Catnip and catmint both belong to the genus Nepeta in the mint family. They both have square stems that are typical features of mint plants. And they each produce spikes of tiny, two-lipped flowers ...

Every now and then when I’m out walking my dog, a whiff of wet dirt mixed with dead leaves and dog feces gives my flagging spirits a boost. This, too, shall pass. By that, I mean winter. Now more than ...

Years ago, my neighbor Tony, gifted me with a lovely herbaceous perrenial, catmint (Nepeta racemose), sometimes called “Walkers Row,” named for an English garden. With gray-green to silver foliage, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

They thought it would draw cats to eat rats lurking around the house or farm. Yet recent evidence proves that cats may not be the only reason catmint is found around the foundations of old European ...

Iridoids are plant secondary metabolites from the group of terpenes. Many plants produce these substances to defend themselves against herbivores or to protect themselves from pathogens, among these ...

Catmint, also known as catnip, is well-known for its intoxicating effect on cats. The odor responsible for the cats' strange behavior is nepetalactone, a volatile iridoid produced by catmint. An ...

Paul Epsom of Greystone Gardens shows us how to give an ol' American crew cut to your catmint plants around the 4th of July... why you ask? It comes back looking tighter and easier to maintain in the ...

Introduced in 1988 in Europe, Walker”s Low catmint has become increasingly popular with each passing year and has been names the 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association. If ...