![]() Propagate by seed or by division in spring.Deadhead spent flowers to promote additional bloom.Generally disease and pest-free (might occasionally be subject to powdery mildew) and resistant to deer and rabbits.Attracts streams of hummingbirds, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators.Creates a stunning effect when mixed with other perennials or planted en masse.Ideal to add color to the late-season garden when many other plants are fading.Provides a bold visual impact in beds and borders, cottage gardens, city gardens, butterfly gardens, or patio containers over a very long season.Although a drought-tolerant plant, it might need watering in extreme dry weather spells. Easily grown in full sun, in average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils.The aromatic leaves exude a minty scent when crushed. Its appeal has continued over the years and it’s now grown internationally in Europe and across North America. This Agastache belongs to the Kudos Series, which is noted for its dwarf, well-branched plants that are hardy and nearly impervious to downy mildew. This rare species from southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona, only known to a few botanists at the time, was selected as a Plant Select winner in 1997, and became instantly popular. It's the fourth Agastache in the Kudos series and after looking at the pics, I think it's beautiful. Delicate-looking but fast-growing, this pretty Agastache is among the best of all hardy perennials for attracting pollinating insects. Agastache Kudos Silver Blue is a 2013 introduction by Terra Nova Nurseries. Blooming continuously weeks after weeks, they provide long-lasting, glowing color in beds, borders, or containers and hummingbirds feast on them. Silver Blue has light blue tubular flowers all summer long into the fall. The charming, airy flowerspikes feature silver blue colors, bringing a whole composition of warm, graceful color to the bed, border, or container. This compact cultivar features more colors than other Hyssops, and blooms earlier in the season. From early summer until fall, it boasts plump spikes of soft, clear light blue flowers. These free flowering and well branched perennials have large blooms and will flower late spring. Agastache is a fantastic hummingbird, butterfly and pollinator bee attractor and has fragrant cut flowers. For a seemingly endless show of color and scent in the sunny garden, look to Kudos Silver Blue. Agastache 'Kudos Silver Blue' (Hummingbird Mint) is a compact and bushy, upright herbaceous perennial forming a low mound of aromatic, deep green, oval to lance-shaped leaves.
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