Re: Nepeta six hills (was garden thugs)

If you want a nice catmint for the front of the border try 'Walkers Low.' 
Plants grow around 10" tall and has a soft lavender blue flower color, plants 
bloom almost all summer into fall.
'Blue Wonder' is another shorter one, growing around 12-15" tall and its make 
a great edging plant too. I like it planted around shrubs.  the flower color 
is a soft blue and it responds well to trimming.

I like Nepeta and back during the days when I collected a lot of diffrent 
plants I tried N. grandiflora this catmint did have large gray blue flowers 
and it blooms all summer-but they are large plants.  My clump grows 3.5 feet 
tall and 6 feet wide. But I still like it.
Nepeta subsessilis has a diffrent appearance than the other species, To me 
the foliage is very appealing and the attractive bright blue flowers are nice 
too.  The first set of plants I tried of this species must have been a 
shorter clone because they grew only around 8-10" tall.  But the form I am 
offering for sale now is already 12-15" tall and we are still a few weeks 
from them blooming.

Catnip or Nepeta cataria is a weed and I find it a very foul smelling plant 
that makes me sick, I just hate the scent on my hands when I have to weed it 
out of the flower beds. Last year someone threw a lot of it with seeds into 
the compost pile and now I have to weed out seedlings out of some of the beds 
we spread the compost on.
The lemon scented form of N. cataria is a nice smelling plant that comes more 
or less true from seed, I do not know if the cats go wild over it But I enjoy 
the scent.


Paul

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