What Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop) Looks Like in Every Season: From Seed to Established Plant
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- See what Agastache foeniculum (Common names: Anise Hyssop, Blue Giant Hyssop, Blue Giant-hyssop, Fragrant Giant Hyssop, Lavender Hyssop, licorice plant) looks like in every season of the year, as it goes from seed to established plant. Also learn some interesting information about Agastache foeniculum and caring for it in your yard.
[Note: This is not what an established plant looks like in each season, but is instead what Anise Hyssop looks like going from seed to established plant in each season]
All video/images are created by the Native Flower Power UA-cam channel creator.
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References:
Rodale, J.I. The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. Emmaus Pennsylvania. pp. 522-523. 1969.
Pan, Ziliang. "Bee Visitation and Nectar Production of Anise Hyssop" (PDF). 1997. (ag.umass.edu/s...)
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Excellent video! Thank you for the work you have put into this. I'll be following your collection of videos as I am focusing on native flowers to my dry prairie region.
I'm so glad this was helpful for you, thank you for saying so! 🙂
excellent job on this video! Thank you!
Yes! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Truly appreciate your full life cycle on this especially because this is the first year I’m trying from seed. I had been concerned about the lack of growth for so long after germination thanks a bunch
I'm glad this was handy for you. It can surely be hard to go from seed sometimes because you're just not sure what to expect and how long it'll all take!
Very helpful video! Thank you for taking the time to do this. 👍
It's good to hear my video was helpful. 🙂 By the way, very much appreciate your channel, as well!
Awesome work and very informative! We need more episodes!
Thank you, glad it was helpful!
So appreciate the seed to established plant.
I'm very glad to hear that, thank you!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED THANK YOU!!!
☺ You're welcome! I'm so glad to hear that!
Thank you for showing the correct plant, there is so much mistaken identity! Even growers are not growing Anise hyssop despite labeled as such, but a look alike that doesn't smell like Anise, actually kinda stinky. A. foeniculum will have shinier leaves, a bit darker green and smaller toothed leaf edges, than the look alikes.
Glad my identification passes inspection! 🙂 But also, thank you for the heads up and info on a look-alike that is fooling some gardeners! That is helpful information. I wonder what the look-alike is..?
It is disheartening when people are trying to plant/buy native, and end up with the wrong things because a seller sends them the wrong thing (either intentionally or unintentionally). I suppose in some sense it's also an unofficial indicator for North Americans as to how far the general public is from knowing their own native plants. If someone here purchases some daffodil bulbs, they (and everyone else) will know when springtime comes if they got the wrong thing. We all know those non-natives by heart. But purchase an Anise Hyssop and most people won't know one way or the other whether it's the real thing or not when it comes up. It's too bad, but then again, the number of North Americans figuring their plants out is growing, and so that's heartening. We're starting to figure it out.
Agastache Rugosa vs Agastache foeniculum
bigriverbigwoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ThreeProblemSpecies_v3.pdf and here is a video ua-cam.com/video/yur2hSIn9q8/v-deo.html@@nativeflowerpower9942
You also show great close up shots, so you can really see how shiny the leaves are, I think that is a very distinctive feature, thank you@@nativeflowerpower9942
@@tracyguillemette6255They both look so similar!
Thanks for this! I've already planned to plant my Anise Hyssop with my winter sowing here in zone 7b.
Thumbs up on that! 🙂
Thank you. Not only is the information a great help, you have a wonderful personality.
Well that is really nice, thank you :-) I'm glad the information is helpful -- that's my purpose!
I love anise hyssop, it’s pollinator magnet. I have it all over, but only one really thriving in raised bed, my garden soil is clay and wet so not best soil for them.
Yes, exactly! The clay and always a bit wet isn't so great for them -- they'll do okay, but not particularly great. And it IS a pollinator magnet! So true! All day it's just filled with activity.
I love your videos; they are very informative and you have a lovely soothing voice.
AMAZING 💚 Thank you for creating this Agastache story and share it with us. I just planed my FIRST one ("Blue Fortune") this early June within our new butterfly garden, and your story gives me insight what to expect (hopefully) 🙏
You're welcome! And they certainly can bloom in year one! Here's hoping for you!
