PETITTI Agastache Spotlight | Grow Hummingbird Mint for Pollinators, Deer Resistance & Cut Flowers

If you're looking for an aromatic, deer-resistant, floriferous perennial to add to the landscape, look no further than Agastache! Also known as Hummingbird Mint, or Anise Hyssop, this member of the mint family is a perennial powerhouse that supports all types of pollinators. Watch this video with Noelle, Horticulturist, and Education Manager, with Petitti Garden Centers, to learn how to grow Agastache along with the benefits of growing this pollinator magnet. She covers winter hardiness, tips for planting success, and pruning maintenance. Plus, she shares some new varieties from Proven Winners in the 'Meant to Bee' series.

[joshuam]

Agastache is definitely one of my favorites in the garden. I have a variety from Lowe’s (3 years ago, never seen it again at any store or nursery since 🙁)that is currently 6+ feet tall.
Plus the 🦋 and 🐝 go crazy for them

[sandrawilliams]

Blue Fortune is everything you mentioned and then some. Long blooming, fragrant, most popular with pollinators and I even spotted a hummingbird on mine yesterday. A definite must for a sun garden. As for kudos, I have a red variety and it’s not liking the very wet weather we’ve been having in Toronto thus far. Much more high maintenance than blue fortune.

[maggiew]

Appreciate how you share all of the critical aspects of growing and keeping plants. Wish we had a nursery like yours in my area.😊

[koicaine]

Great video! I love Agastache and have been growing some to plant in the Spring! It's just such a beautiful plant, I want to have it in every color ❤

[MD]

Love all of your information, Noelle. I just purchased Agastache today- i knew you'd have all the helpful information I would need. Thank you!

[marizen]

Love them. I'll be searching for these in my garden centers. Thank you!

[judyingram-khvm]

I'd love to have the blue fortune, I'm in zone 6 also. Thank for sharing this with us and all the information you give for each plant. They are all so beautiful. And I also have a deer and rabbit problems. 😮😮😮

[ettietti]

For sure I am going to add some of those flowers to my Coneflowers in my garden thank you 😊

[vbrown]

I love agastache so much! In the PNW, though, it appears to not like our wet winters and struggles to come back.. will have to try the more dependable varieties you mentioned..thank you!

[rtrxpqf]

I wasn't sure if perennials that need 6 or more hours of sunlight according to tag in pot would thrive in 4-6 hours so thanks so much for clarifying, Noelle. I will keep in mind though that they may not have as many flowers. Agastache or hummingbird mint was unknown to me but is beautiful & thanks to you and Angelo Petitti I am also clear on how to fertilize perennials. Have a great day!

[lilyw.]

Queen bee nectarine is beautiful and it came back this year for me in zone 5b. I did lose the raspberry PW but the pollinators love it so much that I am willing to spend it for annual. Will have to try blue fortune !

[WalkingbytheSpiritAlways]

My favorite is Pink Pearl, and I am in Atlanta Zone 8, but it's in a container and came back very well after several 15 degree days last winter. It started blooming May 1st, and it has much larger flowers. It does get reflected heat and light from the driveway and mid-day to late afternoon sun. It was highly rated by the UGA trials. My other very successful agastache is Poquito Yellow agastache which is also in containers and blooming heavily already, so I got some Poquito Blue to add this year. The Poquito is in the back yard so it only gets direct sun from 1-4, but it's in a container on concrete and handles the heat very well. My hummingbirds really love the salvias though, and don’t look much at the agastaches and totally ignored the Honeybells cuphea last year, so I am not planting it this year. But the bees do like the agastaches.
I am trying two Sunrise colors this year- violet and blue.

[bohemiangardensandgourdfar]

Love agastache but your right you MUST mulch for winter if you even hope for it to come back.

[jessicakurth]

Agastache blue fortune is one of my all time favorite perennials, up there with Monarda and Coreopsis!

[MountainsnVallies]

Ty for this video! I just purchased a couple of these and would like to plant in a pot I’m in zone 4 how do you over winter potted plants? Can I leave it in the very large pot out doors covered for the winter or do I pull it out and plant it in the ground for winter? Ty

[mapndo]

All the names are A-okay ...one of my fave drought tolerant Southwest perennials...having said that I have a request if one can be made...can we see a Spotlight video on Penstemon? Very similar to Agastache the way Veronicas are to Salvias.

[MickF]

How well does Little Adder handle a windy site? I found some at a local nursery in one-gallon containers, and they seem rather loose growing, although the stems near the base of the plant are a bit woodier. It's possible these are fairly recent in propagation, although they are at least 15" tall already. I picked up a couple with the idea of planting them next each other. One of the plants had a black-spotted white butterfly latching onto one of the flower clusters, and it refused to leave even after I was moving the container. LOL.

[BKsWildlifeWorld]

Great video! If I wanted to grow as a container plant only would these work for that? Or would these rather be in the ground?

[valdiego-san]

Thank you for the EXCELLENT presentatio, very helpful & inspiring 💐

[MadCityBells]

Lovely plant.
Your watering advice is highly suspect because it’s exactly the same for every single plant you review.