If you were to imagine an ideal perennial, would it have dense spikes of tubular flowers that bloom from June to frost and don't require deadheading? Would it perform in the heat of summer and ...

Above: Agastache rupestris. sports soft orange flowers on licorice-scented leaves and is one of the species native to Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico, meaning it is drought-tolerant and durable.

Agastache are sun-loving plants which love the heat and need to have sharp drainage. ... Red/orange. 12-18' tall. Agastache aurantiaca 'Raspberry Daiquiri': Raspberry red/raspberry. 15' tall.

Plant Select, a joint CSU Extension-Denver Botanic Gardens program, chooses only five or six plants a year. It picked “Sunset” Agastache rupestris in 1997 — the program’s first year.

Perennials are plants and flowers that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die every autumn and winter and then grow ...

The OregonianAgastache 'Blue Fortune' For years agastache was lost to me in the clutter of trendier plants. It isn't variegated and doesn't have 8-inch flowers or bronze foliage. But what anise ...

Learn about plants that pair perfectly from expert gardeners. Use this list of plants that pair perfectly to establish your own garden combinations. 14 Plant Pairs You Should Grow Side-by-Side for ...

With cold weather arriving and the holiday season nearly upon us, I could write about fall leaf color or cool season flowers, but I cannot pass up the opportunity to tell you about Blue Fortune aga… ...

Autumn plants: crocosmia, agastache and euphorbia The partnership of crocosmia, agastache and euphorbia is a smouldering late-season show-stopper, says Val Bourne. By Val Bourne 18 September 2012 ...

It's the time of year to get planting, but before you put that flower in the ground, it will help to know a little more about it. Plants and flowers can be annuals or perennials. Annuals are ...