Agastache? What do you think?

In spring I planted two packets of Agastache seed along with quite a few other types of seed but none germinated. Just before our vacation in August I cut back all the plants in the pot and by the time I had returned this little one appeared.

I suspect that it's an Agastache. I crushed a leaf and it had a somewhat licorice scent to it, although originally I thought it was a citrus smell. Does anyone agree?

It seems healthy and has survived the massive gusts of wind on my deck from our first storm.

hmm, I don't know, just let it keep growing is always my rule, if I'm not sure about what is in a pot. I love surprises! Hope your weather isn't too bad. Do you mean a winter snowstorm? Or just windy stormy weather like we are having?

A rain and wind storm. For the most part the rain and snow are the least of my worries, as these are on a covered deck, it's the very strong wind gusts I worry about..

good luck. Hope you don't get blown away!

Sure looks like an agastache to me. The perennial licorice agastache leaf looks a lot like some of the annuals.

Hi Mrs. Ed, So what did you Agastache plant turn out to be?? What kind of Agastache seed was it? Any tips on growing Agastache seed? I was wondering if it has to be chilled for so many weeks etc. or "stratified".

It wasn't me who had the mystery plant, it was tikipod.

I winter sowed the Perennial Honey Bee Blue agastache, but the annual Texas Sage and nymph coral agastache I plant in spring. Some plants are only sold from cutting propagation too. So, hard to tell which you are interested in.

For some other plants, suggest you visit this forum for the link to the "when to sow" spreadsheet. Tons of good info.


http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/943821/

birder17 and Mrs_Ed I don't know which it was. It was growing strong until about November and then died down or just died. There were two Agastache seeds planted. One was Apricot Sprite and the other was a pink one by Burpee.

I have Anise Hyssop, Golden Jubilee, Korean Mint and Blue Fortune winter sown. I hope to have others as well, even annuals.

I strongly doubt that Agastache seeds need stratification. That's most often needed for alpine plants like Penstemons.

Anyone interested in alpine plants should check out NARGS, the North American Rock Garden Society.

http://www.nargs.org/

They have a seed exchange for members, and have just opened a forum for the general public. There are a lot of pictures of alpine plants at AlpenPix Gallery

http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/index.php?gal=AlpenPix

Here is one alpine mail order catalog for seeds - Alplains

http://www.alplains.com/

Readers can glean a lot of information from these and similar sources. Their users, including rock gardeners and botanical gardens, are essentially trialling the plants that growers like High Country Gardens discover and sell

NARGS is an excellent seed exchange.
I was delighted with what they sent me last year.
Just about everything germinated for me.
I have just done a WS of some that I received this year.
This year it seemed that the seeds offered were less alpines and more general perennials.
That is okay too.

They get seeds from all over the world, so it is possible to luck out on new items.

tkpod: do you think your plants may have just gone dormant and will show up this Spring/Summer? If so, let us know.