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HC017232
Zones | 6 - 9 |
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Advantages | |
Light Requirements | |
Annual Rainfall |
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Bloom Time | Late spring through early fall |
Size | No |
SKU | HC017232 |
To determine if a plant is sufficiently cold hardy, the USDA created numbered zones indicating winter low temperatures; the lower the zone number the colder the winter.
SKU |
HC017232 |
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Common Name |
Hummingbird Attracting Collection for the West |
Zones |
6, 7, 8, 9 |
Light Requirements |
Full Sun |
Flower Color |
Pink |
Bloom Time |
Mid - Late Spring, Late Spring - Early Summer, Early - Mid Summer, Mid - Late Summer, Early - Mid Fall |
Bloom Time |
Late spring through early fall |
Ships As |
Potted Plant |
Soil Type |
Average Soil, Low Fertility Soil, Well-Drained Soil |
Soil Moisture |
Drought Resistant / Waterwise |
Amount Of Rain |
10 to 20", 20 to 30", 30 to 40" |
Advantages |
Deer Resistant, Attract Hummingbirds, Rabbit Resistant, Native |
Ideal Region |
West, Western Only, Southwest, Pacific Northwest |
Planting Time |
Spring / Summer, Fall |
Ships To Canada |
No |
Tips for growing Agastache
Agastache are sun loving plants with aromatic foliage and flowers. They bloom from mid-summer into early fall and are resistant to rabbits and deer.
Agastache need lean, well-drained soils, prefer gravel mulches, and appreciate deep but infrequent watering after their second growing season
To improve winter-hardiness, and encourage re-seeding, leave the stems intact over the winter. In mid-spring, remove old stems just above the new foliage, about 4 or 5 inches above ground level.
If your conditions don't lend themselves to growing Agastache in your garden, they do well planted in containers.
More in-depth guidance for growing Agastache: Agastache Growing Tips, Agastache: Super-Stars of the Perennial World Part 1, and Agastache: Super-Stars of the Perennial World Part II.
Tips for growing Penstemon (Beardtongue)
Penstemon are generally evergreen and have beautiful flowers that are very attractive to hummingbirds. Most varieties are rabbit resistant.
*To keep penstemon that have finely textured or matted evergreen foliage looking their best, you'll want to 'deadhead" them. Shear off the fading flowering spikes just as the plant is going out of flower. Gently bunch the flower spikes together with one hand and cut them off at the point where they go down into the mat of foliage with your clipper in your other hand. Recommended for the following varieties: P. pinifolius types (‘Compactum', ‘Mersea Yellow', ‘Nearly Red', ‘Magdalena Sunshine' and ‘Tall Orange Mix'), as well as Penstemon linarioides v. coloradensis and Penstemon virens ('Blue Lips').
More in-depth guidance for growing Penstemon: Watch our video: How To Plant Penstemon or read articles: Growing Penstemon, Penstemon for the Waterwise Garden, David’s Favorite Plants: Pineleaf Beardtongue, The Beardtongue Family: Penstemania for Penstemon and The Genus Penstemon: The Royalty of American Wildflowers The Genus Penstemon: The Royalty of American Wildflowers (Part 2).
Zone | Shipping Status |
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Zone 2 | Shipping begins the week of May 20th, 2019 |
Zone 3 | Shipping begins the week of May 20th, 2019 |
Zone 4 | Shipping begins the week of May 20th, 2019 |
Zone 5 | Shipping begins the week of April 29th, 2019 |
Zone 6 | Shipping begins the week of April 15th, 2019 |
Zone 7 | Shipping begins the week of March 25th, 2019 |
Zone 8 | Shipping begins the week of March 4th, 2019 |
Zone 9 | Shipping begins the week of February 25th, 2019 |
Zone 10 | Shipping begins the week of February 25th, 2019 |