Catmint plug plant – Flowering Herb for Pollinators

A soft and flowering herb for your healing garden

Catmint is a beautiful and easy-to-grow herb, loved for its soft grey-green foliage and long-lasting purple-blue flowers. With its gentle, flowing growth and aromatic leaves, it brings colour, movement, and pollinators into the garden. Hardy and low maintenance, Catmint is perfect for borders, herb gardens, and wildlife-friendly planting.

Why choose The Healing Herb Garden Catmint?

Our Catmint plug plants are carefully grown and selected to establish quickly and thrive in UK gardens. Supplied in a strong 7cm pot, these healthy young plants are ready to plant into borders, herb beds, containers, or natural planting areas.

Our plants are carefully grown and nurtured with patience and care, so they arrive healthy, well-rooted, and ready to settle into your garden.

Catmint (Nepeta species) is a hardy perennial herb known for its long flowering season and soft, aromatic foliage. From late spring through summer, it produces masses of small purple-blue flowers that are highly attractive to bees and other pollinators.

This drought-tolerant herb grows well in full sun and well-drained soil, making it ideal for borders, rock gardens, and container planting.

At The Healing Herb Garden we grow plants with gardeners, herbalists, and nature lovers in mind — helping you create a garden filled with beautiful, useful, and traditional herbs.

Catmint – The Healing Herb Garden

Usually available: Spring – Autumn
Life cycle: Perennial
Height: 30 – 60 cm
Position: Full sun
Soil preference: Well-drained soil

Uses

Herbal
Catmint has been used in traditional herb gardens and is valued as a useful and attractive plant.

Aromatic
The leaves release a light herbal scent when touched or crushed, adding interest to sensory gardens.

Ground cover
Catmint forms a low, spreading mound that works well as ground cover or edging in borders.

Physical characteristics

Height
30 – 60 cm tall

Foliage
Soft grey-green leaves forming a bushy, spreading plant.

Flowers
Small purple-blue flowers appearing from late spring through summer.

Perfect for herb gardens in the UK

Catmint is a wonderful choice if you are looking to grow pollinator-friendly plants in the UK or add long-lasting colour to your garden. Its drought tolerance and easy-growing nature make it perfect for borders, herb beds, containers, and cottage gardens.

Growing herbs like Catmint helps create a vibrant and wildlife-friendly garden filled with colour, scent, and beneficial insects.

Supplied as a healthy young plug plant in a 7cm pot, ready to establish and thrive in your Healing Herb Garden.