Purple Giant Hyssop Drawing

Purple Giant Hyssop
Agastache scrophulariaefolia

Pink Purple Pale Swish
Purple Giant Hyssop Picture Purple Giant Hyssop Picture

Crowded spikes of pale purple flowers mixed with purple bracts from July through September, leaves large (up to 4.5 " long) & ending just below the flower spikes, spreads well by seed though not aggressively, foliage is mint-like and very fragrant (it’s in the mint family!), plant this where you can touch it and enjoy the scent, attracts butterflies, nice cut flower, does well in average to moist soil, sun to partial shade (flowers are a darker purple in full sun), 2-5' tall.

Zone 4-6

Deer Resistant

Native Range: w. Ontario to Vermont & e. Massachusetts, south to Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, & Kansas. Rare in CT, KY, MD, MA, TN, & VT

Purple Giant Hyssop $5.00


Purple Giant Hyssop (white form)

White Swish
Purple Giant Hyssop (white form) Picture

A less common form of Purple Giant Hyssop with crowded spikes of white flowers & pale green bracts from July through September, leaves large (up to 4.5 " long) & ending just below the flower spikes, spreads well by seed though not aggressively, foliage is mint-like and very fragrant (it’s in the mint family!), plant this where you can touch it and release the scent, attracts butterflies, nice cut flower, does well in average to moist soil, sun to partial shade, 2-5' tall.

Zone 4-6

Deer Resistant

Native Range: w. Ontario to Vermont & e. Massachusetts, south to Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, & Kansas. Rare in CT, KY, MD, MA, TN, & VT.

Purple Giant Hyssop $5.25

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