Nepeta
‘Pool Bank’
at Digging Dog

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.” 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 Nepeta x ‘Six Hills Giant’, ‘Pool Bank’s gray-green foliage gives way to tall, branched spires decorated with bluish lavender blossoms, bound by subtly hued mulberry calyxes. The soft look of this Nepeta is effective in midborder drifts with Agastache ‘Apricot Sunrise’.

Blooms July–September.

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

Nepeta Pool Bank (p-0861)
Each $6.50
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