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BOTANICAL NAME HEIGHT SPACING COLOR SEASON LIGHT HABIT

Nepeta CATMINT Fine long-blooming, foreground border or edging plant. Be sure drainage is good. Trim clumps back after flowering to encourage repeat bloom and tidy foliage. An aromatic plant with small gray green, wooly leaves. Works well as a foil amidst other plants. Tolerates drought. In flower it produces a color cloud about the foliage.

Nepeta faassenii (mussinii)
1 ft. 12 - 18 in. lavender blue spring-sum. Su clump
Nepata subsessillis 'Cool Cat'
30 in. 12 - 18 in. lavender blue summer Su clump
Nepeta faassenii 'Dropmore'
12 - 15 in. 12 - 18 in. deep lavender summer Su clump
Nepeta faassenii 'Six Hills Giant'
3 ft. 18 - 24 in. lavender summer Su clump
Nepeta faassenii 'Walker's Low'
2 ft. 18 - 24 in. bluish purple spring - aut. Su clump
Nepeta racemosa 'Little Titch'
8 - 10 in. 12 - 18 in. lavender blue may - sept. Su low spreading
Nepeta sibirica 'Souvenir d'Andre Chaudron'
2 - 3 ft. 2 ft. lavender blue summer Su clump
Nepeta subsessilis
2 - 3 ft. 2 ft. lavender to blue aug.-sept. Su clump
Nepeta subsessilis 'Pink Dreams'
2 - 3 ft. 2 ft. light pink july - sept. Su-pSh clump
Nepeta 'Joanna Reed'
3 ft. 18 - 24 in. dark violet summer Su clump

Nipponanthemum nipponicum (Chrysanthemum nipponicum) MONTAUK DAISY A rounded shrubby plant producing somewhat succulent, leathery dark green leaves. A very late blooming daisy tolerant of sea side conditions. Cut back hard in early spring. Pinching too late for bushiness will consequently delay bloom thereby risking damage from an early autumn frost.

Nipponanthemum nipponicum
3 - 4 ft. 2 - 3 ft. white daises e. fall Su clump

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