Geography Lessons in the Garden

A good mixed perennial garden can be a trip around the world – or at least across a continent or two. Today’s tour involves a plant whose name sounds deceptively like a land it did NOT come from.

Nepeta kubanica Neptune (‘Bokratune’ PP29556)

Is that a funky way to spell Cuba, land of cigars and Castro? Nyet! The specific epithet refers to “big-leaf catmint’s” ancestral home on the Kuban Peninsula in Southern Russia, on the Black Sea. This particular beauty was bred in Holland.

Here in America, Neptune puts on a long show of cheerful blue flowers on sturdy upright spikes, rising from bushy mounds of blue-green foliage. It tolerates a wide range of soils, handles full sun or part shade, and is suitable for borders or containers.

Height 8 12”. Hardy in Zones 5 – 9.

Great plants come from all over. Keep your passport handy for more “Where In The World?” garden journeys from Emerald Coast Growers – your easy choice!