Tall Tails Catmint - Bare Root Plant

Name: Tall Tails Catmint - Bare Root Plant
Brand: Great Lakes Lavender Farm
SKU: GLLF-PER-180E5202-BR
Price: 13.15 USD
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Live plants are pickup only June 1–September 30. Plugs and potted plants cannot use our shipping path to AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, UT, or WA; pickup may remain available. Soil-free bare root plants may ship to those states during March 1–May 31 when all remaining rules pass. Montana plug and potted-plant arrivals must be October 1–May 31.

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Bare root arrives dormant

Expect new growth in about 6 weeks after planting. Until then it can look lifeless, so you won’t be able to tell within 24 hours of arrival whether it will grow.

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About the Product

Tall Tails is a large catmint that brings height and structure to a sunny planting, reaching 28 to 32 inches tall and about 3 feet wide. Its upright framework is noticeably stiffer than older tall catmints, so it holds its shape better.

Soft lilac-blue flowers open early in the season and continue for a long stretch, giving pollinators an early source of nectar. It is drought tolerant, easy to grow and deer and rabbit resistant, and it works well filling the middle of a border or anchoring a mass planting.

What it looks like

Long, upright spikes of small, tubular, two-lipped flowers in soft lilac-blue rise from sturdy, branching stems, held in dusky purple calyxes. The leaves are small, oval to heart-shaped, gray-green and scalloped. The plant forms a large, upright-rounded clump about 28 to 32 inches tall and 36 to 40 inches wide with stems that stay fairly rigid. At peak bloom the tall spikes create a broad, soft blue-violet cloud.

Growing it with lavender

Catmint is one of lavender's best partners: it wants the same full sun and lean, well-drained soil, and its soft blue-violet haze blooms alongside lavender and keeps going after the lavender harvest.

Care

Plant in full sun in lean to average, well-drained soil; once established it handles dry spells with little extra water. Hardy in zones 3-8. Shear the plant back by about a third after the first big flush of bloom to tidy it and push a fresh round of flowers.

At a glance

Botanical name: Nepeta × faassenii
Flower color: Soft lavender-blue
Foliage: Gray-green
Growth habit: Large, upright-rounded clump
Mature size: 28–32 in tall × 36–40 in wide
USDA hardiness zones: 3–8
Light: full sun
Bloom start: Early-June
Peak bloom: Mid-June
Bloom pattern: Long Blooming
Deer resistance: Resistant
Pollinator value: Excellent

Sizes and shipping

Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly.

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Mature height: 32.0 in
Mature spread: 40.0 in
Bloom: Early-June – peak Mid-June
Fragrance: Strong
Deer: Resistant

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How to grow Tall Tails

Catmint · Nepeta × faassenii

Catmint is a tough, long-blooming perennial for full sun and well-drained soil. It shrugs off drought, heat and poor soil, and a midsummer shearing brings a second wave of blue flowers.

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Full sunLight
Low waterFast drainage
pH 6.0–8.0Soil
Zones 3a–8bHardiness
32″ tall40″ wide
ResistantDeer · rabbits resistant
Mildly toxicPets

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Hardy in zones 3a–8b

Spring or early fall.

Dormant bare-root catmint as it arrives, laid on burlap

When it arrives

Your bare-root plant

Arrives as a dormant crown with fibrous roots and short stem stubs. Soak 30–60 minutes, plant with the crown at soil level and roots spread, then water once. Keep just moist until new leaves show.

Expect new growth in about 6 weeks after planting. Bare root ships March–May while dormant, with little or no top growth, and it can look lifeless until then. That’s normal. Small, gray-green leaves sprout from the crown in early to mid-spring. Old stems stay brown; look for new growth at the base.

You won’t be able to tell within 24 hours of arrival whether a dormant plant will grow.