Growing up in Berkeley, California, we had a few clusters of Agapanthus on the side of the house that just bloomed year after year with seemingly very little care. Today, as a garden and flower lover I appreciate agapanthus even more, and was so thrilled to see it in bloom at the beginning of August in Oakland, California, and specifically the Cleveland Heights/Haddon Hill area. Like many of my favorite plants, Agapanthus is a native of South Africa, and thus sometimes called lily of the Nile, or African lily in the UK. However, they are not lilies and all of the species are native to Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique), though some have become naturalized in scattered places around the world such as Australia, Great Britain, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Jamaica
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