Yeah, I think I have a crush on agastache. All the signs are there. :-) We spent some time in the garden together this morning. I wrote about it a while back and I just can't stop thinking about it. The more time I spend with this plant the more I like it. It's polite, well more or less. I haven't found any seedlings in the garden, and it stays in a nice clump. Let's see, it smells lovely wearing a lemon mint cologne. The pink and salmon flowers, which are MANY, have this way of cutting through the grey light we have had recently (or like the last 9 months). Oh and the hummingbirds like it, and I like hummers.
Sigh, what a plant. I had wondered if I were over doing it (seeing too much of each other, you know how it is, too much of a good thing) when I planted TEN more plants this spring in addition to the mature one I already had. But I think for now I'm just going to see how things go. For the moment it's bliss.
See, you do plant en masse! ;)
ReplyDeletesounds like the beginning of a beautiful courtship!
ReplyDeleteLaguna lady, yes one can hope. Time will tell of course.
ReplyDeleteDenise, there is en masse and then there is a garden enveloped in flowers. I may have a problem.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you, I am also having quite the affair with agastache. Mine are different but one is straight orange with grey foliage and the other is dark pink w/ orange, deeper color than your apaches. The hummies do love them and I'm happy to have put a slow down on the great hummingbird wars of 2011 in my backyard because these are in the front yard.
ReplyDeleteHummers are feisty!
ReplyDeleteI must be one of the rare folks that Agastache doesn't love back. I've failed at the relationship a couple times. Was it something I said? It probably was more like giving Aggie a spot with way less sun than the plant is used to. I'll try again once the hurt wears off...
ReplyDeleteHey James,
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could put one in a pot next to some of your Sarracenias. Just a thought.
Would like to visit your garden some time.
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