2025 Proven Winners National Landscape Perennial of the Year®
Meet the “cat’s meow” of your garden—Nepeta 'Cat's Meow'! Unlike other Nepetas with a wild, untamed look, this standout selection maintains a tidy, dense, and rounded shape all season long. Its small, grey-green aromatic leaves are topped with well-branched stems bearing spikes of sky-blue flowers accented with purple calyxes, blooming from early summer into early fall. ‘Cat’s Meow’ offers everything today’s gardeners crave: a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant perennial that stays gorgeous all season long. Perfect for effortless beauty, this plant is sure to be the star of your garden!
- 17-20 inches tall and 24-36 inches wide at maturity
- Hardy in zones 3-8, be sure to check your USDA zone to ensure success
- Plant in full sun (6+ hours daily)
- Space plants 24-36 inches apart for best results
- Produces fragrant, blue-purple flower spikes summer through fall
- Maintains fragrant green foliage spring to frost
- Great for borders, containers, cut flower, landscapes, mass planting
- Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, Resists deer and rabbits
- Heat tolerant, drought tolerant, long blooming
Care: Fertilize with Proven Winners Continuous Release Plant food in spring and mid-summer. Shearing the plant back in the springtime will promote more compact growth. In addition, cutting plants back by half after their first bloom tends to stimulate a second bloom cycle.
Shipping Info:
- Enjoy free shipping on orders over $125
- Size at shipping varies by the season and plant
- Quart perennials are 5-8" tall at shipment
- 0.65 Gallon perennials are 6-12" tall at shipment
- 1 Gallon perennials are 6-24" tall at shipment
- Perennials shipped Nov-Apr will arrive dormant; perennials shipped Apr-Oct will arrive green or in bloom
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