Description
Finally, a hummingbird mint compact enough for patio containers, yet boasting all the color and scent of its full-sized cousins. Less than a foot high, this beautiful perennial is bursting with bicolor blooms and licorice-scented foliage..Arizona Sunset is a pollinator magnet, bringing in butterflies and bees as well as the hummingbirds that give this perennial its common name. They begin as soon as the first flowers open in midsummer—softly colored, tubular, and boasting lavender shades with pops of peach..The blooms last into fall in most climates, and it's hard to mourn them when they pass, because the foliage has a strong, evocative licorice-mint scent that's just heavenly on a warm summer day..Reaching just 8 to 10 inches high and wide, this hyssop is small enough for containers, and makes an excellent companion to unscented plants of all kinds..Start the seeds indoors, transplant when the spring soil warms up, and it will even bloom for you the first year. Arizona Sunset loves heat, needs good soil drainage, and doesn't mind wet, cold, or even drought.
