Anise Hyssop: The BUSIEST PLANT in My Garden!
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2024
- Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is a superstar of a pollinator plant for the garden. Native to North America and Canada, the flowers on this plant are so beautiful and attract bees, butterflies, and birds to your garden. Any eco-friendly garden could really benefit from agastache, because it really helps wildlife ecology. The flowers, stems, and roots really give so much back to the environment and have a benefit to wildlife far beyond their beauty.
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I think this is the first video i have truly enjoyed listening to. Honestly, I promise you'll enjoy her voice, consistency, and overall education.
Thank you Carla, you're so kind
Cannot say enough about this plant Will never have a garden without it
Same
I had a dream last night that someone gave me some hyssop plants. I guess it was a sign to grow some!
Wow! That's a sign for sure! 🌱🌱🌱
Agreed!
Very unique content, I really appreciate that you speak to the beginning gardener as well as having great tips for the established one 👍
Thanks so much! 🌱🌱
Funny story, I bought a Hyssop for my garden. They wanted $20 for the plant, but I purchased a smaller one for $10. The second season it grew to 6 ft. I deadhead, it flushes back. Then I pruned it to the ground, not realizing (as you point out) it feeds yellow finch, or protects bees during the winter. Thank you for your video, as I try my best to put natives, for the bees & birds all year long.
Thanks for watching! Wow, 6ft! It sounds like it really likes where you planted it! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
This was the first video of yours that I watched. You did a great job. You covered all the bases well. My goal is to plant native plants on this property to help the local wildlife. This is a plant I was already planning on getting, but I learned more about it than I knew.
Thanks so much! 🌱🌱🌱
This plant is the GOAT of all my plants for pollinators. I have a cultivar that I'm replacing with the native species this year. I've never seen birds on the cultivar but the plant literally buzzes with activity all summer.
That's awesome! 🌱🌱🌱
I planted 4 of these last year, I have to move them this spring but looking forward to seeing them grow and feed so many things.
Awesome! Thanks for watching. 🌱🌱🌱
I take down my "standing garden straw" in April, and set it up in a back corner so birds and bees can make the most of it, before composting.
I LOVE the tea! I also blend anise hyssop with holy basil leaves for tea. So good!!!
I'm definitely going to try it soon!
My hyssop seeds are just now beginning to sprout! So timely coming across your most informative video! Armed with your shared info, I will plant them everywhere in my garden and not just a few here and there as I have done in the past! Thanks so much!
Thanks for your comment! Yeah these guys like to be bunched together. I hope you get so much wildlife visiting! 🌱🌱🌱
How did you sow it? Mine never germinated. 😥
Hi, to germinate the seeds, I grouped them all together into a small pot, about 15 sprouted and with tweezers, I transplanted each one into its own tiny pot. I was sparse with watering and used a heated mat at 68º with a grow light. It took almost 10 days, but they seem ok so far. Good luck.
Your video just popped up in my feed so I decided to watch. Now I've subscribed. Loved the happy presence you have and the depth of content. I have agastache in various colours here in Australia and the insects have been loving it. I think I have some seeds I bought of your native one but will have to check the name. I'm glad you compared it to the blue fortune because I was wondering myself how different they actually are and was about to plant a blue fortune but now I think that area would be great for the native one seeing it needs friends to support it. Great video. Will check out your others later on.
THANK YOU for pronouncing the name correctly 🙏🏻
Great content! Appreciate your full disclosure on your experience with growing from cuttings. Sometimes feels like we don’t talk enough about the downsides of a propagation method.
Thanks! Yeah in this case the seeds are super easy and you can get a large volume in no time. 🌱🌱🌱
Anise Hyssop is definitely a pollinator favorite in my garden. There's one thing that may get more action which is the blunt mountain mint which has been blooming for a while now. The hyssop is just starting to bloom so they will have overlapping bloom time; can't wait to see who comes to visit.
Ooh that mountain mint must be so busy this time of year! 🌱🌱🌱
I ❤ Anise Hyssop & I ❤ this video!
Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
YES! I love them so much!! When they start outgrowing their spaces in my beds, I transplant some out and put it in a pot for the year just to have even more around.
Love it! Those blooms last so long too. 🌱🌱🌱
Awesome, im so glad i started seeds for this
I agree - this plant is awesome!!
