Nepeta x ‘Joanna Reed’
at Digging Dog

Nepeta

Catmint

Sometime around May a certain fragrance tells us that it’s time for sunny days and warm weather. It’s Nepeta! Catmint, as it is commonly called, is a free bloomer whose billowy mounds of lavender, pink or white flowers are as opulent as its aromatic foliage.

Supposedly, this herb renders timid people fierce, and the botanist Tournefort tells of a hangman who couldn’t cut the mustard “til he chewed a little catmint root.” Have some Loosestrife around in case things get out of hand.

Cut back in July for an encore in the fall.

Nepeta x ‘Joanna Reed’ 

We recently acquired this distinctive, hard-to-find Nepeta from Stonehouse Nursery in Michigan. A naturally occurring cross between Nepeta sibirica and Nepeta faassenii, ‘Joanna Reed’s upright form boasts vibrantly colored clusters of flowers. Highlighted by pink throats, the iridescent blue-violet blooms garnish handsome gray-green foliage and harmonize with Lobelia tupa.

Blooms late May–September.

Size: 3' high x 2' wide; hardy to zone 5.

Nepeta x ‘Joanna Reed’ (P-1129)
Each $6.75
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Other selections in this genus

• Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’
• Nepeta faassenii ‘Kit Kat’
• Nepeta x faassenii ‘Select Blue’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Dawn to Dusk’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Wild Cat’
• Nepeta ‘Longipes’
• Nepeta nervosa
• Nepeta parnassica
• Nepeta ‘Pool Bank’
• Nepeta ‘Psfike (Little Trudy)™’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Little Titch’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Superba’
• Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’
• Nepeta reichenbachiana
• Nepeta sibirica ‘Souvenir d’ A. Chaudron’
• Nepeta x ‘Six Hills Giant’
• Nepeta ‘Snowflake’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Blue Dreams’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Cool Cat’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Sweet Dreams’
• Nepeta subsessilis ‘Washfield’