The Headbourne Hybrids are among the hardiest Lilies of the Nile you can grow, with large, showy flowers in many shades of blue and lavender, plus white. They are superb in large containers, and make excellent year-round houseplants, their foliage as beautiful as their blooms! Excellent for cutting, they are long-lasting in the vase.
Growing the Headbourne Hybrids from seed is easy to do, but requires patience. The plant will bloom after two or three years and then for many, many years afterwards! Cover the seed lightly to sow, and germinate at about 75 degrees F. Germination takes anywhere from 3 to 5 weeks. Then grow the young plants on in full sun (or very bright light indoors), spacing them 2 feet apart in the garden. After the blooms, attractive seedpods arise to continue the color show! Zones 6-9. Pkt is 25 seeds.
An ideal plant for edging, borders (in warm climates), or containers, Agapanthus sports fragrant blooms for cutting and ornamental foliage. These tender Lily relatives grow from fleshy tuberous roots, sending up mounds of strap-like ornamental leaves surrounding leafless, 18- to 36-inch flower stalks. Fragrant, bell-shaped or tubular blue, white, or pink blooms, held in 1- to 4-inches umbels, are borne in summer. Most A. africanus varieties are perennial in zones 9-10
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
The Headbourne Hybrids are among the hardiest Lilies of the Nile you can grow, with large, showy flowers in many shades of blue and lavender, plus white. They are superb in large containers, and make excellent year-round houseplants, their foliage as beautiful as their blooms! Excellent for cutting, they are long-lasting in the vase.
Growing the Headbourne Hybrids from seed is easy to do, but requires patience. The plant will bloom after two or three years and then for many, many years afterwards! Cover the seed lightly to sow, and germinate at about 75 degrees F. Germination takes anywhere from 3 to 5 weeks. Then grow the young plants on in full sun (or very bright light indoors), spacing them 2 feet apart in the garden. After the blooms, attractive seedpods arise to continue the color show! Zones 6-9. Pkt is 25 seeds.
An ideal plant for edging, borders (in warm climates), or containers, Agapanthus sports fragrant blooms for cutting and ornamental foliage. These tender Lily relatives grow from fleshy tuberous roots, sending up mounds of strap-like ornamental leaves surrounding leafless, 18- to 36-inch flower stalks. Fragrant, bell-shaped or tubular blue, white, or pink blooms, held in 1- to 4-inches umbels, are borne in summer. Most A. africanus varieties are perennial in zones 9-10
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.