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Plant ID, ? Agastache

15 years ago

I think I got this at the plant swap last spring. it smells like an agastache and has similar flowering habit with many tiny flowers in long clusters. The flowers are white and the plant is about 6 ft tall. It started blooming about 6 weeks ago and is now finishing up.

Any ideas?

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trianglejohn
15 years ago
I may have brought a Salvia leucantha that blooms in long white sprays... leaves are narrow, makes a big round bush.
dogridge
Original Author
15 years ago
nope, it's not Salvia leucantha. I've had a couple of those. (They didn't make it through last winter. :-( You don't happen to have an extra do you?)

It has that distictive agastache smell. Maybe 'Blue Fortune' do they get that big and are they white?
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tamelask
15 years ago
agastaches come in white. I'd guess if it looks like an agastache and smells like one, that's what it is. Mine were quite tall this year when they bloomed as well, esp the white. It got to about 5'.
trianglejohn
15 years ago
I can bring cuttings to the fall swap or next spring's swap. Some years they make it through winter and some years they don't.
tamelask
15 years ago
John, can you bring some of the orange/pink ones? I will be bringing some more of the white- it reseeds around a bit for me.

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