Agapanthus orientalis 'PMB012'
Maxsie ™
Maxsie™ has beautiful heads of bicolour blue and white flowers with a unique mix of both six petal and multipetal flowers throughout the umbel. These mid height plants are better suited to smaller gardens than larger sized varieties. Ideal for borders and mass plantings or as features.
- Flower height about 40-50cm
- Flowers from mid summer to late summer
- May reflower at other times including autumn and early winter
- Plant width 36cm, foliage height 38cm, leaf width 4cm
- Offsets better than many other bicolour agapanthus
- Attractive broader compact foliage
- Evergreen
- Low seed set
Maxsie™ is an exciting mid sized, deep blue and white bicolour agapanthus. Over many years and lots of discarded plants we finally produced a mid sized agapanthus with lots of character, from its broader mid height foliage to its golf ball sized buds that open to reveal a balanced umbel of beautiful multipetaled and six petaled bicoloured flowers.
The name originated partly from the impressive size of the buds on short peduncles but also after the loss of our beloved dog Maxsie.
Maxsie™ is a vigorous plant, multiplying and flowering within 10 to 12 months from potting up tubestock by end February each year. A surprising feature is its ability to spot flower outside its main flowering seasson of mid to late December. Each year we have noted spot flowering in both autumn and early winter.
Whilst compact, Maxsie™ generally has more quality flowers than many other mid height agapanthus with a flower head numbers approaching the size of Agapanthus Queen Mum when grown under good conditions.
Maxsie™ is an ideal addition to smaller gardens because of its mid height compact size.
Why Maxsie™ ?
- Protected under the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994;
- Grown from quality tissue culture to ensure uniformity and stability of flowering;
- Attractive broader leaf compact green foliage;
- Vigorous growing evergreen agapanthus that readily offsets thereby reducing the time of production from plug to retail distribution.
- Capable of flowering in a 140mm pot in 10 months if tube stock is potted up before end February;
- Flower buds and umbel can be large, hence the name Maxsie;
- Attractive darker blue bicolour flowers with some flowers exhibiting multipetal characteristics;
- Whilst compact, MaxsieTM generally has more quality flowers than many other mid height agapanthus;
- Flowers from mid-summer to late-summer with spot flowering in autumn and early winter;
- Ideal size for optimizing freight space in distribution networks, shelf space in retail stores and ease of transport by consumers;
- Whilst MaxsieTM has lower seed set it is important to encourage customers to dispose of spent flower heads responsibly;
- Flower height is about 40-50cm, plant width to 36cm, foliage height 38cm with a broader leaf width to 4cm.
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