Beautiful.
I have some Agastache rugosa (korean mint) that has settled in nice with some Melissa officinalis (lemon balm) in my hellstrip (place between sidewalk and road). Love the constant attention they get from lil critters. The teas are amazing too.
Wow! So many bees!
Thanks notoots! 🌱🌱🌱
I love your combination of Annise hyssop with the echinacea pallida? It looks absolutely beautiful! I grow both of these but not next to each other. I will next year!
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOSSS!!! THANK YOU!!!💜
I'm wintersowing some agastache! Yay!
Thanks so much! Happy gardening! 🌱🌱🌱
You've sold me! Thank you for this video packed full of info. I have some anise hyssop seeds asking to be planted right now - thank you for the reminder!! 💚
Awesome! They grow fast! 🌱🌱🌱
This is such a well done video. Every aspect of it. Thank you for all of your info and effort. I’m gonna try to grow this now!
What a kind compliment! I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you so much. 🌱🌱🌱
Love the fragrance! Haven't had one for years. Gotta have them now.
Awesome! Thanks for watching 🌱🌱🌱
Thanks!
Omg this is my first super thanks!! Thank you so much! 🌱❤️🌱
Love them!! I have 2 Blue Fortune in my gardens and I bought 2 for my parent’s last summer, too. Powers through full sun in my zone 6a yard and I never have to do a thing to it. And yes, pollinators LOVE it. I have mine in a garden alongside butterfly bush and salvia and I have a good, dozen different types of insect partying down at any given time of day. 🐝 🦋
Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
LIIIISA!
So I just recognized my first native plant in my yard! I was sitting in the sun when a plant caught my eye.
I said,
“Wait… I know that plant,” and felt it.
It was sedge. It was sedge I’m so fricken stoked that you taught me this!!! Thank youuuuuuuu, kind teacher!! Woo! I ended up finding a wild aster also. Yay! This is so much fun.
This is so awesome to hear! Way to go! 🌱🌱🌱
I watch many landscape videos. You’re presentation style is excellent!
Thanks so much for the compliment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 🌱🌱🌱
Agastache is the best plant for pollinators. I especially love the Blue Boa variety. Nothing bothers it and it blooms for months. This is the first time I have seen your video and really enjoyed it!
Thanks so much I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 🌱🌱🌱
Thank you for your videos! Very informative and entertainingly presented. 🙏🌱 I grew this for the first time last year and kept them in small containers to see how they behave. I love them and can't believe how many seeds they produce! I put some in ground in fall and they're returning as well as the ones still in small containers. (Zone 6a Western NY.) I also tried tea from leaves and it is so good! I'm normally not a big of the anise flavor, but I can't wait to make more of this tea. I looked to buy dried leaves and they were quite expensive. Glad I can grow it myself. Growing lots of these this year! Thank you for the helpful info.
I'm so glad you had success with this! Now I'm excited to try the tea! Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
This is my absolute favorite plant. I bought some at the garden center a few years ago because they were covered in bees. In my winter jug there are many many germinated agastache foeniculum and just to make sure, I’ve ordered some cultivated plant plugs.
Thanks for your comment! Yes they pop up all the time! Free plants and not a nuisance if you have too many, because they are easy to remove! 🌱🌱🌱
Lol, I’m planting a lot of Agastache and after seeing pics you showed I probably have it growing in my yard already😅
I have different colors though. Hope they all take. I do know we have spotted horsemint and wild bee balm and they just Hum and bounce with pollinators.
That's awesome! 🌱🌱🌱
Would love a comparison video tasting and testing different herbal teas 😊 loved this video - just subscribed!
Will try! Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
Nice video 🎉
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱
Great video Miss, with so much information! Thank you! I am in UK and I am really keen to atttract bees and butterflies to a Church yard near me so I will have to try seeding this plant. At worst the seeds will help to feed the birds and mice!
Just subscribed! Thank you for your great videos. I would love to see one about Wild Senna. I grew some last year for the first time and it was a bee magnet!
Thank you so much! That is a great idea! 🌱🌱🌱
Saw these at my local garden center yesterday, got distracted and forgot to go back to them. Time to make a trip back!
