

If your conditions don't lend themselves to growing Agastache in your garden, they do well planted in containers. In mid-spring, remove old stems just above the new foliage, about 4 or 5 inches above ground level. To improve winter-hardiness, and encourage re-seeding, leave the stems intact over the winter. Watering can be reduced greatly during the second growing season when the plants have matured. New transplants need regular irrigation their first growing season to establish themselves.Fertilize the Agastache just once in fall with Yum Yum Mix and Planters II.Don't plant into a rich, highly amended soil. Just a few handfuls of compost in the planting hole is enough.Provide a fast draining soil that's naturally low in fertility, Don't plant into clay soils.They bloom from mid-summer into early fall and are resistant to rabbits and deer.Īgastache need lean, well-drained soils, prefer gravel mulches, and appreciate deep but infrequent watering after their second growing season Agastache are sun loving plants with aromatic foliage and flowers.
