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Agastache Blue Fortune

LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,409
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Is Agastache late to emerge in spring? There's no sign of life on mine yet but perhaps it's too early. 

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 11,943
    I think Blue Fortune tends to be rather short lived. They don't like the ground too soggy, so if you've had a rather wet winter it may have perished.  Having said that, they are late to emerge in my garden, around late April if l recall correctly. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 22,867
    My Agastache, in others varieties are not showing yet, they, and Salvias and Veronica’s are always late shooting here. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,409
    edited March 2019
    Thanks, I'll leave it alone and hope some shoots eventually emerge. It was only planted last year. The soil is pretty well drained so fingers crossed.
  • LynLyn Posts: 22,867
    Don’t give up, give them another month,  my Apricot Sprite and Lavender have nothing on them at all, yet, they will though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,326
    My agastache black adder is only just showing and I’m probably a few weeks ahead, climate-wise. I get so impatient, peering at things and admonishing them for not showing up yet.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,409
    Shoots have appeared! Funny looking little things they are. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 22,867
    My blue fortune seeds that someone on the seed swap gave me have all germinated. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,409
    This year I was more patient (especially with the cold spring we've had) but my Agastache seems to have put up a paltry number of new shoots this year. Think the slugs may have been at it. One of the two decent sized shoots is weirdly fasciated. Think it's time to replace.
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