Walker's Low Catmint
Nepeta x faassenii ‘Walker's Low’ · a lavender-blue catmint
A Perennial Plant of the Year with aromatic, silvery grey-green leaves and soft lavender-blue flowers from spring into fall, a pollinator magnet that deer leave alone. It thrives in sun and dry, even rocky soil, and unlike most mints it stays where you put it. In hot, humid summers it likes some afternoon shade.
- Mature size
- 2.5 × 2.5 ft
- 0.8 × 0.7 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
- Blooms
- May–Sep
Walker's Low Catmint at its mature size
A mature Walker's Low Catmint grows 2 to 3 feet tall and 1.5 to 3 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, Walters Gardens.
Through the year
What Walker's Low Catmint looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Dec–Mar
Dies back to the ground; draw nothing but keep it selectable.
New growth · Apr
Low tuft of new gray-green leaves.
In leaf · May–Sep
Billowing mound of gray-green leaves under lavender-blue flower sprays.
Dormant · Oct–Nov
Leaves browning, flower stems cut back.
Photos
Growing Walker's Low Catmint
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Drought tolerant, deer resistant, pollinators, fragrant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Walker's Low Catmint, that’s about 2.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Walker's Low Catmint in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other catmints
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Walker's Low CatmintAll drawn to the same scale.