PlantFiles: Mexican Giant Hyssop
Agastache mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink'

This is the best agastache I have grown--the plant gets really large and full. Mine started blooming mid-July in Denver area and kept going until the snows in October. The stalks are strong and don't need staking. Hummers like it! Good color. I can't wait to see it next year. This was the second year. Didn't do too much the first year.

I have tried probably 10 different cultivars of Agastache and this has done the best for me. It is winter hardy, not brittle, and flowers very nicely all summer in NM. Hummingbirds love it.

Let me start by saying, I love this plant. The color.. the frangrance... everything about it! It is however, a tender perennial here in zone 6a. Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way. The beautiful 2nd year plant you see in the pictures to the right is no more.

I took some internet advice and transplanted my Agastache last fall to a new location on the side of my house. I had planted several others there this past summer with plans to move this one in the fall. It never came back.

When left alone it comes back beautifully with no additional protection at all. If fact, the three plants that I left undisturbed are all coming back this year. Lesson learned!

Very pretty pink and salmon color with a nice citrus scent.

Love this!!! Beautiful and colorful! Smell wonderful too! Hummers are also attracted! Growing it since Summer 2005. I give it a lean, well drained soil with sand and pea gravel on top. Don't cut back foliage til mid spring until you see new growth.