Agastache Fragrant Carpet

A rarely available mixture of orange, yellow, red and pink Hyssop with aromatic foliage. A first year flowering perennial, tolerant of dry conditions. 18”. HP.

How to Grow Agastache from Seed

Agastaches are loved by bees and butterflies, their versatile blooms last well as cut flowers too. A relative of the mint family Agastache flowers are high in oils and their foliage is both attractive and aromatic. Agastache is well suited to a cottage garden setting, but it can fit in nicely in any border.

Agastache is an undemanding perennial, preferring sun but tolerating light shade.

Agastache seeds can be sown indoors in late winter or early spring for a transplanting outdoors in May once the danger of frost has passed. Sow in trays using a free-draining compost, gently press the flower seeds into the surface of the soil but do not cover.

Keep moist without over-wetting and transplant into 3 inch pots to grow on until established and ready for planting out.

Agastache plants grown from seed will take two years to bloom.