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How to Grow Hummingbird Mint from Seed in the Fall
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How to Grow Hummingbird Mint from Seed in the Fall

Popular with gardeners and pollinators, native hummingbird mint makes a colorful and aromatic addition to any garden. With long, tubular flowers that can be found in vibrant shades of red, purple, and peach, hummingbird mint plants are both long-lasting and impactful, allowing the floral show to continue into early spring. ‘autumn.

Sowing hummingbird mint seeds in the fall is, in my experience, a good option that tends to have a high success rate. Direct sowing in your borders will allow seeds to undergo a process called stratification, better understood as a period of cold exposure necessary for germination. Fall sowing in the yard will expose the seeds to the cold temperatures of winter, encouraging the plant to germinate and produce robust growth the following spring.

As a former professional gardener, I have grown all kinds of annuals, perennials, vegetables and salads from seed. Although not always successful, in gardening you often have to take a trial and error approach, learning from what worked and what didn’t. Here I share all my sowing lessons regarding how to grow hummingbird minthelping you get your borders back in pristine condition and full of color next year.

Agastache, hummingbird mint, flowering in a garden with yellow planting behind

(Image credit: Getty Images/Photos by RA Kearton)

How to Grow Hummingbird Mint from Seed in the Fall