Very helpful video! Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad it was what you needed!
Lovely and helpful video, thank you! Few people create videos than span this much time, but it's so helpful when I'm new to this plant, I started it from seed, and interested in learning what's ahead for my plant.
My question is, does anyone cut it back at all in its first year to create a bushier plant?
Second question is how to use for tea. Is it the leaves or the flowers or both? Fresh or dried? ☕️
1. Yes, if you cut it back just above a node, 2 branches will form at every cut, just like basil and mint. So, yes, it gets bushier.
2. You can use both the leaves and flowers, fresh or dried, for tea.
I agree with @fawnrosenberg1997 that you can cut it back (sometime early in the season) and it won't grow quite as tall, and will become more bush-like. I think one error people make is not cutting it early enough in the season. For the tea question, I defer to others to answer that, I've never tried to make tea from it yet.
Good segment. We r in our second year of having lots of this plant. We have been testing pinching it to control height. It’s working well. Crests more but smaller flowers.
Nice tip! I like little tricks like that that will keep natives in our yards but allow us to have them 'fit in' better in certain spots. When you say "smaller flowers", do you mean that the flower spikes are shorter or do you mean the individual tiny flowers are actually smaller?
Thank you.
You're welcome.
💜 this thank you
Thank you for such a valuable in depth video. This was exactly what I was looking for. I am so excited to get these established on my property now!
Oh wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that the video was precisely what you needed, and also that you're going to get some of them going! Thumbs up!
Wow, this video is exactly what I was hoping to find. Tremendously helpful! I’m growing from seed this year so it’s nice to have proper expectations. Thank you.
Wonderful! And you're welcome! I'm really glad this video was helpful and what you needed! 🙂
The way you said the genus name surprised me! I've been pronouncing it "ah-gah-stash-eh" lol
I think this is one part of scientific names that tickles me -- when people pronounce them differently! :-)
She’s also saying cot e Lee dons-- I have always been taught co tyl don--
It is ag uh stack ee-
they will do much better if you place them where they do not get water. unlike many mint plants, AH does not like wet feet. in fact it is probably the most wet intolerant of mint family most of which i grow in my orchard. i have a thing about mints 🙂 mints are absolutely awesome for attracting native pollinators, my orchard humms 🙂great vid. for identification, you might add some macro still shots.
Great video, like seeing the whole life cycle! I am trying to grow Agastache urticafolia out West here, I put some transplants out in March, then we got a cold snap and they died 😢 (I don't think the nursery had hardened them off). However one container had some extra seeds in it and so one germinated and grew very slowly (we had such a crappy spring, it was very cold very late and then like immediately hot) in the shade of a blackberry vine. In Sept when it got more mild down I cut the blackberry back and now have a very healthy small plant which will hopefully overwinter, I'm hoping to see the flowers next year 😊. This hopefully is going to be my native replacement for lavender, I'll see how it goes 🤷. It's more of a mountain species, and I'm in a valley so it might just rot? But I tried to give it a well-drained location and I'm hopeful 🤞🤞🤞.
Well now this is interesting. Very similar plants to eachother, A. foeniculum and A. urticafolia, I'm glad this video was useful to you, even though you're focused on something slightly different. It'll be very interesting to see how your little plant does in the spring! The fact that you ended up essentially starting it from seed in that location is a good sign for it being able to do okay there (if it was really unhappy in that spot, it never would've germinated!). I would agree, too, that these hyssops are decent replacements for non-native lavenders. They do have a similar look to them (purple flower spikes)!
My soil has heavy clay so I suspect that the roots that it's grown in that spot are probably more shallow than the transplant's roots were -- or maybe it's just sensitive to disturbance, I don't know. I did place it on a slope though and I planted it with the crown a little above grade. My hope was that this species might be able to tolerate drying out a bit more in the summer -- it's not native to the exact region that I'm in, but a lot closer to me than the native range of foeniculum. I do think it will probably need protection from extreme heat in the summer. It grows in Utah, but in the mountains so I'm not sure. Thanks for the encouragement 🙏
wow thank you! Love this with all the seasons . Great info
I'm very glad that this was helpful!
