Calamintha nepeta ‘Blue Cloud’ seeds – (Blue Cloud Catmint)

Description

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This is a very valuable , seemingly perpetual flowering perennial which is very useful for edging borders. It forms mounds of sweetly scented leaves and bears clouds of dainty blue flowers in short sprays. The plant flowers its heart out through summer and into autumn and is very attractive to bees and butterflies. It makes an excellent container plant. It flowers in the first year from seed, about 5 months after germination.

Sowing advice

Sow spring and early summer late summer and autumn
Sow in trays or pots in moist seed raising mix.
Sow seeds on the surface of seed raising mix and cover very finely with mix. Keep moist but not saturated, at 20 deg. C. Germination will take about 7 – 21 days. Transfer to 8cm pots when large enough to handle and plant out when danger of frost is over.