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Calamint
- Typically has small, delicate, and tubular flowers that can range in color from white to pink or purple.
- Known for its pleasant fragrance, often described as a mix of mint and oregano.
- Blooms spring through Autumn, when it goes dormant.
- Sometimes used for culinary purposes where its leaves and flowers are added to dishes for flavor.
- Calamint is also valued for its potential medicinal properties, such as being used in traditional herbal medicine to aid digestion and treat various ailments.
- Thrives in dry, rock, difficult soils
- Care: come Spring, simply cut back any dry, brown stems and get ready for another flower-filled season!
Catmint
- Catmint, scientifically known as Nepeta cataria, is a species of herbaceous plant in the Lamiaceae family.
- Small, tubular, lavender-blue flowers and a distinctive minty fragrance.
- Grown for its ornamental qualities in gardens. It is valued for its low maintenance and strong ability to attract pollinators like bees.
- Catmint has been used in herbal medicine for its potential calming and sedative effects in humans (research on its medicinal properties is limited).
- Thrives in dry, rock, difficult soils
- Care: come Spring, simply cut back any dry, brown stems and get ready for another flower-filled season!
Calamint was awarded the prestigious 2021 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, so you know it's a great plant. And it grows exceedingly well in Colorado.