Nepeta faassenii ‘Kit Kat’
at Digging Dog

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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 faassenii ‘Kit Kat’ 

A well-mannered newcomer, ‘Kit Kat’ keeps a compact, low-to-the-ground profile. Pint-sized leaves shape the gray-green clump that projects cool tones especially when small but numerous terminal clusters of lavender-blue flowers unfurl all summer long.

Perfect for diminishing hard edges along paths, steps or in the rockery, this floriferous Nepeta easily melds with Stachys ‘Silky Fleece’ and Scutellaria ‘Smoky Hills’.

Blooms May–mid-October.

Size: 15" high x 15" wide; hardy to zone 5.

Nepeta faassenii ‘Kit Kat’ (P-1388)
Each $6.75
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Other selections in this genus

• Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’
• Nepeta x faassenii ‘Select Blue’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Dawn to Dusk’
• Nepeta grandiflora ‘Wild Cat’
• Nepeta x ‘Joanna Reed’
• 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’