Nepeta Nervosa Blue Carpet
Good in containers for borders and the perennial herb garden.
Nepeta nervosa blue carpet. Fast growing eye catching and heat tolerant nepeta nervosa blue moon catmint is a dwarf compact form of catmint with a low spreading habit and a long blooming season. Milují ji kočky pochází z kašmíru druh blue carpet nazývaný také modrý koberec je bylinka se šedo zelenými aromatickými listy když je rozdrtíte. Nepeta nervosa blue carpet in late spring plants produce 6 8 inch flowering spikes with an abundance of 2 lipped tubular lavender blue flowers over an extended time making this plant a useful addition to the sunny border. Nepeta nervosa blue moon bears dense spikes of purple blue flowers from midsummer to autumn.
Likes sun and good drainage. You ll get masses of bloomspikes the very first year from an early spring sowing. Nepeta nervosa profuse blue blooms on spiky stems. Plant is full sun.
I believe the latin name translates to nerves which is a description of the extremely veined leave structure. Nepeta nervosa blue carpet catmint blue carpet will reach a height of 0 5m and a spread of 0 3m after 2 5 years. Bluest of all catmints. Nepeta nervosa has severely crinkled darkish green grey leaves which are 3 4 inches in length upper leaves are sessile while the lower leaves have short petioles.
Soft crinkled gray green leaves on a short mounding plant. It s extremely attractive to bees and is also the caterpillar foodplant for the pretty mint moth pyrausta aurata. Unlike many perennials blue carpet does not take a year or two to reach maturity and begin blooming. Genus nepeta can be annuals or more commonly perennials with paired usually aromatic leaves and terminal spikes or panicles of 2 lipped tubular flowers details blue carpet is a compact perennial to 40cm tall forming a mound of toothed green to grey green leaves with short dense spikes of blue flowers borne from midsummer into early autumn.
The small crinkly green grey leaves are short growing aromatic and lightly toothed. The ease of an annual with the permanence of a perennial.