Interesting, Agathosma lanceolata is a spreading shrublet, with beautiful pink to mauve flowers carried in terminal heads. This buchu is an asset in any garden and is best displayed along borders or edges. It can also be grown in a container. Forming an open or lax shrub, it grows to a height of 500mm.
Individual flowers are large and form quite open terminal clusters.
They are white with a pink or mauve throat. The honey buchu flowers from April to July. The flowering bush attracts pollinators and bees and butterflies are regular visitors. Agathosma lanceolata occurs naturally on south-facing sandstone slopes on the Cape Peninsula. Growing Agathosma lanceolata Agathosma lanceolata does best when planted in a fairly cool, semi-shaded position such as the south side of a house.