Agapanthus are one of South Africa's best known garden plants and are grown in most countries in the world.
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT
Agapanthus africanus subsp. africanus is found only from the Cape Peninsula to Swellendam, from sea level up to 1000 metres, mainly in mountainous terrain in acidic sandy soil. We find Agapahus africanus subsp. Africanus on the mountain slopes around Rooiels and there is a small colony in the Reserve. 
ECOLOGY
Fires stimulate profuse flowering and resprout from rhizomes. The flowers are blue. The rare white one we had in the Reserve, has not been seen for years.
The leaves are evergreen and strap like. Pollination is by wind, bees and sunbirds and the seeds are scattered by the friendly Rooiels wind.
Baboons and our local klipspringers sometimes eat the flowers.
CULTIVATING AGAPANTHUS
A.africanus is difficult in cultivation, needing very well-drained soil, hot, dry summers and wet winters. Practically all the evergreen agapanthus in cultivation in the world, are hybrids or cultivars of A. praecox, according to SANBI.