African Lily

This summer blooming plant is a perennial grass from South Africa, featuring long strap-like rich green leaves which make a quite decorative cluster. The flowers are born on long flower stalks, and are actually multiflorous umbels, a nice blue, more or less deep. Those flowers are not only big and showy but do last quite a time before wilting.

It has to be grown in a sandy rich soil, on sunny exposure. A winter rest with a much reduced watering will greatly help in promoting a generous flowering on the following season. Old clumps may be divided so as to produce more plants; this is done by uprooting the plant after flowers are gone and slicing the rhizomatous roots with a knife or machete. Plants grown from seeds will not be able to flower before the second year of cultivation when the rhizome will be big enough.



L'agapanthe est à cultiver dans un substrat sableux riche en éléments nutritifs, en exposition bien ensoleillée. Un repos hivernal avec arrosage réduit au minimum lui permettra une floraison généreuse la saison suivante. Les touffes âgées peuvent être divisées pour donner d'autres plants. Le semis ne donnera une plante apte à fleurir qu'à partir de la deuxiéme année de culture.