Is my agastache OK?

[Cheerypeabrain]

Hlo...a little problem...maybe not.

Last year I grew a lovely agastache from seed. Golden Jubilee, it's a luscious hardy herbaceous perennial with lime green leaves and columns of lilac coloured flowers.

I was rooting about in the garden today and noticed that the new growth on the agastache is coming up a purply-red colour. The foliage on the juvenile plants last year was lime green. They're deffo the agastache because they have the right fragrance (and I had the foresight to label the plant so I'd know where it was after the folige died back in the autumn)

I know that some growth starts out red...the peony for example, is pushing up reddish buds as it wakes up...but the agastache looks quite peculiar with the v small purply leaves about the base of last years few twiggy bits left in the ground....is it normal? thermal shock ? or is it dead ?

[Tig]

I misread the thread name and thought you had a moustache problem at first Cheery ;D

I have several different types of agastache (not Golden Jubilee though) and they all start to come through looking purplish, a bit like the young leaves on aquilegia and dicentra - so it may be normal for them (I hope so!)

x Tig

[Cheerypeabrain]

Thanks Tig...I don't usually grow perennials...so it's a learning curve.... ;D

my moustache is fine......

[Chuckles]

I bought a pot of Agastache last year, didn't get it planted out so I've been had had a recky, nothing showing I'm afraid so maybe mines a gonna

So glad your tash is ok Cheery and not purplish ;D ;D Sounds like the Agastache is a goer though from what Tig said

[bagpuss]

I haven't the same as yours Cheery but mine do sometimes have slightly different coloured leaves at first, but they still keep coming back year after year/

[Tig]

Cheery I have managed a piccie of my sprouting agastache liquorice blue this morning - if it helps



x Tig