I don't know, it's not that I'm Spanish but I tend to think that lumping is not the solution with these plants. I would probably be OK with a treatment with subgenera, but Manning & Goldblatt stuck to Ornithogalum and the Spanish team claim that the genera are well defined (monophyletic) and stick to their approach of separate genera.


Personally, I just want to know what Albuca viscosa is.

Carlos