but I love my cat mint and so do the honey bees.
It was here when I moved in and I just kind of let it do its thing, within reason. It blooms like three times from May to August and it's beautiful.
I know how awful mint is. I'm currently waging war against peppermint (and losing that battle)..
by Scared_Category6311
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Catmint doesn’t spread as vigorously as mint. You’re fine.
Catmint is relatively easy to curtail growth, not so with the rest of the mint family.
Cat mint is way different than regular mint. Keep it!!
I’ve had catmint for years and it has stayed in 3 neat clumps
I’ve been dividing my catmint and intentionally spreading it around the garden for groundcover because it’s low maintenance and bees love it. The lush look you have going on is my goal!
Nepeta is great, some spread some don’t. Keep it.
Cat mint is not actually related to peppermint (well, not closely that is). It’s only the type of sterile hybrid mints (usually peppermints) that spread like wildfires. However, catmint ALSO has a tendency to pop up everywhere once you have a critical mass of them. Same as Lemon Balm. almost, as if they are all herbs.
I’m so jealous… I have a few different varieties of it that I’m layering to get it to spread.
It doesn’t create runners like other mints. Stays in a clump that gets wider each year.
Lucky you. It’s beautiful.
I have catmint that is decades old that hasn’t spread at all. It plays very nicely in my garden.
I love catmint, you’re lucky
Catmint is great! There’s really no downside.
not bad at all, i love my catmint and so do the bees!! my cats even love to munch on a leaf now and then
I like it
This is wonderful, not bad lol. Very beautiful, enjoy.
Cat mint is wonderful and very containable. I have small “shrubs” of it in my garden for the last 6 years. Bumblebees seem to prefer it to anything else growing, and it’s so pretty! It gets pretty scraggly in the winter but I just give it a buzz cut and then it comes back every spring.
I got catmint for my cats without realizing that it isn’t catnip. Now I have both and the bees and the cats are happy.
I love mint plants. And thus is beautiful 🤩!
It’s beautiful!
But looks pretty 😍
Make mint tea and mint oil and mint mojitos mmm
And it blooms 3x a year?!?! Amazing!
It’s so lovely, I hope you will have cats visiting you soon. 🙂
It’s only bad if it goes where you don’t want it. There was some mint at one of the houses where I lived growing up that got into the yard. It actually made mowing pleasant because of the fresh minty aroma. Had the same situation with some of my bee balm and lemon balm – until my husband hit it with his RoundUp. 😩
I love the smell and look of cat mint and it makes great tea. So I would keep it😁
I’ve got some catmint in my ornamental beds and while the clumps get MONSTROUS and need to be divided at least once a year they have never spread. The bees and hummingbirds LOVE it, and it adds a nice sharp note to my scent garden.
Tbh the violas I planted are way more unruly–they’re popping up in my gravel driveway!
I just pull up what grows where I don’t want it, as it seems easier to pull out than other mints. It does not bother me. Actually fills in a lot of ‘dead’ space in my beds. Takes pruning well, too.
My cat mint after 3 years and a lot of strays making love with her 😅
https://preview.redd.it/8mx91fsqc5zg1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d138d85d8dbf8e77ffb528be09eb422ab902fd05
Yeah I don’t see an issue tbh