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Nepeta grandiflora Border Ballet - Catnip
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Nepeta grandiflora 'Border Ballet' is a superb garden plant, reliable, with endless flowering, melliferous, aromatic and fragrant. Its spike-shaped flowers are a bright violet-blue colour. Easy to sow, it blooms in the first year. Frugal and hardy, this perennial thrives in the sun, tolerating poor and rocky soils, or well-drained ordinary soils. This Nepeta enlivens wild gardens as well as those inspired by romance or the countryside, in borders, rockeries or pots.
Nepeta grandiflora is a rhizomatous perennial plant native to the Caucasus. It is found anchored in dry, stony and gravelly slopes or among rocks in medium mountain areas, up to the subalpine zone. Like other Nepetas, it is a plant of the mint family, strongly aromatic, containing essential oils responsible for its fragrance. The 'Border Ballet' variety offers flowering that can spread from June to October. It forms a small, spreading bush of about 35-40cm (14-16in) in all directions. The leafy flower stems, 60 to 90cm (24 to 35in) in height, with a quadrangular cross-section, are covered in fuzz. At the top, long spikes appear, with clusters of small bilabiate flowers in a bright violet-blue colour, nestled in dark violet bracts. Rich in nectar, they attract many pollinating insects. The foliage of this plant, more or less evergreen, is composed of very small wrinkled leaves in a dark green colour, rich in essential oils. When crushed, they release aromas of lemon and geranium, or even sweet and spicy notes. The flowering gives way to black or brown, ribbed fruits, which release numerous small seeds. They will easily germinate in light soil.
Nepeta grandiflora 'Border Ballet' belongs to the tribe of catmints. Easy to sow and cultivate, it is so accommodating and generous that it would be a shame not to enjoy it. Of good size, it has a place in all slightly informal gardens. It is essential in dry gardens, rockeries or in pots on terraces or balconies that you don't want to water too much. In sunny positions, it can be planted at the edge of flower beds in many regions, at the foot of roses, with asters and red shrub salvias.
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Sowing:
Sow Nepeta seeds from February to June or from September to October. Sow in pots or in trays filled with moist special seed compost, covering the seeds with a pinch of compost or vermiculite. Keep at a temperature between 15 and 20 °C (59 and 68°F). After sowing, do not exclude light as it promotes germination. Keep the surface of the compost moist but not waterlogged; germination usually takes 7 to 21 days.
When the young plants are sufficiently developed, transplant them into 7.5cm (3in) pots or trays. Gradually acclimatize them to cooler conditions for a few days before placing them, after all risk of frost, spacing them 30cm (12in) apart. Choose a sunny spot with well-draining soil.
Cultivation:
A true all-terrain plant, Nepeta grandiflora grows in sunny areas with light, even poor, limestone and rocky soils. It appreciates moist soils but can adapt to summer drought by reducing its flowering. In heavy soils, dig a hole 3 times larger than the volume of the bucket and mix 1/3 gravel and 1/3 sand with your topsoil to lighten the soil and prevent waterlogging in winter. In the heart of summer, after the first wave of flowering, you can prune the faded inflorescences to a height of 20cm (8in) if necessary, using shears. The plant will become more compact and will bloom again in autumn.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
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The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.