'Cat's Meow' Catmint (Nepeta faassenii)

Meet the “cat’s meow” of your garden—Nepeta 'Cat's Meow'! Unlike other Nepetas with a wild, untamed look, this standout selection maintains a tidy, dense, and rounded shape all season long. Its small, grey-green aromatic leaves are topped with well-branched stems bearing spikes of sky-blue flowers accented with purple calyxes, blooming from early summer into early fall. ‘Cat’s Meow’ offers everything today’s gardeners crave: a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant perennial that stays gorgeous all season long. Perfect for effortless beauty, this plant is sure to be the star of your garden!

• 17-20 inches tall and 24-36 inches wide at maturity

• Hardy in zones 3-8, be sure to check your USDA zone to ensure success

• Plant in full sun (6+ hours daily)

• Space plants 24-36 inches apart for best results

• Produces fragrant, blue-purple flower spikes summer through fall

• Maintains fragrant green foliage spring to frost

• Great for borders, containers, cut flowers, landscapes, mass planting

• Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds while resisting deer and rabbits

• Heat tolerant, drought tolerant, long blooming

Care: Fertilize with Proven Winners® Continuous Release Plant food in spring and midsummer. Shearing the plant back in the springtime will promote more compact growth. In addition, cutting plants back by half after their first bloom tends to stimulate a second bloom cycle.

Shipping Info:

• Enjoy free shipping on orders over $175

• Size at shipping varies by season, plant, and trimming schedules

• Quart perennials are 5-8" tall at shipment

• 0.65 Gallon perennials are 6-12" tall at shipment 

• 1 Gallon perennials are 6-24" tall at shipment

• Perennials shipped Nov-Apr will arrive dormant; perennials shipped Apr-Oct will arrive green or in bloom

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