What's going on everyone today? We are talking about cat mint on the epic gardening podcast. My name is Kevin

So there are over 250 species of cat mint also known as Nepeda, in Europe and Asia.

So there's far too many to talk about on a podcast, on a website, anywhere.

But there are a lot of interesting varieties that you should consider both if you have a cat and you want to grow your own catman or cat nip.

And if you want to do some ornamental growing, because some of these are actually quite beautiful.

So quickly I'm going to run through a few varieties you might enjoy and then we'll talk about

cat mint and your cat.

So first we've got Nepito Rassimosa, Walker's Low, this is one of the most popular ones.

It has absolutely beautiful lavender blue flowers that just blank at the entire plant and can grow to be about 40

inches tall by 40 inches wide and it'll grow all throughout spring into the end of

summer. So all of these all of these

the newpedo rassamosa plants have a grayish green foliage and then they have

a purplish-blueish type of lavender color on the flower.

So there's a few more, there's one dawn to dusk, it's called Napita, Grandiflora, Dawn to dusk.

This one's really interesting.

The flowers are pale pink, and it'll get up to about

three and a half feet high, a bit shorter of a growing season just mid-June through late August in most places.

And then the foliage, instead of being that light gray gray green it's actually a darker sage green so it's a pretty neat variety

So I'm gonna get into what is the difference between cat mint and cat nip so far I've kind of been using these terms interchangeably and that's

because actually they are both common names for the Nepeda species. But is

there actually a difference between these two or are they just synonyms you can just use

them interchangeably well nepeida catarria also known as common catnip catnip is the one we all refer to as catnip.

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