SylvesterBlue™ Catmint

Long spires of lavender-blue aromatic beauty! The SylvesterBlue™ Catmint (Nepeta x 'G19213') is a fantastic cultivar of the well-known perennial Herb! The crinkly, scalloped darker sage-green leaves are used in teas, as a seasoning, and in fresh and dried floral arrangements!

Butterflies and bees adore the long flowering spikes of speckled, two-tone lavender-blue blooms! They may be tiny but numerous! By late spring to summer, your entire mounded plant is covered in arching, cascading blooms! The fresh blooms and dried foliage can be used in floral bouquets and crafts, potpourri, or sachets and the scent is used to deter pests. the tea is used to soothe a wide variety of tummy troubles, relax the mind, body and spirit, and has been used safely for small children.

SylvesterBlue™ Catmint is easy to care for and very low maintenance. Reliable herbaceous perennials throughout USDA growing zones 4 through 8, and grow to a tidy mounded dome 12-15 inches high and spread 24-30 inches wide! Deadheading as the blooms fade encourages a rebloom that lasts until frost!

Planting and Application:

SylvesterBlue™ Catmints only slightly have the draw that its cousin Catnip has on your feline friends, but it's just as healthful as a medicinal, aromatic, and tea herb when fresh or dried! Great for use in containers around your porch and patio, any sunny environment, a window box, a planter on a balcony, or front porch decorative pot suits these adaptable perennials just fine! Even indoors on a sunny windowsill as a houseplant or gift!

The gorgeous plants are must-haves for a low-growing, mounded, fragrant accent and edging plant throughout the Perennial border, Rock Garden, cottage and herb garden, pollinator and cutting garden, and as lacy fine-textured accents throughout the mixed borders. Hardy, xeric and tough, use these plants en masse, in groupings, or in long winding rows for reliable color and deer-resistant focal points.

• Lavender Blue Spires of Scented Blooms
• Crinkly, Textured & Scalloped Darker Sage-Green Leaves
• Low-Growing Mounded Perennial
• Great Cut Flowers & Great for Pollinators!
• Border Gardens & Edging, Tough Locations, Lacy Accents & Containers

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Catmint is a full-sun herbal plant and does best in very well-drained soil, but isn’t fussy about soil type. Provide regular moisture for young plants while first establishing, but after these are xeric and low-moisture need plants. For best results, provide supplemental moisture during extended periods of drought and in extreme heat and a 3-4 inch layer of arborist mulch chips for moisture retention. Deadhead for more blooms and prune mound back to a few inches in late fall once it has died back from frost.

• Full Sun
• Almost Any Well-Drained Soil
• Moderate to Low Moisture Once Established
• Deadhead for Rebloom & Prune Late Fall After Frost
• Deer & Pest Resistant

SylvesterBlue™ Catmint will be your new favorite aromatic herbal plant with lovely light lavender-blue blooms! Your pollinators and garden beds and containers will become invigorated with this new cultivar available now at NatureHills.com!