Season: Perennial
Zones: 3 - 8
Height: 24 inches
Bloom Season:Early Summer to Late Summer
Environment: Full Sun - Moist, but Well Drained
Catnip brings the good animals into the garden and keeps the pests away! Irresistible to cats and bees, it is a spreading, carefree joy in the bed or border, blooming all summer with fragrant flowers and foliage. There are many gardeners who began growing catnip to please their cats and were so delighted with these plants that they ended up a permanent feature in the garden! Both the soft lavender-blue flowers and the green foliage are aromatic on these plants. Asking only full sun, Catnip grows readily in poor, dry, sandy, or hot soils where little else is successful. It grows readily and returns reliably for years of pleasure.

Start seed indoors near a sunny window 6 weeks before transplanting to the garden after danger of last frost. Or, sow in garden in full sun when frost danger is over and ground is warm. Make shallow furrows and cover seed 1/8" with loose soil. Thin or transplant plants to 20" apart when they are 2 inches tall.

Germinate in 8 - 12 days.
Approximate Seeds Per Ounce: 35,000