Catmint - Nepeta

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Common Name: Blue 'Catmint'
Scientific Name : Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low'

Showy periwinkle blue flower spikes adorn this new spreading cultivar of an old herb garden favorite. Fragrant mounds of gray-green foliage bloom from June through September. Useful for partially shaded beds and borders, requiring little care once established. Excellent for cascading off walls or container edges and as groundcover that grows somewhat drought resistant with time. Consummate flowers of both hummingbirds and butterflies.
This British variety has been selected as the 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year. Plants are mounded and bushy in habit, with small gray-green fragrant leaves. Masses of bright-blue flowers appear on short spikes in early summer, continuing on and off through the fall if the old flowers are regularly removed. Despite the name, this is best in the middle of a border because of it's mid-sized stature. Drought tolerant, once established.

Matures with rapid growth to 10 to 15" tall and at least as wide.      Hardy to Zone 4.     

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