Agastache Species, Hummingbird Mint, Mosquito Plant, Wild Anise Hyssop

I got the Agasthache in a combination planting from a local nursery. It is still in the combo pot. I have grown to love this plant. It bl...Read Moreoomed well into late Fall outside, then I brought it inside and it kept blooming lightly. The fragrance is outstanding, and it has scented my huge living room wonderfully. Bees and butterflies just swarmed this plant from late summer (when I brought the plant home), always bringing life to the combo planting. I have collected seeds that I will plant in Spring. I grew this plant in Fort Gaines, GA, zone 8a, in a hot, full sun location, and nothing slowed it down. It is a keeper!!!

I've had Agastache cana in my garden for years and, for whatever reason, it grows much larger than advertised. It actually grows about se...Read Moreven foot tall by six feet wide and the flower spikes exceed 20 inches. It's amazing and the hummers and monarch butterflies go wild for this plant. I can have 50 monarchs on a plant at any given time. I'll try to include photos, hope it works as I'm new to this site. By the way, my garden is zone#5, in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, very near to Lake Ontario.

My favorite plant in my garden. The foliage has a wonderful, attractive smell. The long pink flower spikes appear in late spring and ke...Read Moreep blooming until the first frost. Hummingbirds appear to prefer agastaches to all other plants, including penstemons! I prefer A. cana's bushiness to the thinner folliage of A. rupestris.

It's very drought tolerant and does well in my clay soil, but needs a lot of sunlight.

Tall 3' - Plant 20 " apart. zone 5-10. Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies, with minty aromatic foliage. Upright clump sports rose...Read More pink blossoms up and down its stems.