Wow thanks for documenting all the stages! I’ve got a bunch of different Agastache I bought as plants and have propagated by cuttings. I just recently bought some seeds. I’m excited to start them, but the packets don’t even mention cold stratifying!
Fingers crossed you get some decent blooms in that first year! Such a nice quality of A. foeniculum ☺
Might I ask where you bought your seeds? I like hearing where people are going to get their seeds. It's interesting how some companies go quite in-depth on exactly how to get the seeds to grow (stratification, scarification, etc.), while others send you a packet with no info included.
@@nativeflowerpower9942they’re from baker creek. I appreciate how much info Johnny’s Select Seeds lists on their seed packets
This was very useful, thanks
Thank you a lot for this Video! It is really helpful. Greetings from Germanyシ
Guten tag!
Nice video! My agastache black adders from cuttings are at 3-4 feet already and blooming in June :D
Do you deadhead the flowers?
Excellent!
Thank you! 🙂
Thank you for this video! Really intrigued by your "transplant to the yard when 2 inches tall" rule of thumb. Do you use that guideline for all transplants?
Hm. Now that's a question no one has ever asked me before. I suppose when I think about it, I'd say that that is indeed my rule of thumb; however, if a plant is not doing particularly well anymore, I'll move it sooner, or if a plant comes up fast and gets tall quickly, sometimes it'll be more than 2 inches tall when I move it out. Not a particularly helpful answer, I'm afraid.
@@nativeflowerpower9942 Helpful, actually. Thanks for your response!
It is so nice to hear a for-real person speaking. That artificial robot narration is so annoying!
I have been tossing handfuls of seeds in areas that I want them to grow in the fall.
I heard someone give a talk who plants big areas of land with native plants and one thing he repeated quite a lot was, "Seeds must contact soil." He must've said it tens of times, and he said the people he works with get tired of hearing it. But he was quite adamant that if the seeds you toss don't directly contact soil, the chance of them getting down to the soil and germinating drops considerably. So now when I toss seeds around, I am sure to get them down there on the actual dirt properly. Not sure if that is useful to you.
Do you cut last years dead growth off once the new emerges?
No. Because Spring bees (and other insects) use those standing-dead stalks for nesting sites in the springtime, if we cut them down when spring growth emerges, we've whacked down potential nests while they're still being used. The rule of thumb on this one is to wait until the ground surface is an even 50F before removing last years dead growth. I estimate this very unscientifically by thinking one day, "Huh, haven't worn a coat in a week or two" -- that's usually when I'll take away old dead stalks, unless I keep them up indefinitely (which I do sometimes too). And in "taking away" old dead stalks, I do bundle them and set them upright behind a tree in the back so that they can potentially still be used by insects, or I won't be ruining any current nests.
Oh dang why don’t you have tops on the milk jugs every video I’ve seen has the lids on
Honestly, I never knew that milk jugs was "a thing" being used in the plant/gardening world. I just needed more things to grow seeds from and we go through so much milk, I just started cutting the jugs in half and using them as planters on the patio. I didn't realize that people were using the tops as little greenhouses, etc. So whether you use tops or not might depend on what you're trying to do exactly. Now that I've learned more about this milk jug method, I'm going to continue growing my seedlings the way that I do (no lids/tops) because I want the seeds that germinate and "make it" as seedlings to be hardy and ready for my yard and conditions. I don't want seedlings that need special care -- do you know what I mean? That being said, it's an educated hypothesis of mine, no data behind it!
smells like anise!
Yes! Quite!
What a shame it doesn’t bloom no longer than a month…
Isn't this supposed to bloom from July-Oct?
@@Hayley-sl9lm Yes, usually in July.
Personally, I constantly pinch them throughout the warm seasons until late August so the flower spikes appear in September! It makes the plant shorter but with much more flowers!
I've got tons of these. They bloom from July through most of November here in Indy (6a)
@@HoosierDaddy_ Harvesting seeds just from _one_ past-season flower spike will yield enough for the rest of one’s lifetime! So much that you can even afford to grow agastaches like an annual plant even though it’s a 3-4 years perennial! 🤘
@@KishorTwist * I haven't grown any from seed. I'll try that this season!