A member of the Mint family, Catnip is just as easy to grow but does not, thank goodness, spread quite as enthusiastically! This fragrant, beautiful perennial herb is a joy in any garden, bringing in "good bugs" and helping to keep the pests away!
As its name suggests, Catnip is irresistible to cats, but bees and butterflies also love it, visiting frequently throughout the summer. It is a spreading, carefree joy in the bed or border, blooming all summer with fragrant flowers and foliage. We've known many gardeners who began growing Catmint to please their cats and were so delighted with these plants that they ended up a permanent feature in the garden!
Both the soft lavender-blue flowers and the green foliage are aromatic on these 2-foot-high plants and can be used to make a soothing tea or potpourri. Harvest the leaves as needed or cut away the entire plant in midsummer, drying it upside-down indoors in a warm, dry location.
Best in full sun, Catnip grows readily in poor, dry, sandy, or hot soils where little else is successful. Sow the seeds about ¼-inch deep in the spring soil after all danger of frost. Pinch to make the plant bushier, and snip away flower buds if you want to prolong the harvest of flavorful leaves. Very easy to grow, and long-lived. Be careful about letting this plant go to seed; it will volunteer freely all over the garden! If you want to harvest the seeds, place a bag over the flowerheads as soon as they begin to fade, and collect the seeds that way. Plenty to share with gardening and cat-loving friends! Pkt is 100 seeds.
These plants are used in borders and as edging and groundcover material. Nepeta x faasseni grows 18 inches tall and spreads as wide. The fragrant leaves are light green to gray-green and softly hairy. The lipped flowers are blue and held in loose racemes. Hardy from Zones 4 to 8. Nepeta nervosa grows 2 feet tall and spreads as wide. The fragrant leaves are similar to the above, but with conspicuous veins, and the plants produces lavender-blue flowers in denser racemes
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
A member of the Mint family, Catnip is just as easy to grow but does not, thank goodness, spread quite as enthusiastically! This fragrant, beautiful perennial herb is a joy in any garden, bringing in "good bugs" and helping to keep the pests away!
As its name suggests, Catnip is irresistible to cats, but bees and butterflies also love it, visiting frequently throughout the summer. It is a spreading, carefree joy in the bed or border, blooming all summer with fragrant flowers and foliage. We've known many gardeners who began growing Catmint to please their cats and were so delighted with these plants that they ended up a permanent feature in the garden!
Both the soft lavender-blue flowers and the green foliage are aromatic on these 2-foot-high plants and can be used to make a soothing tea or potpourri. Harvest the leaves as needed or cut away the entire plant in midsummer, drying it upside-down indoors in a warm, dry location.
Best in full sun, Catnip grows readily in poor, dry, sandy, or hot soils where little else is successful. Sow the seeds about ¼-inch deep in the spring soil after all danger of frost. Pinch to make the plant bushier, and snip away flower buds if you want to prolong the harvest of flavorful leaves. Very easy to grow, and long-lived. Be careful about letting this plant go to seed; it will volunteer freely all over the garden! If you want to harvest the seeds, place a bag over the flowerheads as soon as they begin to fade, and collect the seeds that way. Plenty to share with gardening and cat-loving friends! Pkt is 100 seeds.
These plants are used in borders and as edging and groundcover material. Nepeta x faasseni grows 18 inches tall and spreads as wide. The fragrant leaves are light green to gray-green and softly hairy. The lipped flowers are blue and held in loose racemes. Hardy from Zones 4 to 8. Nepeta nervosa grows 2 feet tall and spreads as wide. The fragrant leaves are similar to the above, but with conspicuous veins, and the plants produces lavender-blue flowers in denser racemes
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.