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Freeport Gardening Guide: Agastache

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Agastache

Agastache Seeds, Fragrant Delight Mix:

Description: Deliciously fragrant flower spikes in apricot, grape, and raspberry colors! Prepare for the buzz of a diversity of beneficial insects and hummingbirds! These 2-foot tall plants are a welcome addition to the pollinator garden.

A bouquet of Fragrant Delight Mix Agastache on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Anise Hyssop:

Description: Beloved by pollinators and tea aficionados alike. A perennial that blooms in the first year, it is hardy from USDA zones 4-8. Considered extremely easy to grow, this is a top choice for beds, borders, herb gardens, and even containers. The leaves and flowers are used to make one of the best herb teas; the foliage possesses a naturally sweet, wonderful anise taste and fragrance. Pretty purple flower spikes that bees love! There are myriad medicinal and culinary uses for this amazing plant.

Anise Hyssop flowers in an arrangement ina ceramic cup on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Apache Sunset:

Description: Fragrant, minty, root beer-scented flowers and foliage make this deep orange and purple-tinted bloomed agastache a phenomenal tea plant. The hummingbirds, butterflies and bees find the plant irresistible, and we love the intoxicating fragrance and mellow-flavored tea made from the foliage and flowers. Mature height is 18-24 inches high and 12-18 inches wide. Super drought tolerant and tolerant of a range of soils.

Apache Sunset Agastache flowers in a tiny frosted glass bottle on a light blue background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Apricot Sprite:

Description: Set off a blazing display of tangerine-colored fireworks in your garden with this phenomenal, fragrant agastache. This native wildflower’s blooms appear in mid to late summer. Plants reach 15 to 18 inches tall and about 24 inches wide. The foliage and flowers are delightfully fragrant, and the orange, trumpet-shaped blooms are highly attractive to hummingbirds and other pollinators.

Apricot Sprite Agastache arranged in a glass on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Arcado Pink:

Description: Think Anise hyssop with a twist. This variety blooms in clear pink rather than the more usual lavender-purple. Incredibly free-flowering on compact plants, early summer right through to hard frost, and the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds love it!

A floral arrangement of Arcado Pink Agastache on a copper background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Golden Jubilee Korean Hyssop:

Description: Also known as purple giant hyssop, this highly ornamental medicinal herb is native to East Asia. The chartreuse, golden foliage and heavy scent makes this an award-winning perennial. This easy, adaptable perennial is attractive to pollinators and makes a lovely anise-flavored tea. Hardy from zones 5-10. A key herb in Traditional Chinese Medicine, the plant is used to soothe digestion and many other ailments. The purple blooms add brush strokes of color to the perennial border all summer long. Plants average 2 feet tall and will be covered in oodles of butterflies and bees; goldfinches also love the seeds. One of the most beautiful and fragrant plants in our garden.

An arrangement of Golden Jubilee Korean Hyssop bloom with foliage on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Lavender Martini:

Description: This tidy and compact agastache produces soft lavender-colored flower spikes irresistible to pollinators and a range of beneficial insects. Plants are perfectly suited for pots as well as beds and borders, as they reach just 10 inches tall. The foliage and blooms are delightfully fragrant and make a flavorful tea that we love to sip. A fabulous choice for the tea garden or your pollinator patch.

 Lavender Martini Agastache in a glass vase with abowl full of blooms on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Liquorice White:

Description: (A. rugosa) An herbaceous perennial, hardy in zones 4-8, that blooms in the first year. Plants reach 3 feet tall and overflow with fragrant white flowers. Nectar-rich flower spikes bloom from summer well into autumn, making this an ideal choice for pollinator gardens, mixed beds, and borders. Flowers and leaves emanate a sweet minty aroma and make a delightful cup of herbal tea. Perfect for bee lovers and tea lovers!

A close-up look at Liquorice White Agastache blooms and leaves.

 

Agastache Seeds, Navajo Sunset:

Description: Delicious minty-citrus tea plant; a must in the herb garden and kitchen! Southwest native perennial that is irresistible to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and other beneficials. Agastache Navajo Sunset wafts an incredible citrus scent; the open airy plants produce beautiful orange blooms. Ideal for xeriscape gardens, this variety is water thrifty and thrives in poor soil. Plants reach 28 inches tall and 30 inches wide, great for the perennial border or for the tea garden!

Navajo Sunset Agastache flowers in a tarnished silver vase on a teal background. Image courtesy of Lucy Hutchins.

 

Agastache Seeds, Raspberry Daiquiri:

Description: The heavenly fragrance and stunning raspberry-colored flowers make this agastache irresistible to pollinators, and a favorite in our trial gardens! Plants average 15 inches tall and 12 inches wide. Attractive to a wide range of pollinators and also resistant to deer and rabbits. Blooms from early summer to mid fall.

 Raspberry Daiquiri Agastache arranged in glass container on a white background.

