Want hummingbirds hovering outside your window all summer? Agastache flowers are built for them—tubular, nectar-rich, and blooming from early summer well into fall. Bees and butterflies work the spikes just as hard. Learn How to Grow Agastache for pollinators and give your garden a season long audience.
Run a leaf between your fingers and see what you get: anise, mint, citrus, root beer. It depends entirely on the variety, which is half the reason to grow more than one. Leaves and flowers both steep into a mellow, fragrant cup—Agastache is the perfect addition to your tea garden. Learn how to Plant Your Best Tea Garden.
Agastache is one of those plants that does better the less you do for it. Full sun, lean soil, sharp drainage, and it's perfectly content. The fastest way to lose one is rich, soggy ground that stays wet over winter. It holds a neat clump too—none of mint's bad habits.