Design

Perhaps writing about plants is helping me become a better record-keeper! I love playing around with plants and seeds, but it is frustrating to have something flourish, only to forget exactly what it was. Usually, it doesn't matter very much -- there's more than a little 'flexibility' even in propagated cultivars and labeled seeds, but if I want more Nepeta 'Walker's Low' but get 'Six Hills Giant' instead, then it does make a difference. The lovely apricot-colored Agastache that I planted last year is most likely A. aurantiaca 'Apricot Sprite' (thanks, CEN, for reminding me). I bought it as a plant (a bit surprisingly) at the garden center of a local big box store. I'd been reading about interesting Agastache species native to our Desert Southwest last summer, and wondering if some of them would flourish here (being tolerant to drought), and picked it up when I saw it on the table. In any case, pondering about this encouraged me ...