How to Use catmint in a Sentence

catmint

noun

• Two strongly scented plants to avoid are catnip and its cousin catmint.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2024
• Later in the season, bees cover their catmint and wild bergamot.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2022
• To hide the withering foliage after the blooms are gone, plant phlox, iris, or catmint in the garden bed.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2025
• Use these vines, bee balm, and catmint to attract pollinators and fill in your garden.
  — Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 4 Apr. 2026
• Perennials with a long bloom time are catmint, astilbe, and coneflower, among many others.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
• Another great time to prune catmint is in early summer after the initial spring bloom.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
• The strong scent of the leaves of catmint can also repel garden pests, including rabbits and deer.
  — Caitlin Huson, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• Plants such as catmint, basil, marigolds, and lemongrass can also deter mosquitoes.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
• Fast-growing catmint is heat and drought-tolerant once established, too.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 July 2024
• The silvery spicy-sweet foliage and the long-lasting blooms of catmint keep tons of pollinators buzzing for weeks and weeks.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 27 Jan. 2023
• Be careful when planting catmint in full shade, as this may cause legginess or reduce flowering.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
• Catnip, sometimes called catmint, and silver vine are both flowering plants with aromatic leaves that grow in many places around the world.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 June 2022
• Plants that do well by the ocean and stay green in the winter include rhododendron, boxwood, azaleas, hydrangea, and catmint.
  — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Others that produce both flowers and leaves on the same stem — catmint (Nepeta species) for example — work great.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 July 2021
• As fill, colorful catmint (Nepeta) pumps flowers into any gaps.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 8 Mar. 2018
• Each session ends with a tea ceremony, brewed from plants like lilac and catmint Telpner gathers on-site.
  — USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
• With gray-green foliage and aromatic blooms that cover plants on and off from early summer to fall, catmint makes a perfect filler for any style of garden.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 June 2025
• Mönch’ aster, catmint, lavender, rudbeckia, and Salvia chamaedryoides.
  — Thad Orr, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• While catnip rises to three feet tall and catmint reaches two feet, cat thyme is more compact, around a foot tall, and studded with five-inch-long pink flower spikes when in bloom.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
• Catnip and catmint can appeal equally to some felines, while others seem to prefer catnip and will pass by catmint without a second glance.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023
• Cats don’t care much for fruits or vegetables, but Sonnenshein suggests planting catnip or catmint for your feline friends.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Janney suggests pairing roses with catmint, salvia, foxglove, scabiosa, and coneflower.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 26 July 2024
• For example, catmint -- a long bloomer that demands little maintenance -- has both fuzzy foliage and an aroma that deer rarely tolerate.
  — cleveland, 4 June 2020
• Companion plants such as daffodils, salvia, and catmint take advantage of the foliage backdrop created by peonies.
  — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 14 Feb. 2026
• In the landscape Spring blooming perennials like salvia, catmint and herbs including chives, tarragon and mint can easily split open and flop after heavy rains.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
• Plants that benefit from shearing a couple of times during the growing season are thread-leaf coreopsis, common petunias, catmint, and salvia.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
• Some perennials that benefit from pruning include bee balm, Shasta daisies, phlox, coreopsis, and catmint.
  — Macie Stump, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
• Trees naturally shade the eating area, while perennials such as catmint soften the edges of the design, while also attracting pollinators.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 27 Dec. 2022
• These would include catmint, monarda, lavender, perennial salvia, creeping thyme, allium, Russian sage, agastache, and yarrow.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
• On several occasions, Matthews said, Bonnie has smashed catmint bushes outside their home trying to pounce on insects and salamanders.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 29 May 2021