How To Use Nepeta In A Sentence
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Penstemons are one of my favorites, nepeta will be new for me this year.
Leaves Of Grass(es)* « Fairegarden
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Its strength is not in creating a spectacle but in adding an extra layer of interest to existing planting, peeking through rounded shrubs and sub-shrubs such as nepeta and rosemary.
Gardens: Alliums
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Strongly scented plants like nepeta, calamintha and perovskia produce volatile oils that increase air density, reducing evaporation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nepeta started blooming yesterday, but the alliums and irises are slower to bloom compared to the planting inside the cottage garden.
Simply (Purple) Sensational « Fairegarden
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More swaying plants, this time penstemon ‘Rondo’, with the blue and white flowers, blue fescue in flower, some sweet williams scattered about, nepeta mussinii, daylily foliage, and the whole scene backed by a wall of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’.
Movement « Fairegarden
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Perhaps there is another blue flowering plant, nepeta? that would give the same effect.
May Bloom Day-This And That « Fairegarden
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There was one particular herb called nepeta which had a taste that was in between marjoram, mint and dill.
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This works extremely well with my geraniums, coreopsis, nepeta, and Campanula carpatica.
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Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint (Nepeta ‘Blue Wonder’), ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine.
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So I had to assume that they would not be particularly happy beside the silvery cats-paw and nepeta.
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Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race; and, on the other hand, to quote an example whose authenticity I can answer for.
Madame Bovary
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Strongly scented plants like nepeta, calamintha and perovskia produce volatile oils that increase air density, reducing evaporation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In front of Karl grows an assortment of penstemons, nepeta, dianthus and another smaller grass, blue fescue, Festuca glauca.
Leaves Of Grass(es)* « Fairegarden
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Strongly scented plants like nepeta, calamintha and perovskia produce volatile oils that increase air density, reducing evaporation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hosta sieboldiana ‘Elegans’, the grey-blue tinge of an agave and the blue flowers of nepeta all work in harmony with the piece.
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They were swarming over my nepeta yesterday–they seem to like purple.
Bee Speed « Fairegarden
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The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora.
Teide National Park, Spain
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Hardy geraniums, nepeta and salvias are classic partners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hosta sieboldiana ‘Elegans’, the grey-blue tinge of an agave and the blue flowers of nepeta all work in harmony with the piece.
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The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora.
Teide National Park, Spain
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Our nepeta is blooming too, funny how fast the flowering catches up from north to south.
Bee Speed « Fairegarden
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You'll notice this on cranesbill geraniums, alchemilla, dicentra, nepeta, thalictrum and tradescantia, among others.
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Next are the ones that are harder to divide (nepeta, rudbeckia, aster).
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
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And so we exist peacefully in the garden, they chasing voles and nibbling the nepeta, I digging holes and nibbling the nasturtiums.
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Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint (Nepeta ‘Blue Wonder’), ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine.
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Aromatic foliage, such as lavender, monarda, nepeta, thyme, yarrow, mint, Russian sage, and artemisia.
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Some nepeta can get untidy after flowering but this one will keep a good winter silhouette.
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This works extremely well with my geraniums, coreopsis, nepeta, and Campanula carpatica.
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Thousands of them, feasting on aconitum, astrantia, geranium, centaurea, elaeagnus, nepeta and lamium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others are tiny and quite dainty - like the many nepetas and campanulas, or Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’.
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I really like the blue fescue with the penstemons, nepeta, and dianthus.
Leaves Of Grass(es)* « Fairegarden
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Thyme and nepeta are allowed to creep into the lawn and there is an abundance of old-fashioned roses.
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We have nepeta that self sows about the garden and it is usually chewed to the nub, which is fine by me.
Cat Adaptation « Fairegarden
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Nepeta, lavender and salvia are the three graces here, doing exactly the right amount of covering up and waving about.
Times, Sunday Times
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More swaying plants, this time penstemon ‘Rondo’, with the blue and white flowers, blue fescue in flower, some sweet williams scattered about, nepeta mussinii, daylily foliage, and the whole scene backed by a wall of feather reed grass, calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’.
Movement « Fairegarden
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I wanted roses under-planted with green and purple froth - alchemilla and nepeta and hardy geraniums.
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