A particularly good variety to consider is agastache rose mint (Agastache pallidiflora) -- the pink and purple flowers on ...

Being in the mint family, the highly aromatic foliage of Agastache adds a sweet fragrance to the garden. The scented leaves, fresh or dried, are great for flavoring drinks and made into teas.

For years agastache was lost to me in the clutter ... rupestris (licorice mint). Small, rose-violet flowers on 1- to 3-foot-tall stems. USDA Zone 8. If you want to automatically receive a daily ...

Let me introduce a star of the summer perennial border — Agastache — a group of plants in the mint family ... 18-inch wands teeming with bright rose-purple flowers over leaves brushed with ...

This year, I'm loving Agastache 'Blue Blazes ... A bonus: The foliage smells like mint. Plant in full sun with well-drained soil, and it'll get to be a manageable 31/2- to 41/2 feet tall and ...

Agastache's winning ways. Like many tales of the West, how the agastache, or hummingbird mint, grew from a niche plant of the Arizona and New Mexico hills to one of the best- loved and most ...

Commonly known as giant hyssop or hummingbird mint, there are 22 species ... Pink Pearl, Sunrise Rose, Sunrise Violet and Blue Bayou. One of agastache’s most enticing features is its ability ...

Also: Agastache rugosum, “Korean” hyssop, with its intense mint scent; Agastache “Black Adder” (violet-blue and grape bi-color flowers). Blue agastaches are a good choice for wetter gardens.

Mint family members are often thirsty plants, but one wonderful exception is Agastache foeniculum. You may recognize it more easily by its common name, anise hyssop.