Agastache is definately a good plant for hummers! They also love salvias of all types (I like S. guarantica 'Black & Blue' because of the deep blue color, so I plant that - also S. elegans (Pineapple Sage) if you live in zone 7 or 8, because it blooms late(usually late Sept. and into October and if you are in a cooler area, the hummers have usually begun their journey south. It's worth planting, though---bright red color later in the season, good height (up to 4') and the leaves smell deliciously of pineapple.
Here is a close-up of Agastache (aga-stacky)
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Here's a shot of it in the pot - the background tall green plant is Aloysia citrodora (lemon verbena) and blue salvia (S. farinacea) 'Blue VIctoria' and a little upright fuchsiawhish I later dug out and replanted because it was being overtaken). The agastache has a bit of a unkempt appearance and works better if it has another plant to help support it (thus the lemon verbena)
This is a shot of the back garden in late August - cardinal vine (Ipoemea sloteri) -it's on a bit of fence that you can't really see in the shot-, Gallardia grandiflora "Oranges & Lemons" and the S. guarantica 'Black & Blue' te hummers like both cardinal vine flowers and the salvia.
Another annual hummers love is Penta lanceolata - best grown in a pot and placed where you can observe; they need to be deadheaded fairly often.
Other plants they like - lantana, bee balm, hosta flowers, diascia and mints of any kind when they flower though be careful where you plant it lest it take over your part of the world. They also visit butterfly bush.
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Date: 2017-01-10 01:41 am (UTC)Here is a close-up of Agastache (aga-stacky)
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Here's a shot of it in the pot - the background tall green plant is Aloysia citrodora (lemon verbena) and blue salvia (S. farinacea) 'Blue VIctoria' and a little upright fuchsiawhish I later dug out and replanted because it was being overtaken). The agastache has a bit of a unkempt appearance and works better if it has another plant to help support it (thus the lemon verbena)
This is a shot of the back garden in late August - cardinal vine (Ipoemea sloteri) -it's on a bit of fence that you can't really see in the shot-, Gallardia grandiflora "Oranges & Lemons" and the S. guarantica 'Black & Blue' te hummers like both cardinal vine flowers and the salvia.
Another annual hummers love is Penta lanceolata - best grown in a pot and placed where you can observe; they need to be deadheaded fairly often.
Other plants they like - lantana, bee balm, hosta flowers, diascia and mints of any kind when they flower though be careful where you plant it lest it take over your part of the world. They also visit butterfly bush.
Aren't ya glad you asked? :)