Agapanthus.

Glazed pot it is then folks.?
I will leave in the plastic pot for this year and just pop the lot into a glazed pot.

MiniMoon my grandmother always chucked the remains of her tea pot over her hydrangea.
Even when she changed to tea bags!
So will give tea tip a go.
Glad its only every few weeks, will have to wait for a tea drinker to visit.

DH says to water your agapanthus once every three weeks or so with cold tea. Apparently it's very good for them.

I got one last year and it has been in a glazed pot outside all winter. I didn't know they weren't hardy! It has got at least 10 flowers on it now. My glazed pots don't dry out as quickly as terracotta and don't crack.

Cherrytree, I bought mine in Jersey years ago after seeing them everywhere almost growing like weeds but seas of beautiful blues everywhere you went. I too had to have one.

As others have said they like being overcrowded. I’d wait until after it has finished flowering before repotting. Terracotta pots dry out very quickly and plastic pots are advised! I know plastic!
I sometimes put my plants that are in plastic pots inside the decorative terracotta ones.

dragonfly I would love if and when it flowers for it to self seed.

I am trying to grow more 'hard working plants' and cut the purchase of summer bedding plants down slightly.

I have read that they need a well a draining compost mixture any advice?

EllanVannin It was an impulse buy.
I have lovely memories of visiting the isles of Scilly and seeing beautiful Agapanthus almost everywhere.

I have a few of these and they do better in pots where they can become potbound. I would not split it, at least not this year. They must self seed also as I have one growing between my paving stones. They are beautiful.

Thank you WW.?

I will change to a terracotta pot that is only slightly larger than the plastic one that it is in at present.

I would normally loosen the roots when planting but I will leave them tightly packed.

We have a sunny patio area that I hope will suit it

I have three stalks which have shot up from nowhere, beautiful deep blue flowers when they open later on. They're a few years old and I had five flowers one year, though maybe one or two more may be hiding in the foliage as there are lots of leaves.

They generally do better in pots and the good thing is that you can put them undercover in the winter, all my planted ones were killed by frost last year!

TBH I would leave it to see how it flowers. Agapanthus love totally crowded roots and don’t flower so well if not in the right conditions. If you do split it, it will take a while to settle and may not flower for a year or two.

They are lovely though.