Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’
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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 ‘Blue Dragon’ 

Big, bright blue-violet tubular blooms with an extended white freckled lower lip and smoky purple calyxes bedeck showy 6 in. floral spires. Inheriting the vigor of its yunnanensis parent, yet maintaining a neat compact habit, branched upright stems emerge from underground stolons and sprout attractive notched grayish green leaves.

Barely fazed by heat, humidity and sporadic dry periods, ‘Blue Dragon’s long blooming flowers make a spectacular addition to a summer bouquet. (PPAF)

Blooms June – mid-September.

Size: 2-1/2'–3' high x 2-1/2' wide; hardy to zone 6.

Nepeta ‘Blue Dragon’ (P-1579)
Each $7.25
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Other selections in this genus

• Nepeta faassenii ‘Kit Kat’
• 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’