Nepeta, Giant Catmint 'Dawn to Dusk'

This is one of my favorite plants. I use it as a specimen, as an edger, and as an accompaniment to roses. It does seed, and that is how i...Read Moret spreads. I used it's seeding tendency to move it all around my yard. The color is lovely, and unlike some of the other pink nepetas it does not die out during the winter. Deadheading will reduce the seeding, but the seeding is something I love. From three plants, I now have about 20 in my yard. It goes with everything.

A great alternative to the boring blue nepetas everyone has. Which, by the way, seed like crazy.

In no time this plant can cover a large area, reseeding itself aplenty. Keep this in mind and give it plenty of room. It makes a great fi...Read Moreller and it covers itself with long racemes of pale pink blossoms with smoky rose calyxes. I moved mine in a sunny and not so fertile ground, it is looking better there, less greens and just as many flowers.

I find the foliage coarse, and the flowers unremarkable. The cats LOVE this plant in winter once it's frost-killed, though, and happily ...Read Morepounce on the dead foliage for hours on end.

Native to Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Naturalized in many parts of Europe.