I first started growing Agastache 'Desert Sunrise' in 2005, when I placed my first order from High Country Gardens in Santa Fe, NM. David Salman of HCG introduced it in 2000 and I've been in love with it since.
With the gorgeous flower colors, the long blooming time, and the fact that it's a rich nectar source for hummingbirds, it should have a place in every garden trying to attract hummers, as well as for gardeners just enjoying the beauty and scent of it.
If you were to grow only one variety of Agastache, 'Coronado Red' would be the one to get!
When I first saw it blooming in my flowerbed in 2010, I was speechless! It's so beautiful, with the colors of the flowers against the color of the leaves, that all I could do was just stare at it constantly that season. I was entranced by its beauty!
I then knew that I had to have at least one 'Coronado Red,' if not more, blooming in my yard every year!
As you can see by all the pics I posted, I was dazzled by it and couldn't get enough of it.
Agastache 'Cotton Candy' is a beauty with its gorgeous pink blooms. I've been growing it for a few years now, since it was introduced. I thought it got better looking after the first year and it looked wonderful the first year.
I remembered when it first bloomed. I stared at the beautiful flower colors on each stem and thought: Wow, I'm glad I have it to enjoy! I still think that every time it blooms.
Agastache 'Blue Fortune' is an excellent one for attracting butterflies! The bees and hummingbirds love it also! They love it! Just make sure it's in full sun and has excellent drainage. It's a beautiful blue color in bloom and so easy to grow. Just make sure it has plenty (the required amount) of space and then get ready for all the butterflies, bees and hummers to show up and enjoy the plant.
I'll always have and make room for this beauty in my yard. It's a winner!
I love Agastache 'Black Adder'! I love to see the Butterflies, Bees and/or Hummingbirds on it, getting nectar from it. I have at least three plants in my front yard flowerbed and I am getting two more to plant there.
It is a beautiful and colorful Agastache! Easy to grow if you have excellent drainage and sun. Other than that, it is undemanding and happy.
It warms my heart to see them on it!
Another wonderful Agastache! Can't have too many of them in my yard!
This is a beautiful Agastache. It is a colorful and unforgettable one. When it's blooming, I always stand in front of it and just stare at its beauty. I love growing it in my garden.
Unfortunately, the ones I had all died and I haven't found it again. Maybe next year I can find it.
It was introduced by Bodger Botanicals a few years ago.
The series Bodger debuted was called the Acapulco
series, bred by Kieft. There were three in the series. 'Acapulco Rose', 'Acapulco Orange' and 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink'.
After this was originally introduced, Green Fuse Botanicals bought Bodger Botanicals.
Agastache 'Bolero' is a 2011 Jelitto Perennial Seeds introduction that is a hybrid of two southwestern American species, Agastache cana and Agastache barberi.
Agastache Color Spires Steel Blue has been growing in my garden, either in a container or in the ground since it was introduced in 2007 or 2008.
I love the color of the flowers! It grows shorter than Agastache Color Spires Pink, which I also grow, but it's still enjoyable and beautiful.
In 2008, I planted two plants of Color Spires Steel Blue in my flowerbed and they have survived the winters here. I also planted one plant of it, in 2008 or 2009, into a container that sits on my patio, which gets full sun, and it has survived the winters too.
Agastache aurantiaca 'Coronado' is a beautiful plant for your garden because of the colors of the flowers against the silvery leaves.
It is a 2001 Plant Select plant from the Denver Botanical Garden & University of Colorado.
'Coronado' is a cultivar of a southwestern perennial native.
I've known for many years that 'Coronado' was the longest blooming Agastache. With more and more Agastaches on the market every year, there might be some hybrids that match the performance of 'Coronado'.
This is also one of my favorites!
You can't go wrong growing Agastaches. They're beautiful, long-blooming, low-maintenance plants and they attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. Every year there are new Agastaches on the market, with dazzling flower colors to pick from, to grow in your garden or a container, as long as it has excellent drainage.
Agastache Color Spires® Pink is a beauty! I love it! I first started growing it in 2008 when it was first introduced and I found it at a local garden center. I bought several small pots of it and planted them in one of my flowerbeds that gets full sun, in lean sandy soil with small gravel on top, and planted next to a border of larger rocks. The next year, two plants survived the winter. Those two plants are still growing and blooming as of last year. I'm pretty sure they survived this past winter.
In 2010, I bought several more plants and planted two in another bed, which is mostly sunny and has a slight slope. That bed also has lean sandy soil with small gravel on top. The two in that bed did not survive.
I planted the third in a container on my patio, which gets full sun. I made sure it had (and has) excellent drainage. It has survived every winter since, and I just saw green leaves in the container the other day!
I don't think this gorgeous Agastache is available anywhere now, as I've not seen it for several years.
I don't collect seeds from my Agastaches, as I want them to constantly be in flower for the hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. Plus, I don't deadhead in the late summer because I want to ensure they survive over winter. I always wait until late spring, until I see new leaf growth, which also ensures hardiness.
If you do find it, get it and grow it. You'll be very happy you did!
Agastache 'Firebird' is a hybrid of two Agastaches, A. coccinea and A. rupestris, and was hybridized by Richard Dufresne of North Carolina.
It's a beautiful and stunning Agastache! One of my favorites! I can't find it locally, so I have to search for mail-order places that carry it. If you find it, get it and grow it!
I've seen different hardiness zones for Agastache aurantiaca 'Apricot Sprite' while searching for the correct details for this plant. I do believe it to be hardy to zone 7, but I've seen zones of 5 and 6 for the minimum hardiness and I'm not sure they're correct.
If you do plant it, just be aware that it might not survive the winter if your zone is colder than zone 7. That's what I keep in mind when I plant it, either in the ground or in containers. If it does, that's wonderful!
It's a beautiful colored Agastache and worth growing, even if it's just for the summer!
Agastache 'Apricot Sunrise' is one of my favorite Agastaches. I've have grown them in the ground and in containers. Lately, I haven't found it available to grow at a local garden center and/or through mail order, but if I did, I'd get it! When I did find them at a local garden center, I'd always pick the pots of flowers that had a deeper orange color overall, as I saw some variations of color in some of the pots. 'Apricot Sunrise' is a hybrid of Agastache coccinea and Agastache auriantica and it was hybridized by Richard Dufresne of North Carolina. As with most Agastaches, they're a long-blooming plant and I can't get too many of them!
Although the plant was stated to grow to 2 feet tall, mine grew over three feet tall and wide its first year... I guess things really do grow bigger in Tx.
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