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Agastache Purple Pygmy is a beautiful and fragrant plant. If touched it smells just like bubble gum!

I found this plant to be extremely tolerant of full, hot, all-day sun and drought. It needs good drainage. Mine grew taller than its supposed 16", but still shorter than some agastaches I've tried, and it held up better to wind too. Its stems were strong. Hummingbirds loved this plant and visited all day.

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In my opinion the best of the blue Hyssops. Blooms on mine were always covered in yellow swallowtail butterflies. Long spikes of masses of tiny blue flowers appear to be one giant fuzzy bloom. Starts blooming in July. Unfortunately the one large plant I had for many years died out over one winter and I have never gotten around to replacing it.

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One of the taller growing Agastaches I have in my garden. Another High Country Gardens introduction.

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One of the lovely Agastache introductions from High Country Gardens. All of them are very attractive to hummingbirds. I grow this one and it is a really pretty color.

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I tried Tutt-Frutti multiple times, but it would never overwinter in my garden. Lovely plant.

Located on the north shore of Nassau County Long Island, NY zone 6/7, where it is humid in the summer.

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looks nice!

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High Country Gardens introduced it Spring 2011.

‘Blue Blazes’ is an amazing hybrid between Agastache ‘Desert Sunrise’ (introduced in 2000) and the blue flowered eastern native Agastache foeniculatum.

Bred by Kelly Grummons, owner of Timberline Gardens in Arvada, CO.

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