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Expert: - 9/5/2010


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Don't know what it is
Hi CL
This has been sprouting up in several areas of my garden.
Can you tell me what it is?

Answer
Pat,
This looks like Agastache foeniculum - common name anise hyssop. Although the variety called 'Blue Fortune' doesn't self-seed, the straight species is a notorious self-seeder. Fortunately easy to pull up, but I'd either deadhead or pull those that have appeared before they go to seed.

If you like it, either keep and deadhead or buy 'Blue Fortune' so you don't have to worry about seedlings.

all the best,
C.L.
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C.L. Fornari

Expertise

Annuals suggested for specific situations (sun, shade, windowboxes etc) New or unusual annuals are a particular interest of mine, and I grow many of these from seed. I am happy to help problem solve, answer questions about maintenance, and guide you to sources of unusual plants.

Experience

I am a garden writer/speaker/consultant and host of a weekly gardening radio program in the Northeast. I have been gardening all my life for my own pleasure, and started as a professional gardener and garden communicator 15 years ago. I work part-time at a garden center, selling and tending shrubs/trees/annuals/perennials...and doing some propagation and design work. I often think that all these professional activities serve to put a somewhat legitimate framework around a serious case of plant-lust.

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