Agastache 'Sangria'
Agastache mexicana 'Sangria'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental, , Tea
Another hot colored, taste of licorice, for cool fruit salads
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Agastache, Mexican Giant

Agastache mexicana
Cold Tolerance: Zone 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 - 4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Tea
edible flowers

Guilt free candy straight from the garden. The ladies helping us could not resist popping pink petals of sweet lemon-mint into their mouths, by the handfuls. Imagine pink confetti over canteloupe or the lemony leaves in your child’s tea - a great start for Mother’s Day or afternoon tea party.
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Agastache, Sunset or Rootbeer Hyssop
Agastache rupestris
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental, , Tea
We first saw this delicate, cool summer beauty in Seattle labeled "Root Beer Plant." This caught our attention, as we have the same common name on a different plant. While not as strongly scented as our "Root Beer Plant" (Piper auritum), it's fragrance lingers all summer from apricot-pink flowers hovering above finely cut gray foliage. Has definite tea possibilities.
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Agastache- Anise Hyssop

Agastache foeniculum
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Early FallMiddle Summer
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Cut Flower, , Ornamental, , Tea
Lavender purple spikes, July through September, are cut fresh for flower arrangements, or dried, while anise flavored leaves & flowers make a nice summer tea. Easily grown hardy perennial, but, reseeds if flowers are not removed quickly, which isn't always bad.
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Angelica
Angelica archangelica
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Sun-P.Shade to Shade Only
Height: 4-6 Feet
Water: Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental
Largest, boldest herb that you can grow in the shade. Need a tropical, 6 foot tall giant for a wet area? Seeds add a sweet, delicate flavor to soups and stews. Stems are easily candied or add several slivers to your favorite rhubarb recipe. Creamy yellow flowers produce long lasting seed heads followed by the death to the mother plant shortly thereafter.
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Angelica, Korean
Angelica gigas
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Sun-P.Shade to Shade
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, Culinary, Ornamental
Unassertive, small leaves scream for this bold, dramatic foliaged neighbor for any shade area. Baseball sized purple clusters on 3' stalks form in 2-3 years, which I suggest you remove during their glory to prevent this herb's demise or the birth of 100 more. Leaf stalks can be candied. This "Dong Quai herb" makes a cozy Chinese tea and is a premiere femal medicinal.
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Arnica
Arnica chamissonis var. foliosa
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Groundcover, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
This North American native is nearly identical in every way to it’s well known cousin Arnica montana, with perky yellow/orange daisy flowers on a 6” spreading groundcover, but it is a lot easier to grow. Used in many homeopathic preparations and tinctures, for external wounds.
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Bee Balm, Blue Stocking
Monarda fistulosa`Blue Stocking'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Butterfly, , Ornamental
Who cares if it is last to flower, 3 to 4 weeks after ‘Gardenview Scarlet.’ It’s dark pink or blue purple blooms are unusually intense, but, do not eat camphor-like flowers! They taste awful to us, but oh how they show off delphiniums!
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Bee Balm, Jacob Cline
Monarda didyma
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Container, , Medicinal, , Ornamental, , Edible Flowers, Ornamental / Medicinal
New for 2008

Improvements in bee balms always include an emphasis on "Powdery Mildew,"a disease that's relatively harmless or at least controllable, but definitely unsightly. Siting "Bee Balms" in part sun but away from a North exposure, where the dew takes hours to dry in the morning, helps. So does choosing this very mildew resistant herb with huge red flowers and vigorous growth.
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Bee Balm, Mahogany
Monarda x media 'Mahogany'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental

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Bee Balm, Marshall Delight
Monarda didyma
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Container, , Medicinal, , Ornamental, , Edible Flowers, Ornamental / Medicinal
New for 2008

You may wonder with all the fuss over mildew resistance, why even choose a "Bee Balm." One look at these rich pink, confetti flowers that just happen to add a sweetness, found in no other herb, and your next Summer fruit salad will seem naked without it. Don't panic that it's also resistent to "Rust." I'm telling you, it's well worth a try.
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Bee Balm, Pink Petite Delight