 

Agastache Seeds, Rose Mint:

Description: This aromatic perennial has a phenomenal minty, rose fragrance. Prepare for a super long season of heavenly scented blooms; this agastache will set flowers in June that last until September! Its cheerful pink flower spikes attract pollinators and beneficials from across the animal kingdom! The irresistible blooms are colored a lavender-rose, and add drifts of soft color and heady scent to landscapes. The care-free plants thrive even in poor soil. This plant is highly revered by the Ramah Navajo, who use the plant parts in ceremonies as well as for their medicinal properties. A native of New Mexico and Texas.

Rose Mint Agastache in vase with agastache growing in the background in greenhouse at Baker Creek.

 

Agastache Seeds, Texas Hummingbird Mint 'Heather Queen':

Description: Tidy half-hardy perennial that is aromatic and attractive to pollinators. Plants fill the air with minty fragrance; the pretty spiked flowers are popular for arranging. This dynamic landscape plant is easy to grow, adds long-season color, and grows in neat clumps that do not spread or take over. Hardy, overwinters from zones 6a-9b, but can be easily grown farther north as an annual. Pollinators are drawn to its fragrance, and hummingbirds cannot resist the flowers! This plant can be dried for making tea and is also used to make a mosquito-repelling oil.

Texas Hummingbird Mint 'Heather Queen' Agastache in a glass basket on a light blue background.

 

Blue Boa Agastache Plants:

Description: Torrents of rich, purple-blue blooms on sturdy spikes, and stunning dark-purple 5 inch flower clusters.  ‘Blue Boa’ blows us away with super-showy, extra-large flowers, massive, larger than life 4-5’ plants, and four months of glorious color. Heat- and humidity-tolerant, high-performance plants unleash torrents of rich, purple-blue blooms on sturdy spikes, dark-purple buds 1 inch in diameter, producing stunning 5 inch flower clusters. Fragrant, vase-perfect flowers tower over the ultragreen clumping foliage. Easy to grow and easy to love. An alluring destination for insects, bees, and hummingbirds. Provides a colorful spectacle massed in a meadow, or sun-bathing in a perennial border

Blue Boa Agastache Plants

 

Rosie Posie Agastache Plant:

Description: Nectarous refreshments to loyal crowds of grateful birds and butterflies.  ‘Rosie Posie’ yields magnanimous bicolor masses of hot-pink flowers complemented by magenta-purple calyxes at foliage’s apex. With their colorful calyxes, plants seem to be in bloom long after flowers have faded and called it a day. Hardy 22" plants in bloom from early summer to early fall, are loaded with foliage power in addition to flower power. Blooms are nicely complemented by bright-green minty aromatic foliage that forms tidy, densely-packed, ball-shaped clumps—vastly more attractive than earlier cultivars. A welcome addition to your border, flowerbed, or vegetable garden. Plants offer nectarous refreshments to loyal crowds of grateful birds and butterflies. Growing ‘Rosie Posie’ is easy-peasy: plants thrive in full sun and in well-drained soil. Robust perennial is drought-tolerant and deer-resistant. US Plant Patent # 25,857.

Rosie Posie Agastache Plant

 

Peachie Keen Agastache Plant:

Description: Outstanding mound of colors and aroma.  Aromatic, bright-green foliage is covered with terminal spikes of small, apricot- peach colored, tubular flowers, each emerging from a contrasting darker purple-pink calyx. Blooming nonstop from mid-summer until first frost. Agastache, commonly known as giant hyssop, is a genus native to North America. It is easily grown in average, well-drained soils, and good soil drainage is essential. Established plants will tolerate heat and dry soil. Agastache hybrids often have showier flowers and better winter hardiness than species plants. Hybrids typically bloom from mid-summer to fall. Flowers are attractive to bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. We recommend giant hyssop for planting in sunny borders, cottage gardens and butterfly gardens. U.S. Plant Patent # 25,886

Peachie Keen Agastache Plant

 

Agastache, Meant to Bee Royal Raspberry:

Description: Flowers cover the top two-thirds of the plant from mid- to late-summer.  Even in a busy border, the fragrant rosy-purple spikes can’t help but catch the eye—and pollinators’ attention. Hummingbirds in particular flock to the tubular flowers for a drink. Burgundy calyxes hold their color well after the blooming is done, providing a carefree, colorful splash right through fall. At its luminous best planted in full sun. Drought-tolerant, deer-resistant.

Agastache, Meant to Bee Royal Raspberry

 

Blue Fortune Agastache Plant:

Description: What pollinator dreams are made of!  What pollinator dreams are made of, Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’, is the king of pollinator attraction. This plant is a must have for the garden. Scintillating blue flower spikes sit atop fragrant foliage for weeks in the garden. Butterflies will gather and deer will stay away making ‘Blue Fortune’ a show stopper in any landscape. Plant this blue beauty in full sun and watch it thrive. Have a dry spot in the garden? Even better. This plant is drought tolerant and extremely low maintenance. Your garden will be the life of the pollinator party after this dazzling specimen addition.

Blue Fortune Agastache Plant