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Sat, Aug 20, 11 at 10:58
| I have some Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee' and I am just stumped as to what to plant with it. It looks like it should be obvious: lime or chartreuse foliage with pink/pale magenta spiked blooms. Lime is so great in the garden! But, for some reason this lime is more of a yellow lime rather than a chartreuse green lime. The leaves really look more washed out than bold. But, I still like it. I just CANNOT figure out what to plant with it! What do you put with your 'Golden Jubillee'? |
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RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| I have mine planted with Echinacea purpurea, Agastache rupestris, Rudbeckia hirta 'Autumn Colors' & phlox p. 'Blue Paradise.' I like 'Golden Jubilee' early in the season but by now it does look overgrown and washed out. It's either getting shovel pruned or else next year I'll whack it down to see if that keeps it bushy. |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| Color tastes are pretty individual, but to my mind, white blossoms go with anything, and blue to blue-violet will go with both the chartreuse and the pink. Deep red, red-pink, and true red will also look good with those colors. Frosty, silvery, or blueish foliage will make the chartreuse light up as will a deep green. |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| I went with the purple/yellow-green scheme. A dwarf zebra grass is next to the agastache (it's the same yellow-green); and some lime nicotiana around the base. Nearby are geranium 'rozanne', daylily 'strutters ball'(dark purple) and columbine 'tower white'. Next year I think I'll add more white - it looks very fresh with the chartreuse. |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| I pruned my Golden Jubilee in July. It is beautiful now! What an awesome plant! It is blooming yet again. After it blooms, prune it back to half the height. If it crowds another plant, simply cut a few limbs off. It responds by blooming more and putting out fresh golden leaves! Plant Echinacea "Pow Wow Wild Berry" and Dwarf Fountain Grass "Little Bunny" in front of it. Echinacea "Pow Wow" blooms the first year from seeds. The colors look great together! Dark colored sedums like Postman's Pride and Matrona look great with it too. I put Baptisias and Russian Sage behind it. |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| I had it planted with Verbascum 'Violetta' at one time and the purple flowers of the verbascum looked great with the bright yellow leaves of the agastache in the spring. Just a few days ago I planted a couple of seedlings in a new raised bed (which is in the center of a larger bed) with other plants that take drier conditions: Echinacea tennessensis, Penstemon hirsutus, Agastache rupestris, Geum triflorum, Liatris punctata, Asclepias tuberosa, and Ratibida columnifera (yellow). I can't wait to see everything mature and flower. It'll look nice, I think. Karen |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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| Thanks for the suggestions. You know what's weird? I could have SWORN the blooms earlier this summer were more pinkish than purplish. In fact, I thought I actually checked the plant online to see if that was the normal color. I have blooms now on it that are purple, just like standard Anise Hyssop. I don't think plants change color like that, so I must be slightly crazy. I checked out the Pow Wow Wild Berry, and I think that would be a fantastic pairing, as well as a very welcome color to my overly yellow fall garden. Will be buying some seeds to WS this year, for sure! I also did put some purple in and around it, as well. Thanks for all the great suggestions! tepelus, I placed Asclepias tuberosa not in front of it, but very close. This garden area gives me more opportunity for large swaths of color, and I'm hoping those two areas will blend very well. nhbabs, I hadn't thought of red, but that would indeed be a fantastic color with those yellow-green leaves. That would really "pop" (I think "pop" has got to be one of the most over-used words today). Getting me to thinking...I have 5 GJ plants now. I can divide them next year and pair them with some red bloomers. Thanks for all the suggestions. It's so helpful to hear your thoughts, and your suggestions always help bump me out of my rut! |
RE: plant with Anise Hyssop 'Golden Jubilee'? I'm stumped
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I think you are definitely on the right tracks...grasses, Rudbeckia, Echinacea...I think it would be perfect with dark-leaved companions as well...Cimicifuga, Heuchera. Here's a pic from my garden a last wee, you can see it nestled between almost all of those ;-)
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