This ‘Navajo Sunset’ Hummingbird-mint provides an incredible scent to your sunny landscape, and is a serious magnet for hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. If you can, plant it near a pathway or by an entrance to enjoy the rich minty-citrus fragrance as you walk by.
This variety features apricot-orange tubular flowers that cover the tops of the bushy grey-green lacy foliage, and bloom for many weeks from mid- to late-summer through early fall.
Plants reach 18-36 in. tall x 12-30 in. wide, making them flexible for many parts of a sunny perennial/low shrub border. Pair them with sun-loving perennials like Yarrow (Achillea), Coreopsis, native Columbine (Aquilegia), Showy fleabane (Erigeron), and modest-sized ornamental grasses (Pennisetum & Miscanthus).
Agastaches must have well-drained soils, and they do best in a lean soil (even OK in gravelly soils!); they do not like clay soils, nor highly amended soils. Do not cut these back before winter; leaving the stems intact provides more winter hardiness. Water deeply but infrequently for the first two growing seasons, cutting back as the plants mature; they should require no water once established (depending on the vagaries of our changing climate).
With the right soil conditions, this is a fuss-free plant that offers many rewards in a sunny spot!
This ‘Navajo Sunset’ Hummingbird-mint provides an incredible scent to your sunny landscape, and is a serious magnet for hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. If you can, plant it near a pathway or by an entrance to enjoy the rich minty-citrus fragrance as you walk by.
This variety features apricot-orange tubular flowers that cover the tops of the bushy grey-green lacy foliage, and bloom for many weeks from mid- to late-summer through early fall.
Plants reach 18-36 in. tall x 12-30 in. wide, making them flexible for many parts of a sunny perennial/low shrub border. Pair them with sun-loving perennials like Yarrow (Achillea), Coreopsis, native Columbine (Aquilegia), Showy fleabane (Erigeron), and modest-sized ornamental grasses (Pennisetum & Miscanthus).
Agastaches must have well-drained soils, and they do best in a lean soil (even OK in gravelly soils!); they do not like clay soils, nor highly amended soils. Do not cut these back before winter; leaving the stems intact provides more winter hardiness. Water deeply but infrequently for the first two growing seasons, cutting back as the plants mature; they should require no water once established (depending on the vagaries of our changing climate).
With the right soil conditions, this is a fuss-free plant that offers many rewards in a sunny spot!
