The Agastache plants have been laughing in the face of weather that most have called miserable since the beginning of May. The heat combined with no rain was fierce. Then June shows up where we have ...

A feeling of euphoria came over The Garden Guy and I muttered to myself that my work on earth was done. OK, I am kidding to a point. I am trialing two new agastaches, which I admit I am falling in ...

* What it is: ‘Black Adder’ is a hybrid variety of the U.S. native perennial Agastache foeniculum and Korean mint (Agastache rugosa). It’s distinctive for its nearly black buds that open into ...

The agastache comes with a lot of common names like anise hyssop, giant hyssop and hummingbird mint, but I assure you, outstanding will be one of your adjectives if you grow it. About a year and a ...

Blue Fortune Agastache, or anise hyssop, is causing quite a stir in our garden. We have dozens — some partnered with Tiger Eye Gold rudbeckia, others with the scarlet milkweed — but the 3- to ...

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 hyssop, licorice mint and the other ...

Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

A feeling of euphoria came over The Garden Guy and I muttered to myself that my work on Earth was done. OK, I am kidding to a point. Blue Fortune agastache shows out in a garden with lantanas, ...