(Black Adder Giant Hyssop, Giant Hyssop)

The hybrid hyssop ‘Black Adder’ is a long-blooming plant that attracts plentiful butterflies and bees to the garden. The tall, bushy, herbaceous perennial produces long spikes of dark purple flower buds that open to a powdery violet-blue. It begins blooming in the heat of midsummer and will continue up until frost if regularly deadheaded. Like most members of the mint family, it has fragrant foliage, which smells of anise when crushed.

Full sun is required for best flowering and good performance....

(Anise Hyssop, Blue Fortune Giant Hyssop, Blue Hyssop)

Blue fortune hyssop is a popular hardy perennial that is easy to grow and moderately drought tolerant. This strongly aromatic member of the mint family has an upright habit and downy, medium green, licorice-scented leaves. From mid to late summer, tall stems topped with dense spikes of lavender-blue flowers appear. Highly attractive to bees and butterflies, this plant will continue blooming into fall if deadheaded. Blue fortune hyssop is tolerant of poor soils and an excellent choice for sunny mixed...

(Heather Queen Hyssop, Hybrid Hyssop)

Everblooming and richly colored, the fragrant hybrid hyssop ‘Heather Queen’ is a delight to hummingbirds and butterflies and will boost the color level in any sunny summer garden. This compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial produces dense upright clusters of rose-pink tubular flowers. It begins blooming in early summer and will continue up until frost if regularly deadheaded. Like most Agastache, its small, soft green leaves are aromatic when crushed.

Full sun is required for...

(Agastache, Hybrid Hyssop, Pink Panther Agastache)

Pink panther hyssop is an drought tolerant short-lived perennial. Throughout the summer, this member of the mint family produces scented leaves that subtend long stems topped with loose spikes of, fragrant, tubular flowers of bright rose-pink. Everblooming and tolerant of poor soils, it requires little deadheading and is highly attractive to hummingbirds. Pink panther hyssop has is a superior perennial for sunny mixed beds and borders.

(Agastache, Hybrid Hyssop, Pink Pop Agastache)

Everblooming and brightly colored, ‘Pink Pop’ is a fragrant hybrid hyssop that will boost the color level in any sunny summer garden. This compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial produces dense upright clusters of pink tubular flowers. It begins blooming in early summer and will continue up until frost if regularly deadheaded. The flowers are highly attractive to hummingbirds and bees, and like most Agastache, its small, soft gray-green leaves are aromatic when crushed.

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(Hybrid Hyssop, Raspberry Summer Hyssop)

Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees find hard to resist the long-blooming hybrid hyssop ‘Raspberry Summer’. This clump-forming herbaceous perennial produces long dense spikes of large, deep rosy-red, tubular flowers. A fast-growing introduction from Terra Nova Nurseries, it can also be grown as annual in areas where it isn't hardy. It begins blooming in the heat of midsummer and will continue up until frost if regularly deadheaded. Like most members of the mint family, it has fragrant foliage, which...

(Agastache, Hybrid Hyssop, Summer Glow Agastache)

New for 2009, Summer glow agastache is irresistible to hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. Introduced by Terra Nova Nurseries, this upright, clump-forming herbaceous perennial produces long dense spikes of large, soft yellow, tubular flowers. Each is nestled in a showy reddish calyx that persists after the petals fall. It begins blooming in the heat of midsummer and will continue up until frost if regularly deadheaded. Like most members of the mint family, it has fragrant foliage, which smells of...

(Hybrid Hyssop)

Another beautiful introduction from Terra Nova Nurseries, the long blooming Summer love agastache provides a great contrast in form and color when combined with the classic black-eyed Susan. Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees find hard to resist this long-blooming hybrid hyssop. A clump-forming herbaceous perennial, it produces narrow, dense spikes of large, bright purple-pink, tubular flowers from summer through frost. Like most members of the mint family, it has fragrant bright green foliage, which...

(Hybrid Hyssop, Tutti-frutti Hyssop)

This vigorous hybrid hyssop is a tall, strongly aromatic, drought tolerant perennial. Throughout the heat of summer it bears loose spikes of rose-pink tubular flowers that contrast nicely with its gray-green foliage. These require minimal deadheading and are attractive to hummingbirds.

Tolerant of poor soils and high heat, this plant requires full sun and limited supplemental water once established. Tutti-frutti hyssop is an excellent perennial for sunny mixed borders and hummingbird gardens....

(Orange Hummingbird Mint)

Orange hyssop is a strongly aromatic, highly drought tolerant, bushy perennial that originates from the southwestern United States and Mexico. This member of the mint family has strongly scented minty leaves that appear on long stems topped with loose spikes of tubular orange to lavender-rose flowers. Colorful and everblooming, they flower all growing season, require little deadheading and are hummingbird magnets. Plant them in sites with average to poor, well drained soil and full sun. Orange hyssop...