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A Striking Summer Border Idea with Echinops and Agastache

Perennial Combinations, Plant Combinations, Summer Borders

Garden Ideas, Border ideas, Perennial Planting, Perennial combination, Summer Borders, Globe thistle, Echinops Ritro, Echinops Veitch's Blue, Agastache 'Black Adder', Agastache 'Blue Fortune', Anise Hyssop 'Blue Fortune', Anise Hyssop 'Black Adder'

Awash with colors and shapes, this fabulous perennial planting brilliantly associates the bold, steel blue globe-shaped flowers of Echinops ritro (Globe Thistle) with the vertical purple spires of Anise Hyssop (Agastache). Created by world acclaimed designer, Piet Oudolf, at RHS Wisley Garden, Surrey, this naturalized perennial combination enjoys a long season of interest, is drought tolerant, deer resistant, low maintenance and a real magnet to butterflies and bees!

To create this prairie looking design, amass these plants in bold swathes.

Garden Information

Hardiness 6 - 8
Heat Zones 5 - 11
Climate Zones 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Summer (Early, Mid, Late)
Maintenance Low
Water Needs Low
Soil Type Chalk, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Dried Arrangements, Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Showy
Tolerance Drought, Deer, Rabbit
Attracts Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Landscaping Ideas Beds And Borders
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage, Prairie and Meadow

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Alternative Plants to Consider

Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ (Globe Thistle)
Agastache rugosa f. albiflora ‘Alabaster’ (Korean Mint)
Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ (Giant Hyssop)
Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ (Giant Hyssop)

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Agastache (Hyssop)
Echinops (Globe Thistle)
While every effort has been made to describe these plants accurately, please keep in mind that height, bloom time, and color may differ in various climates. The description of these plants has been written based on numerous outside resources.

Garden Information

Hardiness 6 - 8
Heat Zones 5 - 11
Climate Zones 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Exposure Full Sun
Season of Interest Summer (Early, Mid, Late)
Maintenance Low
Water Needs Low
Soil Type Chalk, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Well-Drained
Characteristics Dried Arrangements, Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Showy
Tolerance Drought, Deer, Rabbit
Attracts Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Landscaping Ideas Beds And Borders
Garden Styles Informal and Cottage, Prairie and Meadow
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Echinops (Globe Thistle) Agastache (Hyssop)
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