Agastache: Where have you been all my life?: High Country Gardens

Agastache: Where have you been all my life?

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Also known as hummingbird mints, Agastache are a showy, fragrant group of perennial herbs with trumpet shaped blossoms that are rich with nectar.

The orange and pink-flowered Agastache are highly attractive to hummingbirds, while the blue-flowered Agastache are a favorite of butterflies and bees.

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So delightfully perfect, Agastache are:

fragrant
sun lovers
attract hummingbirds
attract butterflies
bloom from mid-summer
to fall
great plants for containers
lavender companions

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How to plant Agastache

Agastache that are Xeric

Plant Agastache in your
Xeriscape Cottage Garden

Introduced by our Chief Horiculturist, David Salman, award winners Agastache 'Ava' and Agastache rupestris remain top sellers to date. Enjoy continuous blooms all summer with this exotic favorite, the orange and pink Agastache Acapulco. With tinted shades of orange, pink and lavender, ‘Desert Sunrise’® is a sturdy, vigorous grower that blooms non-stop from midsummer through fall.

Sun Lovers

Agastache plants are sun lovers, and need ‘lean,’ well-drained soils, prefer gravel mulches and appreciate deep but infrequent watering after their second growing season. Planted in containers, you can enjoy their showy fragrance and rich blossoms year-after-year in your outdoor spaces. Plant our Agastache Sampler in your garden or containers and your will have guests in your garden summer to fall!

Agastache in Non-western Regions

In areas with cold, wet winter, plant Agastache on sunny south or west-facing slopes or in raised beds. Sandy, infertile soils are a must! Plant the crown high and mulch with 2” of very coarse sand or small gravel. Agastache x ‘Blue Fortune’ and Agastache rugosum are the best varieties of Agastache for higher rainfall areas east of Mississippi.