Pycnanthemum muticum 24/10 Restock and the fuchsia flowers repeat

and the fuchsia flowers repeat in flushes after the main spring show

The cut branches last remarkably well and are prized in floral work

and the tubular flowers are a favorite of ruby-throated hummingbirds

Photos courtesy of Oregon State University

Pycnanthemum muticum 24/10 Restock and the fuchsia flowers repeatIf any native perennial could be said to hum, the honor would go to Pycnanthemum muticum. From mid to late summer the blunt mountain mint gathers a shimmer of broad, silver frosted bracts at the top of every stem, and within them open dense heads of tiny pink to white flowers that draw an almost comic density of life: bees of every kind, wasps, butterflies, skippers, moths, and flies working the nectar from dawn to dusk. In a three year Penn State