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Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' (Catmint)

Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' (Catmint)

£4.90

Aspect:: Full Sun
Aspect:: Light/Partial Shade
Soil Type:: Well-Drained
Colour:: Blue

Plants available: 33

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Plant Overview

Catmints add a lovely, soft, floppy, gentle touch to cottage gardens. Nepeta gigantea 'Six Hills Giant' has grey-green foliage, which is covered all summer in masses of short spikes of lavender-like flowers which attract lots of bees. Once established, the plant is fairly drought-tolerant. The foliage is very aromatic and, when crushed or bruised, releases a strong lemony scent, hence the popularity of the plant for edging paths. It’s used as a caterpillar food-plant for the pretty mint moth, Pyrausta aurata.

After the first burst of flowers, shear over the growth to get a second crop of leaves and flowers.

Likes a well-drained soil in full sun. Fully hardy unlike some catmints.

Height and spread: 90cm x 60cm

Common name(s): Catmint

Synonyms:

Nepeta × faassenii 'Six Hills Giant'
Nepeta × gigantea 'Six Hills Giant'

All our plants are supplied in 9cm pots unless otherwise specified. Plants in this size pot establish quickly in the garden and often outpace plants in bigger pots planted at the same time. Our potted plants can be planted immediately, unless otherwise noted, or you can leave them in their pots until you are ready to plant.

The majority of our plants are grown outdoors. This means that they follow their natural growth patterns and are ready to plant at any time of the year. If you order the plants in winter, they are likely to be dormant and died back to ground level, ready to shoot again in spring - just like the herbaceous perennials in your own garden. Very occasionally, in winter, we may indicate on the packing slip that a plant needs to be hardened off before planting out. This will be because it has just come out of a polytunnel. If you have any questions about our plants or growing methods, please feel free to drop us an email.

We grow most of what we sell ourselves, in our nursery in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Our prices include VAT at 20%.