Hyssop For Honey Bees, Hyssop Agastache, provides nectar for bees from June through October! 

UPDATE: May 2nd of 2023, these plants are showing new green growth even though we're still very cold. Impressive. I am planting at least a hundred new plantings this year with plans to expand. I am very impressed.

I have a small pollinator garden that I planted last year. I did “spring sowing” in milk jugs and transplanted the seedlings into the garden. I had anise hyssop, scarlet sage, bee balm, pineapple sage, blue sage, black eyed Susan’s and coreopsis. I added a butterfly bush and lantana that I purchased. It did great!! Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds all summer long. I will be adding more of these same plants this year, especially the anise hyssop. I planted a row of marigolds and a row of zinnias in my vegetable garden. The pollinators kept me company all summer while working in the garden. I have a spot that I am planting cosmos and cleome this year too. It’s so relaxing to sit, enjoy my cup of coffee and watch the pollinators go from garden to garden. I’m retired, live in the NE Georgia mountains and love working in my gardens.

Thank you,for saving our 🐝, 🦋, hummingbird. I'm going to start too,I already have my seeds but I'm learning how to germinate them 😅

I raise honeybees and have a 10'x20' section with about 30 Anise Hyssop plants and the bees absolutely love this plant!! They cover the plants from May until October. This is, without a doubt, their favorite plant. The bumblebees also go crazy over this plant!

Thank you for a very close up to the bees video. I had bee balm, but I think the Hyssop looks much better. I am going to get some hyssop and goldenrod, . Our Texas July heat, no flowers other than some of my honey suckle, sun flowers, and crape myrtles. Really need to plant more different season flower plants for the bees.

I agree Fred, one of the best ways I have found shopping for Nectar plants is to see which plants have the most bees on them! Thanks for sharing another great video.

I agree to "plant of the year" I plant giant blue hyssop using winter sowing milk jug method and they do really well. I get so many nice size plants in May to plant in the ground, in containers and to give to friends. Thanks for the video.

We started with 12 Agastaches in my backyard and now easily have 5x that because it reseeds everywhere! The pollinators have also exponentially increased and the leaves are really delicious in salads. Quickly becoming my (second 😉) favourite plant. Cheers.

Love the footage you put together Fred. I’m a SloMo addict.

LOVE IT in my tea,,i have a metal acorn for loose teas that i put a dried flower top in,,i also use lemon balm flowers

ill be looking for anis hyssop now....great,our golden rod still going

Ovate False Fiddleleaf is the most attractive flower I’ve seen my bees go for when they’re in bloom on my farm and I have lots of different flowering plants. It grows wild around my pond. I never planted it. I think it prefers boggy areas.

It's really wonderful. Thank you for recording a great video.🐝🌻

Thank you Fred I enjoyed that, some useful information there. I was wondering about some wild flowers out in my field, turns out they look like aster, cool, cool. Ty Fred, have a wonderful day.

Absolutely beautiful video Mr. Dunn. Really loved your footage. And thank you very much for the shout out - I greatly appreciate it! May I ask what camera you were using?

Thank you Fred.

Enjoyed the video and appreciated the information.

Absolutely love this. Thank you

❤️ thank you

Planting Lilyturf around the edge of the yard, bees seem to really enjoy it and I have lots to split. Nice information, just thinking about what to plant. Thanks

Blue Fortune Agastache is the best one to get. The exotic colored agastache are beautiful, but don't stay around for the bees and usually are annuals. Caryopterus is the BEST plant for swarms of bees. You won't make it 6 feet from the car until swarms of pollinators go for the caryopterus. These, and golden rod bring the bees!

Thank you for showing the correct Anise Hyssop! I am noticing alot of mislabeling at nurseries and garden centers. The ones they are calling Anise Hyssop, have light green leaves, matte rather than shiny surface, large rounded teeth on leaf edge and do not smell like anise when the leaf is crushed. Beware people! It could be Korean or A. rugosa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yur2hSIn9q8.html

Hi Fred… always gr8 videography… Qns: Do you have any more interviews planned in near future? Any chance you can interview Cedar Anderson and deep dive into Flow Hives? Also wondering if FH have any thoughts on a 4 Flow Frame super for your 5 over 5 nucs? Any benefit? Cheers… 🍻🍻 mead should be looking/tasting good about now.😊

Fred where do you get your seeds.thanks again f

Hello Frederick 🥰

Start seeds!

I am a beekeeper and I cannot find an Anise Hyssop that my honey bees will go to. Where did you get yours?

Do you have any trees in bloom in your area? All I’m seeing is Vitex and Crepe Myrtles here in Texas. It’s bone dry here and smaller farm ponds are dried up. Mine included. We’re still in the 90s some days.

Thinking about adding this to my field. Any idea of the effect on honey taste?

So when would you plant? Could I plant seed now in tilled ground for next year? Guessing they will come up now, come back next year? St Louis. Thanks

I do have a question I live in Washington state 45 miles from the beaches anyway I have two hives Both are two deeps this year Both had 4 honey supers on themI only Rob one honey supers off both hives This was in August When I got the money out of them I put the boxes back on the hives so that the bees could clean them up. That’s not what they did they fill them both up I just took him again a week ago anyway my question is one of them is Golden honey .The other one black like molasses I’ve never seen that before would that be from blackberries them selves that’s my question

Soon won't be able to see my girls for a few months 🥲

Go to the garden center? Seeds are just too easy.

Do you have Whitetail deer invading your gardens?