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Sun, Mar 11, 12 at 17:05
| Ok...I have decided to replace all my Salvias with various Agastache. I'm bored with Salvias that bloom and then go so long without blooming again. I think the Agastache look great longer, smell good and attract hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies more. What are your favorite Agastache plants? These have proven to be so reliable here. Every single one returned! |
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RE: Favorite Agastache Plants?
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OMG...I LOVE Agastache! My faves over the past few years are:
Desert Sunrise 
Blue Blazes
Purple Haze
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| Agastache rupestris/sunset hyssop (grown from seed via winter sowing) growing next to Caryopteris/blue mist shrub on one side and winter sown butterfly bush on the other. This will be its third year in this spot. 
Golden jubilee was gorgeous too but it grew 4 ft. tall and as wide, much too large for the amount of space I gave it. |
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| Wow. Those look great. I saw a yellowish one called 'Summer Glow' that looks good too. |
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| I love the pink of 'Firebird'. 
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| I'm so glad I stopped by, love all these pics!. I love my Blue Fortune agastache, sorry I don't have a photo. |
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| I rooted cuttings of all my Acapulco Trio. All 3 colors rooted in 3 days. I had no idea these rooted so easily. I will be rooting more! They bloomed till frost. |
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| I love Black Adder, Blue Fortune and Serpentine. They have already new shoots coming. They are much more hardy here than books claim. |
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| 'Black Adder' and 'Blue Fortune' are among my all time favorites too... but my absolute favorite last year was 'Ava'. |
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| Cotton candy blooms all season for me. Heatwave planted last fall and is already taking off. These are vigorous plants. |
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The only one I have grown is Apache Sunset. Beautiful and you just can't beat a plant with leaves that smell like root beer!
That was a few years ago and at my previous home so this year I am growing it again. |
Agastache Plants
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| Feel the stems on agastache--they're square, putting them in the mint family which explains (at least to some extent) their robust growth habit and long bloom period. I've got seeds ordered for some new ones to grow this year: Astello Indigo, Apache Sunset, Bolero & Raspberry Daiquiri. Pretty certain they'll brighten up the flowerbeds + the bees will thank me... |
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| Favorite orange agastache? And if you bought your plants by mail order, were you satisfied w/ the company you bought them from? I would like to plant some orange agastache- love the scent and flowers. So far the agastache have not been hardy for me, but I want to try again. Thanks, Brandy |
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| Brandyray, I just ordered my favorite, Cotton Candy, because I cannot find it locally. My first time ordering from this company. I will let you know how it turns out. |
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| I have taken a pole(unscientific) among my resident Goldfinches and find they prefer the "blue" ones. We love to watch them cling to the swaying stem as they work their way around the flower pulling out the seeds. Al |
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| Thank you, mollydog. I will look up "Cotton Candy". |
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| I'm so excited to see other people love Agastache as much as I do! I discovered this plant last year and I can't get enough of it. Hopefully the ones I planted last summer will survive the exceptionally cold winter we had this year. Right now I am sowing Sunset Hyssop and Mexican Hyssop in doors. My hope is they will survive through next winter and grow large to cover an ugly field across from my house which was left behind by some builders a few years ago. The soil is very sandy so I have been trying to work in fertilizer and compost but cost prevents me from really being able to do what I want to do there. Any suggestions as to how I can get my new agastache seedlings to thrive on the hill are welcomed! I'm new to gardening so tips are appreciated:) |
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| The only Agastache I have had luck with is 'Golden Jubilee'. Love the gold foliage (except when it gets tired looking in summer), but not so keen on the wishy washy colored flowers. I tend to think that the foeniculum species are better able to handle our soggy winters/springs than the "western" sorts. In the past I tried A. canna, aurantiaca 'Coronado' & 'Apricot Sprite', and possibly ruprestis (can't remember though! Might not have...). They would do fine first year and second, but after that they would dwindle away or not make it thru a winter. I did not find leaving the stems up during winter helped any. I am sooo jealous of those that can get them to grow for you. I'm in love with 'Cotton Candy' and that new 'Grapefruit Nectar'. :'-( Ps. curious, do all of you find your individual agastache plants long lived, or not so much? On average, how long?
CMK |
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| I have several that are on their fourth year here. They are already sprouting. Golden Jubilee is very hardy here. |
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| I love Agastache! Not surprising as I love meadows and they certainly are that style to me. I have not had great luck with getting them to come back every year. I have loamy clay and in zone 6a, that makes agastaches difficult because they love great drainage over the winter. Honey Bee Blue always comes back and I've had it in the yard every year since I started it and I believe I still have original plants, but seedlings too. I've tried a few that didn't survive. 'Apricot Desert' I believe was one. A. rupestris didn't come back in it's 2nd year which surprised me. Last year, I tried Golden Jubilee and Black Adder for the first time so we shall see if they come back this year. My favorite is 'Ava' which I got from High Country Gardens. It came back last season, after it's first winter and I'm hoping for getting through a 2nd winter. Here is a photo of it in it's second season.... |
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| That's a nice photo. I am ordering Ava this year finally! |
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