Giant Hyssop Agastache 'Acapulco Orange'
Other Common Name(s):
Other plants called Giant Hyssop:
- Phonetic Spelling
- ag-ah-STA-kee
- Description
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'Acapulco Orange' Giant Hyssop is a hybrid cultivar with showy orange flowers in the mint family. It grows 1-2 feet tall and nearly as wide. This plant adds an airiness to the garden with fine foliage and spikes of tubular orange flowers. The bloom time is from late spring to frost and the minty scent is a pollinator magnet.
Good drainage is essential for this plant and sandy low fertility soils in full sun are ideal. Wet winter feet in poorly drained soils will do this plant in.
Use 'Acapulco Orange' near the front of the perennial border in native/pollinator gardens. Raised beds and rock gardens work great to provide good drainage. They can also be grown in containers placed on the patio so you can enjoy the hummingbirds and bees that visit it.
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Agastache
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Perennial
- Recommended Propagation Strategy:
- Division
- Seed
- Wildlife Value:
- Flowers attract butterflies, hummingbirds and bees
- Play Value:
- Attracts Pollinators
- Particularly Resistant To (Insects/Diseases/Other Problems):
- Deer and rabbit resistant
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Herbaceous Perennial
- Perennial
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Habit/Form:
- Clumping
- Erect
- Growth Rate:
- Medium
- Maintenance:
- Low
- Texture:
- Fine
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
- Soil Texture:
- Loam (Silt)
- Sand
- Shallow Rocky
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Occasionally Dry
- Available Space To Plant:
- Less than 12 inches
- 12 inches-3 feet
- NC Region:
- Coastal
- Mountains
- Piedmont
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Orange
- Flower Inflorescence:
- Spike
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Fragrant
- Good Cut
- Long Bloom Season
- Showy
- Flower Bloom Time:
- Fall
- Spring
- Summer
- Flower Shape:
- Tubular
- Flower Size:
- < 1 inch
- Flower Description:
- Airy spikes of tubular orange flowers from late spring to frost
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Leaves:
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Leaf Value To Gardener:
- Fragrant
- Leaf Type:
- Simple
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Opposite
- Leaf Shape:
- Lanceolate
- Leaf Margin:
- Crenate
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Length:
- 1-3 inches
- Leaf Width:
- 1-3 inches
- Leaf Description:
- Fragrant lance-shaped dark green leaves. Up to 1.75 inches long and 1.25 inches wide with crenate margins.
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Stem:
- Stem Color:
- Green
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
- Stem Cross Section:
- Square
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Landscape:
- Landscape Location:
- Container
- Naturalized Area
- Patio
- Landscape Theme:
- Drought Tolerant Garden
- Garden for the Blind
- Pollinator Garden
- Rock Garden
- Design Feature:
- Border
- Attracts:
- Bees
- Butterflies
- Hummingbirds
- Pollinators
- Resistance To Challenges:
- Deer
- Drought
- Rabbits
