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One of my favorite Agastaches! 'Tutti Frutti' in bloom in front of Lavender 'Grosso'. I really love this Agastache! Beautiful!

July 7, 06.

Love this one! It's Penstemon 'Red Rocks'. I love it so much that I got a second plant of it.

Closeup in July.

Of course, this is one of my very favorite plants in my yard! Daylily 'Marilyn Grua'. It's named after me. I took this photo in July 2005 at Dan and Jackie Bachman's Valley of the Daylilies. It's in 'better form' then the start I got from Dan last year. Mine hadn't 'settled in' yet.



Marilyn

Here's a pic that shows the height of it. Dan Bachman registered it as 48” tall with the bloom size as 7.75”.

Marilyn

Another photo of Agastache 'Tutti Frutti'.

Echinacea 'Fragrant Angel'.

Agastache 'Tutti Frutti', Echinacea 'White Swan', Perovskia (Russian Sage) 'Little Spires' and Echinacea 'Magnus'.

Beautiful Marilynbeth !
Bettygail I've never grown Coleus by seed I bet they will be stunning !

Another shot of Agastache mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink' in different lighting (shows more of the truer colors).

Love this one! Beautiful!

Marilyn

This one of Agastache mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink' is in a different part of my flower bed. It's next to Salvia 'Mystic Blue Spires'.

Thanks Allison.

Salvia 'Lady in Red'. This is a 2006 seedling that came up from one of the previous plants I had in the backyard the year before. Love it! Always attracts Hummers! Beautiful!

Marilyn, I am absolutely drooling over your flowers - and you have a wonderful ability to put things together!

Allison, lovely, lovely!!!

Skimper, that Morning Glory is . . . well . . . glorious! What a shade of blue that is - I'd love a sweater that color!

Agastache aurantiaca 'Coronado'. Love it!

Thanks Murmur.

MB,
Is Agastache the plant I call Hysopp? It looks the same, and the bees just go nuts over it. I got mine from a friend(he grew it from seed).

I'm up in zone 5, and it reseeds prolifically, here.

Deanna

One of my flowerbeds late morning 9/19/06.

I have different Lavenders, different Agastaches, different Salvias and different Echinaceas growing here. Some of the Salvias aren't 'hardy' in zone 6, but we'll see if they come back this year. Hope so!

This is one of 'my favorite' beds, because since I have MS, I can't be outside most of the Summers (too hot, too humid and too muggy for me) and I can look out the window behind the bed and see my flowers.

Thanks Murmur.
Marilynbeth do you grow them all by seed ?

Deanna,

Here's a link to one of High Country Gardens (Garden Watchdog 30 ) http://www.highcountrygardens.com/catalog/product/11825/. This is a great place to get Agastaches/Hyssops/Hummingbird Mints.

Another great place to get Agastaches/Hyssops/Hummingbird Mint is Lazy S'SFarm Nursery (Garden Watchdog 30 ). http://www.lazyssfarm.com/

I 'tend' to think the Agastaches attract the Hummers & the Hyssops attract the Butterflies and Bees. Also, I just refer to the whole group of all those plants as Hummingbird Mint, which they are.

Marilyn

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Allison,

I grow them by plants. But, when the Salvia 'Lady in Red' plants go to seed, I pick the stems with all the seeds and 'use' them for more plants.

Gorgeous colors you all!! Marilyn, Alison, and Dori!

Betty~
I have the best luck with Coleus by finding a cultivar I !love!, Then propigate the plant by cuttings. Growing from seed has always been inconsistant for me but *different can be good*. Just to ensure I get what I want I rather clone than seed Coleus. Another thing with these beautiful tenders is to not let them go to seed. It saps the life out of the plant's foliage. If planted with flowers and bloom food is used they will tend to flower more rapidly.
Coleus is a great plant! Most do best in soft sun or shade. In 100* weather I needed to water good either late at night or early in the morning every day, unless it rained.

Here is a cool place I just came across..Coleus finder it has 1115 pictures.
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Deb

Shhh~~ in this pic I had let the Limelight go to flower, eek!! The do make the most psychodelic purple flowers tho' it really does sap the plant.

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Here's another pic of Agastache aurantiaca 'Coronado' that shows more of the plant. It's behind Agastache mexicana 'Acapulco Salmon & Pink'.

LOL Deb!

Autumn Sage 'Rosea' (Salvia greggii) with Agastache rupestris (Sunset Hyssop). Morning sun shining on plants on 9/15/06.

Sowed some Agastasche rugosa, and still yet the Monarda fistulosa to sow. Even trying Syringa vulgaris...who knows it might turn out alright. Won't know until spring though, and it has me waiting..I keep reminding myself how to wait patiently! It's reaal hard!
Marilyn you have some stunning varieties!

Mariyn, you have more cultivars of salvia and Agastache than anyone I have ever seen.........how many years have you been in collecting all these!!!!!

Thanks Deb.

Thanks Gail. Only very recently. LOL! For the last 2 or 3 years.

I'm going to get alot more Salvia and Agastache this year. Some of the Salvia aren't hardy in my zone.

If I hadn't belonged to Dave's Garden and find out about the Garden Watchdog, I wouldn't know about all these companies to order these wonderful Salvias and Agastaches!

Marilyn

BTW, I got that Autumn Sage 'Rosea' (Salvia greggii) from Lowe's last year. Wished I had gotten more at the time.

Gail, keep an eye out weekly at Lowe's to see what they put out for plants. They usually put alot more plants Thursday and esp. on Friday (for the upcoming weekend crowds). I got Salvia 'Wild Thing', Salvia 'Hot Lips', Salvia "Flame', Agastache 'Tutti Frutti' there last Summer during different weeks.

Flowerbed next to sidewalk and driveway on 9/15/06 at 9 am with morning sun shining on it.

Mostly Salvias with a few Lavender varieties showing.

2 Salvia 'Flame' plants I got from Lowe's last year.

Sept. 15, 06 shot.

Salvia 'Dark Dancer' with Salvia miniata,(the Belize Sage) behind it in September.

Salvia ‘Mulberry Jam’ and Salvia miniata (the Belize Sage) in September.

'Mystic Spires Blue' Salvia with Agastaches behind it and on the left of it. 9/19/06.

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Closeup of Salvia darcyi with some Lavender and Verbena Bonariensis.

Here's another shot of it.

Gosh, Marilyn, the names alone are enough to make me buy them!

Here's a different view on one of the above pics of one of my flowerbeds.

Murmur,

LOL

This is the 'whole' shot of Salvia microphylla ‘San Carlos Festival’ in the plastic container - late afternoon of 9/25/06.

Another view of Agastache 'Tutti Frutti'. Actually, I have 3 plants in this area of this bed. Two of them are probably in the photo.

9/25/06 late afternoon.