Grows well in full sun but will tolerate light shade. It requires water in spring and summer and the foliage hardy to about 25 degrees F. and is root hardy below 15. Tolerates coastal conditions, frost and neglect. It is a good cut flower for smaller arrangements.

The name Agapanthus is derived from the Greek words 'agapé', meaning "love" or "friendship" and 'anthos', meaning "flower" and it is for this reason that "Love Flower" is sometimes given as its common name, though there does not seem to be any colloquial usage of this name and the reason for naming as such remains unclear. Some have suggested that the translation could be interpreted as "lovely flower", "flower of love" or if the name originated from the word 'Agapeo' which means "to be contented with" it could just refer to a flower Charles Louis L'Héritier, who first used the name Agapanthus. A good accounting of this is presented by Wim Snoeijer in his Agapanthus: A Revision of the Genus Timber Press 2004 but essentially Carl Linnaeus (the father of modern taxonomy) in 1753 published the name Crinum africanum for a plant likely brought back to Holland from the Cape of Good Hope by the year 1679. In 1789 Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, the Director of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, changed the name of this plant to Agapanthus but used the invalid specific epithet umbellatus instead of preserving Linnaeus species name africanus. This mistake has perpetuated naming problems within the genus ever since. In addition, the common "Lily of the Nile" is often used for this plant even though this plant originated in South Africa and not along the Nile River.

The original Agapanthus 'Peter Pan' was a plant selected from A. orientalis var. minimus by Jimmy Giridlian at his Oakhurst Gardens in 1949. Unfortunately, this plant has been propagated by nurseries for many years by seed and it is possible that the original Giridlian plant was lost. There also is considerable variability in the seedling crops in the nursery trade and because of this in 1993 San Marcos Growers selected one particularly nice plant and from that point on propagated all of our crops vegetatively from this one clone. Initially we called this plant 'Peter Pan Select' to distinguish it from seedlings crops we were concurrently growing while building up our stock and this is how it is listed in Wim Snoeijer' s book "Agapanthus; A Revision of the Genus", but now with only the one clone in our nursery we have returned to labeling it simply 'Peter Pan'. We grew one form or another of "Peter Pan" from the beginning of our nursery in 1979 until 2012. 

Information displayed on this page about Agapanthus 'Peter Pan' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.