Placing a birdbath in your yard is charming. Building up bird-friendly flowering plants around it is brilliant. This tall, ...

Agastache, also known as anise hyssop and hummingbird mints need to be at the top of your list as we rocket toward planting season. Your trusty friend, ‘The Garden Guy’ is here to give you the long ...

When it comes to keeping your garden lively with hummingbirds, few plants work harder than agastache. These vibrant, fragrant perennials — sometimes called hummingbird mint or giant hyssop — thrive in ...

This year at the Southern Plant Trials, I fell in love with the herbaceous perennial agastache. This perennial stood out to me with its profuse blooms and delightful fragrance. At each location I ...

If you were to imagine an ideal perennial, would it have dense spikes of tubular flowers that bloom from June to frost and don't require deadheading? Would it perform in the heat of summer and even ...

For a long time now, one of my most favorite long-blooming perennials has been anise hyssop. It's a versatile perennial that, in my opinion, no garden should be without! Known botanically as Agastache ...

For years agastache was lost to me in the clutter of trendier plants. It isn't variegated and doesn't have 8-inch flowers or bronze foliage. But what anise hyssop, licorice mint and the other ...

Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

With cold weather arriving and the holiday season nearly upon us, I could write about fall leaf color or cool season flowers, but I cannot pass up the opportunity to tell you about Blue Fortune ...

The Agastache plants have been laughing in the face of weather that most have called miserable since the beginning of May. The heat was fierce combined with no rain. Then June shows up where we have ...