Nepeta ‘Pool Bank’
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Nepeta

Catmint

Sometime around May a certain fragrance tells us that it’s time for sunny days and warm weather. It’s Nepeta! Catmint, as it is commonly called, is a free bloomer whose billowy mounds of lavender, pink or white flowers are as opulent as its aromatic foliage.

Supposedly, this herb renders timid people fierce, and the botanist Tournefort tells of a hangman who couldn’t cut the mustard “til he chewed a little catmint root.” Make sure you have some Loosestrife around in case things get out of hand.

Cut back in July for an encore in the fall.

Nepeta ‘Pool Bank’ 

An upright Englishman standing taller and with less sprawl than N.x ‘Six Hills Giant’, ‘Pool Bank’s gray-green foliage gives way to tall branched spires decorated with bluish lavender blossoms, each nestled in a dusky mulberry-hued calyx. The tempered look of this Nepeta is effective for midborder drifts with Agastache ‘Firebird’ nearby.

Blooms July–September.

Size: 3' 0" high x 2-1/2' wide; hardy to zone 4.

Nepeta ‘Pool Bank’ (P-0861)
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Other selections in this genus

• Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’
• Nepeta faassenii ‘Kit Kat’
• Nepeta x faassenii ‘Select Blue’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Dawn to Dusk’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Wild Cat’
• Nepeta x ‘Joanna Reed’
• Nepeta ‘Longipes’
• Nepeta nervosa
• Nepeta nuda ssp. albiflora
• Nepeta parnassica
• Nepeta ‘Psfike (Little Trudy)™’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Little Titch’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Superba’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’
• Nepeta reichenbachiana
• Nepeta sibirica ‘Souvenir d’ A. Chaudron’
• Nepeta x ‘Six Hills Giant’
• Nepeta ‘Snowflake’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Blue Dreams’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Cool Cat’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Sweet Dreams’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Washfield’

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