Monarda X 'Petite Delight'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Spring
Common Uses: Borders, , Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental

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Bee Balm, Purple Improved

Monarda fistulosa `Purple Mildew Resistent'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Spring
Common Uses: Borders, , Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental
Actually a “Bergamot,” the common name for this and other white & pastel colored Monarda fistulosa hybrids. This North American native makes a nice tea by itself or with black tea. First to flower in June, with an O.K. taste, but more mildew resistence than Bee Balms (M. didyma).
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Bee Balm, Raspberry Wine
Monarda didyma
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Container, , Medicinal, , Ornamental, , Edible Flowers, Ornamental / Medicinal
New for 2008

Rich, dark, "Cabernet" colored buds pour open to clear red wine flowers. This dark foliage is also highly resistent to mildew. IF, on the chance you spot that whitish haze in July when the dew is thick and slow to dry off, here's all you need do: Recycle a gallon jug and funnel in 2 T. of "Baking Soda" and 2 T. vegetable oil. Fill it up with water. Shake and spray this all over plant. Repeat every week until mildew is destroyed! Shouldn't take more than 2 applications. foliage. From White Flower Farms
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Bee Balm, Rose-scented
Monarda X 'Rose-Scented'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 1 1/2 to 2 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Culinary, Tea
Pleasantly pink and delicious, rag-top blooms complement subtle, rose scented foliage. Seems to appreciate a little more water than other varieties, so mulch well. A gift from Elaine Kudela and probably from Richters, Canada. "Just the facts" name albeit accurate.
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Butterfly Garden

Butterfly
Make a garden where Monarch and Swallow Tails will canonize you.

angelica,

Butterflyweed \ Pleurisy Root
Asclepias tuberosa
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Butterfly, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
One of the most important plants you can buy to help save the Monarch Butterfly and give yourself a beautiful bright orange hardy perennial simultaneously. The dried powdered roots can be decocted to make a powerful expectorant and when combined with Angelica archangelica was used to treat Pleurisy. Once established, it will not transplant well.
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Calamint, Alpine

Calamintha nepeta var. nepeta
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to P.Shade-P.Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Culinary, , Ornamental
The ideal perennial! Low maintenance,(i.e. no dead heading) with a perfect mound of delicate, sweet tasting, lilac-blue flowers that spoil us from June until after a fall freeze. It's true! Foliage has sweet minty fragrance, but it does not trespass like a mint. Essential as a faerie garden plant.
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Calamint, Snow White

Calamintha nepeta var. nepeta 'Snow White'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Shade to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental
A nearly perfect perennial that flowers June until freeze. It needs zero care to maintain an impeccably round mound of delicate, sweet tasting, pure white flowers. Foliage has a subtle, minty fragrance, but it does not spread invasively. The white version of "Alpine" and an essential faerie garden plant.
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Catmint, Creeping

Nepeta mussini (faassenii)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Common Uses: Bees, , Ornamental
Our #1 recommended hardy perennial to plant under and in between roses. Small white-grey, fine toothed leaves form a 2 feet wide by 12" high PERFECT mound, covered with blue flowers in June and occasionally in the fall. Although stronger and more pleasantly fragrant than common catnip, it doesn't attract any of our neighborhood cats, so it remains untouched. Plant several together in rock gardens, to take advantage of the relaxing, swaying ocean of rare, soft blue color.
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Catmint, Japanese Blue
Nepeta subsessilis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 1/2 x 2 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Borders, , Culinary, , Ornamental
This is Mark's absolute favorite "Catmint" for the long bloom time and deliciously sweet, summer snacking, two inch blue flowers. We have sited a "welcome patch" right by the house entrance precisely for its cheery waves in the wind and good eating, nearly the entire summer.
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Catmint, Japanese Pink
Nepeta subsessilis 'Sweet Dreams'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 1/2 by 2 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Bees, , Borders, , Culinary
Sweet Dreams are made of these - edible, two inch, two toned, pink flowers that you can eat practically all summer long! The "Japanese Catmints" have large, soft green, serrated leaves that look their best with a little afternoon shade or extra water. "Who am I to disagree?
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