These are shorter, more mounded plants that want a sunny location and are drought tolerant once established. Plant them with late season asters, perennial sunflowers and rudbeckia.” -Chris Wiley, ownerĪgastache ‘Rosie Posey’ & ‘Peachie Keen’ : Walters Gardens introductions that we still have in stock. “Combine them with other season extenders like salvias and chrysanthemums. A bonus, their minty foliage is not eaten by deer. Plant these in the summer for a long fall season of color. It comes in many colors: Mandarin, Ambrosia, Coral, Gold and Slivery Blue and Blue Boa. It is the perfect orange color for fall.Īgastache Kudos series : A hybrid Agastache developed at the famous Terra Nova nurseries and is more compact than the species. These Agastache start blooming in early summer and continue to bloom until a killing frost, which is often not until Thanksgiving or later.Īgastache auriantica ‘Apricot Sprite’ : We grow these from seed and they are a great season extender. If our winters were a typical zone 5 winter, where the ground freezes and stays frozen all winter they would survive but with our freeze thaw cycles all winter long they do not usually survive. Even though the literature and the catalogs tout them as zone 5 plants we have not had good luck with them perennializing. There are many other Agastache species and hybrids we carry.
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