Plant in full sun to light shade and irrigate regularly to occasionally. Cold hard to 15-20° F and possibly lower with a good mulch cover.

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.

Agapanthus Twister comes from a breeding program conducted by Quinton Bean of De Wet Aloe Farm in Linbro Park, Johannesburg, South Africa and is the result of a second generation cross in 2006 between siblings of a previous cross between the large evergreen Agapanthus praecox subsp. orientalis and the smaller and deciduous Agapanthus campanulatus, which typically has dark pendant flowers. It was selected and named 'AMBIC001' in July 2008 as the single unique plant among the resulting seedlings from this cross because of it exhibited a vigorous and suckering growth habit, a long flowering period with bicolored flowers that are white with a dark blue base held in moderately dense umbels and good cold hardiness. This plant is smaller than the other two bicolored Agapanthus varieties that we grow, the similarly colored Queen Mum ['PMN06'] and our own selection, 'Delfina's Blush' that has the reverse color with a white base and petals blushed with blue, though both of these larger varieties are evergreen and not as cold hardy as Twister. Agapanthus Twister ['AMBIC001'] received US Plant Patent PP25,519 in May 2015 and is also marketed in the Sunset Western Garden and Southern Living Collections under their own proprietary name. In 2019 Agapanthus Twister received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM) from the Royal Horticultural Society. 

The information displayed on this page about Agapanthus Twister ['AMBIC001'] PP25,519 is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.