Good plant, proper site placement seems key to establishment
"Site placement of plants are important. 2 out of 4 planted thrived. Thrivers were grown in a sandy loam soil with rock mulch. The two that did not make it through the first winter were planted in a clay loam with no rock mulch. I usually buy enough plants to test around are the place as we have 3 soil types in the garden areas. We'll plant a few more in the sandy loam areas this next year. We had a grasshopper infestation in 2024 and the flower and vegetable gardens really took a beating in May-July. Hoppers ate plants they normally have not targeted. On the Poquito mint they went for the flowers not so much the foliage. Plants survived and once hopper population faded away the recovered and flowered well from August to the firt frost in October."