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.

Best Companion Plants to Grow with the New Agastache Peach Pearl. ... Its pop of yellow pairs well with the vibrant peachy ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...