Agastache kudos red
Flowers: Flower Color: Blue Pink Purple/Lavender Red/Burgundy White Flower Inflorescence: Spike Flower Value To Gardener: Fragrant Showy Flower Bloom Time: Summer Flower Shape: Tubular Flower Petals: 2-3 rays/petals Flower Size: Fruit: Display/Harvest Time: Fall Fruit Type: Capsule.
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Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Soil Texture: Loam (Silt) Sand Shallow Rocky Soil pH: Acid (Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial Perennial Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Habit/Form: Clumping Erect Growth Rate: Medium Maintenance: Low Texture: Medium.Attributes: Genus: Agastache Family: Lamiaceae Life Cycle: Perennial Recommended Propagation Strategy: Division Seed Stem Cutting Country Or Region Of Origin: North America Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.Tags: #hummingbirds #showy flowers #full sun tolerant #drought tolerant #perennials #long-lasting flowers #summer flowers #pollinator plant #edible leaves #butterfly friendly #bee friendly 'Acapulco Orange', 'Astello Indigo', 'Black Adder', 'Blue Boa', 'Blue Fortune', 'Firebird', 'Kudos Ambrosia', 'Purple Haze', 'Red Happiness', 'TNAGAPO' Lovely licorice-scent to the flowers and leaves See this plant in the following landscape: Children's Secret Garden- Wilson Botanical Gardens Cultivars / Varieties:įragrant, deep indigo-blue flowers with a minty scentīlue flowers, shorter than 'Blue Fortune' Use in a pollinator garden, rock garden or naturalized areas. Well-drained soils are essential for this plant and wet winter feet in poorly drained soil will do them in. Plant in a raised bed or container if you have heavy soil. Giant Hyssops are essential for a pollinator-friendly garden and have excellent resistance to browsing deer and rabbits. Colors range from white to blue and shades of red and purple. They are showy, fragrant, long-blooming perennials with spikes of flowers that bloom most of the summer. Giant Hyssop is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family of which most are native to North America and many from the southwest. Plants will reach up to 1' tall with a 2' spread.Phonetic Spelling ah-GAH-sta-kee Description KUDOS RED is a compact, upright selection of dwarf hybrid hyssop that features vivid red blooms from mid-summer through to early fall. Genus name comes from the Greek words agan meaning "very much" and stachys meaning "ear of wheat" in reference to the appearance of the flower spikes. Flowers are attractive to bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. Hybrids typically feature dense terminal spikes of tiny 2-lipped tubular flowers which bloom mid-summer to fall in many-flowered verticillasters (false whorls) atop 2-4’ tall stiff square stems clad with opposite pairs of serrate, fragrant (anise/licorice scented) gray-green to medium green leaves.
Hybrid flowers come in a variety of different flower colors including shades of red, orange, pink, yellow and white. Agastache, commonly called giant hyssop, is a genus containing about 30 species of upright herbaceous perennials, most of which are native to North America.Īgastache hybrids often have showier flowers and better winter hardiness than species plants.