Nepeta subsessilis

‘White Dreams’

WHITE DREAMS CATMINT

Nepeta subsessilis ‘White Dreams’

WHITE DREAMS CATMINT

Nepeta subsessilis ‘White Dreams’ is an outstanding Catmint.

Extra large & showy white heads

With exceptionally large and showy white heads.
And a satisfyingly long flowering period too.

Sweetly aromatic insect repelling plant 

Nepeta subsessilis ‘White Dreams’ forms a neat upright mound of aromatic, deep green foliage.
So it makes an excellent underplanting for roses, and a traditional insect repelling companion plant for veggies, orchards as well as roses.
The foliage has a sweet aromatic scent, and is a pleasure to brush as you walk by.

Rabbit & deer resistant but bee & bird friendly

‘White Dreams’ is an easy plant to care for.
As it has virtually no pest or disease enemies, including rabbits and deer.
While our bees and insect pollinators, and even small native honey-eating birds, love foraging amongst the funnel flowers. They find it a reliable food source with its prolonged and repeat flowering.

An unusual shade loving Catmint

‘White Dreams’ grows best in Part Shade (unlike most of it’s grey-foliaged Catmint cousins who bask in the sun).
Though ‘White Dreams’ will take Full Sun in cooler areas.

Perfect groundcover under shrubs & roses

So it is a perfect underplanting to tuck beneath rose bushes or taller flowers and bushes in a garden bed.

Pretty border edge

And makes an excellent border edge because of its neat growth habit, upright growing rather than sprawling.

Quick from seed to flower

‘White Dreams’ is frost hardy and tolerant of a wide range of soil types.
And is quick and easy to raise from seed.
So early seed sowings will produce flowering plants for summer of the same year.

Low maintenance evergreen

Nepeta subsessilis ‘Blue Dreams’ is also a low maintenance plant.
You can dead head by shearing back after the first flowering to encourage faster repeat flowerings if you wish.

Hardy perennial clump.
60cm. High in white flower heads x 45cm. Wide plant with sweetly scented foliage.

SEED SOWING ADVICE: QUICK & EASY

Suitable for beginners & gardening with kids

Sow indoors in punnets at any time, when suitable temperatures can be provided (15-20°C)
OR
Scatter seeds directly in the garden in spring.

Sow indoors for quick & early plants: First sow the seed on the surface of good quality seed raising mix.
Then pat the seed gently to the surface of the mix to ensure good contact.
Then barely cover the seed only very lightly with sieved mix / sand / grit.
Do not cover the seed to a depth more than the diameter of the seed.
because light helps germination.

Now moisten the punnet thoroughly by standing it in a shallow water bath.
And allow the moisture to percolate to the surface of the mix from below.

Then place the moist, sown punnet in a warm, well-lit position (not in direct sun).
Continue to keep moist.

Temperatures of 15-20°C optimum for rapid germination.

Seeds germinate in 7-14 days approx.

Seed Count: 10 seeds per pack approx.
(We always aim to exceed the stated seed count, and give a generous serve).

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