Longfellow's Greenhouses Online Plant Guide

Other Names:  Anise Hyssop, Licorice Mint, Hummingbird Mint

Group/Class:  Beelicious® Series

Brand:  Dümmen Orange

Description:

An easy-to-care for, upright and well branched selection featuring spikes of vibrant light-pink flowers with burgundy calyces; a favorite for native butterflies and hummingbirds; soothing, aromatic, licorice scented foliage for the fragrant garden

Ornamental Features

Beelicious® Pink Hyssop features airy spikes of lightly-scented shell pink tubular flowers with burgundy calyces rising above the foliage from mid summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its attractive fragrant pointy leaves remain grayish green in color with distinctive dark green veins throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Beelicious® Pink Hyssop is an open herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Beelicious® Pink Hyssop is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
• Herb Gardens

Planting & Growing

Beelicious® Pink Hyssop will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 16 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 6 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for alkaline soils, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

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