Herb gardening for the whole family - pets included!  We grow a lot of herb plants that kitties just love.  The soft, crinkled, gray-green leaves on a compact, mounding plant make Catmint great for containers and the perennial garden! When the stems of Catmint are broken, they release an aroma into the air that will delight your cat, hence the name.  This is a great medicinal plant,  and you can use Catmint is used in teas as a mild sedative.                                                                                              
Spent flowers should be sheared off to promote blooming - cut back by 2/3 in July to promote reblooming in August to end of summer.  Nepeta thrives in hot, sunny and dry locations. It is one of the  best plants to edge or under plant a rose bed. Cut back to the ground at the end of winter.