Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’

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Like others in the Nepeta genus, ‘Walker’s Low’ offers delicately hairy gray-green leaves with a tangy, fresh fragrance that a friend calls “spicy mint.” Clouds of small purplish blue flowers are carried on 8–9″ spikes for several weeks in midsummer. Plants don’t tend to split in the center as other Nepetas do. A rough shearing (cut stems back by about ⅔) after bloom keeps the plants’ habit neat and will encourage some repeat bloom until frost.

Most Nepetas are thrifty plants that prosper in average, well-drained soils, and the majority offer deliciously fragrant, gray-green foliage and numerous spikes of small flowers, generally in the blue to purple range. They are durable, hardy, and pest free. Like Catnip, the best-known member of the genus, Nepetas may send felines into a frenzy.

For more information on the growing and care of Nepeta, click Growing Guide.