Agastache Liquorice Blue

Tall, aromatic, and irresistible to wildlife. Agastache Liquorice Blue produces violet-blue bottle-brush spikes of extraordinary wildlife value, rising above foliage that releases a powerful aniseed and liquorice scent at the slightest touch — one of the most bee-rich plants you can grow, flowering from July through to the first October frosts.

Unusually for a perennial, it flowers in its first year from seed — making it as rewarding as an annual while building into a long-lived, increasingly floriferous plant year on year.

• Agastache 'Liquorice Blue' — Hardy Perennial (H4)
• Height: 60–90cm | Flowers: July–October
• Sow indoors February–April at 20°C; surface sow
• Full sun; well-drained soil — drought-tolerant once established
• Flowers in Year 1 from seed
• Outstanding bee and butterfly plant — one of the best in the range

Grow it with Echinacea and Rudbeckia for a late-summer border that hums with bees and butterflies from July to October.