Easy to grow, catmint provides silvery-green or gray foliage and a long season of blooms that hummingbirds love. The purple flower spikes reach about 2 feet tall and enjoy full sun.

Catmint naturally has a long bloom time and typically flowers from late spring through late summer. But you can get even more catmint flowers by removing your plant’s flowering stems when they ...

Please pollinators with perennials like hyssop, catmint and cape fuschia Newer cultivars of perennials simply bloom longer, quenching our cravings for color and extending the benefit to bees.

If you’re not growing catmint (Nepeta), why not? You can count on summer-long flowers, mostly blues and lavenders. Deer and rabbits shun the aromatic gray-green foliage. The blossoms are sought ...

Many gardeners are working hard to secure colourful summer flowers, and growing one perennial plant could bring pink and blue blooms for weeks.

Many gardeners have discovered that the appeal of catmint isn't restricted to tabbies and calicos. Nepeta varieties offer attractively crinkled leaves that are soft to the touch, forming a 6- to ...

This buff-tailed bumblebee in Nottingham is visiting catmint flowers, sipping nectar and moving pollen from one plant to another. Bees perform this ecosystem service efficiently. Rapid climate ...

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