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Black Adder Agastache

Agastache x 'Black Adder'

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ZONES  6-9 | Good to grow! Zone
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• Agastache x 'Black Adder' (Giant Hyssop) is a long-blooming cultivar that boasts plentiful periwinkle flower spikes all summer long
• Plant en masse to create large swaths of color and texture - the fragrant blooms are a pollinator magnet, attracting hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and beneficial insects
• Like most Agastaches, 'Black Adder' is drought-tolerant and low-maintenance, requiring minimal care once established

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Description

Like most Agastaches, ‘Black Adder’ is a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant pollinator magnet. What sets it apart are the large bottlebrush terminal spikes packed with fragrant flowers. Long blooming, its spikey flowers add color, fragrance, and spunky texture to a garden setting. Blue-green foliage adds a lovely anise scent as well. A cross between A. rugosa and A. foeniculum, 'Black Adder' attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. Drought and heat-tolerant once established, plant en masse or mix into a perennial bed or rock garden, where it will flower from summer to fall, an excellent choice for late-season color. They make nice cut and dried flowers as well.

Planting & Care

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

  1. Provide a fast draining soil that's naturally low in fertility, Don't plant into clay soils.
  2. Plant in full hot sun.
  3. Just a few handfuls of compost in the planting hole is enough. Don't plant into a rich, highly amended soil..
  4. Fertilize the Agastache just once in fall with Yum Yum Mix.
  5. New transplants need regular irrigation their first growing season to establish themselves. Watering can be reduced greatly during the second growing season when the plants have matured.

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, and All About Planting Agastache.

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Advantages
  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Attracts Beneficial Insects
  • Mass Plantings
  • Long Bloom Time
  • Autumn Interest
  • Easy To Grow
  • Dried Flowers
  • Fragrant
  • Rock Gardens
  • Deer Resistant
Tolerates
  • Occasional Drought
Light Requirements
  • Full Sun
Bloom Time
Summer to fall

Additional information

Planting Time
  • Spring / Summer
Soil Moisture
  • Average
  • Waterwise
Soil Type
  • Sandy Soil
  • Compost Enriched Garden Loam Soil
Mature Height
24-36" tall
Mature Spread
18-24" wide
Growing Zones
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9
Ideal Region
  • Hot Desert
  • Midwest
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Southwest
  • West
Native To
North America
Neonicotinoid Free
Yes
Non-GMO
No
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