LAVENDER HYSSOP

LICORICE MINT

[ Agastache Foeniculum ]  

Season: Perennial
Height: 12-36 Inches
Bloom Season: Summer/Fall
Exposure: Full Sun/Partial Shade/Dry/Moist
Zones: 3 - 10

Lavender Hyssop [ Agastache Foeniculum ] is a perennial with dense, terminal spikes of small, tubular, bright bluish purple flowers. Leaves are opposite, oval, toothed and whitish beneath. The sturdy, erect blue giant-hyssop is of the most ornamental native mints and the entire plant very fragrant, a mixture of mint and licorice.

Lavender Hyssop [ Agastache Foeniculum ] adds interest to borders and containers, as well as attracts wildlife to a garden. The plant is fragrant and this beautiful all around perennial is great for both prairie meadows and flower beds. Its abundant nectar and seed attract bees, butterflies, and birds to enrich your garden with flight and song. Cut and dried flowers enhance our homes and the leaves make tasty herbal teas.

The plant attracts hummingbirds.

The flowering plants are very attractive to honeybees and butterflies.
 

PLANTING

Sow Inside: Winter/ Spring before last frost
Sow Outside: Spring
Seed Depth: 1/16 Inch
Days to Emerge: 7 - 14

LAVENDER HYSSOP LICORICE MINT Agastache Foeniculum Seeds