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Hardiness: USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F) USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F) USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F) USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F) USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F) USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F) USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
On Feb 24, 2008, saya from Heerlen
(Netherlands) (Zone 8b) wrote:
A. 'Blue Fortune' is bred and selected by Gert Fortgens of the Arboretum Trompenburg in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I've been told that the flowers are sterile and that this explains its long time flowering. A. 'Blue Fortune' can be propagated by division or by cuttings taken before flowering. Received AGM in 2003 for its good habit.
On Jul 24, 2007, gotpeace91 from Gravette, AR wrote:
If you want to attract bees to your garden, grow this plant! It attracts bees more than any other plant I've owned. It also attracts small butterflies and has a great licorice scent to the leaves.
On Mar 18, 2007, berrygirl from Braselton, GA (Zone 7b) wrote:
AGASTACHE A. BLUE FORTUNE Anise Hyssop - 36" - Plant 20" apart. Z5-10 Blue violet flower spikes on wonderfully spicy fragrant foliage. Long flowering--Hyssop Equally good in the border, and as a candidate for container growing. The better the drainage the happier the plant. Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies, with minty aromatic foliage. A customer advises us that her Goldfinches are wild for Agastache.
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Equally good in the border, and as a candidate for container growing. The better the drainage the happier the plant. Attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies, with wonderfully spicy fragrant licorice scented foliage. A customer advises us that her Goldfinches are wild for Agastache seed. Most Agastache will self seed readily.
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On May 28, 2006, QCapen from Colorado Springs, CO (Zone 5a) wrote:
This plant has thrived in our front yard, becoming quite a centerpiece. It is a prolific bloomer, attracting bees and butterflies from mid-July through September. 'Blue Fortune' has been one of the only plants that the deer have not even attempted to taste in the yard. It has proven to be quite drought tolerant in its partial shade site and grows to about 36" tall by 30" wide. I basically just stuck it in the ground and have forgotten about it and it has been a top-notch performer.
I planted this early this spring from nursery stock (Bluestone Perennials) in the belief that it was anise hyssop. (Actually, it seems, it is a hybrid of anise hyssop and Korean Mint--agastache rugosa). Nevertheless it has the distinct aroma and taste of anise. It is now about 30" tall and began blooming in early June. It is quite pretty and attracts goldfinches, which I have never seen here before (in Hampton, VA). My soil is clay, which I try to amend with organic matter, and depending whether it's flood or drought, the soil is wet or dry. But this plant doesn't seem to mind.
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This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Gravette, Arkansas Harrison, Arkansas Colorado Springs, Colorado Brooksville, Florida Columbus, Georgia Winterville, Georgia Baldwin City, Kansas Olathe, Kansas Hebron, Kentucky West Buxton, Maine Aberdeen, Maryland Bridgewater, Massachusetts Lexington, Massachusetts Pinconning, Michigan Perham, Minnesota Elsberry, Missouri Brick, New Jersey New Milford, New Jersey Fuquay Varina, North Carolina Cincinnati, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Saint Thomas, Pennsylvania Anderson, South Carolina Sioux Falls, South Dakota Hampton, Virginia Lexington, Virginia Orange, Virginia
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