Oops! Another trip to the garden center! 😄🌱🌱🌱
🤞 1st time winter sowing- hoping to have some to plant. Just in case it doesn't work, I have some in the fridge waiting for the 30 day stratification period and will try under grow lights. Love your channel! Thanks
Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
I bought 100 dollars worth of this as live plants and also a couple packets of seed in case I wasn't able to get it to grow, what I like is the blooms and that it doesn't really spread, all of the ones that are towards the blue side of the colors seem to grow better than then red and orange ones I've gotten.
I bought this with the idea of making tea eventually, I like licorice tea but found out it makes my blood pressure go up. The leaves depending on variety are either really bitter to me or they have a hint of sweetness and licorice flavor.
Would love a video on Sundial Lupine :)
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱
Cultivars can also just be the species plant but selected and propagated because of a particular feature ...larger/longer bloom, new foliage with an interesting color, size, habit, etc.
Yes! The one I discuss here happens to be a hybrid but many cultivars have just been selected and bred for particular characteristics and not hybridized.
It’s already a few inches high, coming back beautiful!
Love it! 🌱🌱🌱
I never knew that the birds loved it because I never caught them on it but good to know 😊
I set up my camera and let it run for a while to catch them on video! Goldfinches are shy ☺️🌱🌱🌱
Really impressed by the content. Well done
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it. 🌱🌱🌱
not medium moisture, it like dry. here in n. idaho, i never water it at all just like catnip. they are perfect for outside garden borders. gold finches do love them very much. i did not have any at the orchard until i put in the anise hyssop. another great thing about having them along with catnip on the perimeter of the garden is that they attract pollinators and repulse many of the problem pests. if you are going to do cuttings, it is best to use mashed willow paste which will speed up rooting considerably. i grow all the mint family around my orchard. they are great flavoring for my stew providing many health benefits. i also make a bug spray for myself that is much better than deet and acts like a force field when i am working in my little orchard / food forest / garden 🙂
I just bought a few agastache and then this pops into my feed haha
To CONFINE THE AGGRESSIVE SEED SPREAD, DEADHEAD or lay down a couple inches of mulch. I didn't and was pulling dozens of plants from my hellstrip.
I threw lots of anisé hyssop seeds around but I’m not sure if they will come up. Fingers crossed.
I think they will! 🌱🌱🌱
Yep I bought one from a vendor at my farmer's market and now I have 24589, including growing out of gaps between the patio pavers. And then I discovered it's not locally native to Maryland, oops. But the bees L O V E it and the goldfinches too.
Sorry to hear that, I also have extras! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I'll have to look up that cultivar. The one area I'm working on now gets good sun, but it's right at the end of the driveway and I'd like to keep everything in the bed short for visibility as you're pulling out on the road.
So important to keep visibility. I don't have that hubris but I'll bet you can cut that one back in June and keep it even shorter. Cheers! 🌱🌱🌱
@@lisalikesplants Hubris?
Lisa could you do a video on how to plant Milk Weed plants from seed
I will!
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Thank you!! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
I have Blue Hyssop seedlings, will they work similarly?
I'm not too familiar with different common names- If its the same species you'll get the same plant- maybe you can do a search for "blue hyssop" + species name and compare.
Ag-ah-STACK-ee. You're welcome.
Omg this is my first pronunciation correction on the channel! 📢📢📢 I feel like I'm on my way to stardom! 😎
Looking forward to so many more
Any GA gardeners who have planted hyssop in our humid, often rainy climate? Interested to know whether you’ve had success. Thanks for all comments.
That's a great question, hopefully someone has the answer here!
I have an almost completely native yard, including the tall hyssop but the anise is a real magnet, as well. Another non native non invasive plant I have in my garden with anise hyssop is calamintha nepeta ssp. nepeta. Wow do the pollinators love it. Grows about a foot tall, blooms from June until frost, drought tolerant, doesn't seed everywhere, part to full sun. Make sure it's the straight species white flowering variety, as the other colors are less productive and the pollinators don't even bother with them. @nativepollinatorpatch
Thanks for this tip about the calamintha! It's a really nice one. 🌱🌱🌱
Your channel is great. Wish you were in FL because we only have like 3 FL gardening channels that talk about natives 🥹