Agastache "Purple Haze" - Giant or anise hyssop

Forms long spikes of smoky blue flowers.

A very attractive and easy to grow plant. Leaves have a delicious, liquorice-like smell. From mid-summer to frost, plants have spires of dark blue flowers.

Anise or giant hyssops are among the most bee-attracting plants in North America.

Historically, mass plantings of one species, anise hyssop, were established in parts of the Midwest and Canada specifically as a honey plant. Nineteenth-century beekeeper accounts claimed that a single acre could provide ample forage for 100 colonies of bees, and that bees preferred giant hyssop even to sweetclover." - 100 Plants to Feed the Bees

Purple Haze is a cultivar hybridized from Agastache foeniculum (native to the Northeast US).

Height: 2-2.5 ft.

Sun: Sun

Water: Medium to dry

Bloom color: Dark blue

Bloom time: July, August, September