Herb to Know: Anise Hyssop - The Easy Grow Herb
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August/September 2003
By The Herb Companion staff
This plant is easy to care for. It will thrive in full sun in well-drained garden soil — good news for the dry-land gardener.
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If you know where wild plants of this species grow, you can gather seed from them; otherwise, you can order seeds or plants from the sources listed below. If you’ve grown anise hyssop for years and would like to try something new, Thompson & Morgan offers seeds of ‘Fragrant Delight’ agastache hybrids. Their catalog describes it as “Wonderfully fragrant foliage and each flower color, blue, yellow, red, pink and white has a separate fragrance from peppermint to spearmint and one distinctly aniseed or liquorice.
Sources
• Veseys, P.O. Box 9000, Charlottetown, PE Canada C1A 8K6; (800) 363-7333; www.veseys.com.
• Blossom Farm, 34515 Capel Rd., Columbia Station, OH 44028; www.blossomfarm.com.
• DeGiorgi Seed Company, 6011 N. St., Omaha, NE 68117; (402) 731-1132; www.degiorgiseed.com.
• Kitchen Garden Seeds, 23 Tulip Dr., Bantam, CT 06750; (860) 567-6086; www.kitchengardenseeds.com.
• Thompson & Morgan Seedsmen Inc., P.O. Box 1308, Jackson, NJ 08527; (800) 274-7333; www.thompsonmorgan.com/seeds/us/.
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