One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower and rudbeckia. The savory calamint ...

If your garden has a few awkward empty patches that look like they were left to fend for themselves, calamint (Calamintha mill.) is here to save the day. This fast-growing perennial quietly spreads ...

Dear Master Gardener: A friend mentioned putting in calamint, which she said is a white catmint. It’s confusing — are calamint, catmint and catnip related or are they all different species? Answer: ...

* What it is: Calamint is a mint-family perennial that spreads to make a dense, sun-loving groundcover but not to the over-aggressiveness of relatives like spearmint and pennyroyal, which can take ...

The just-announced perennial plant of the year for 2021 might be blushing. Lesser calamint — aka Calamintha nepeta ssp. nepeta and lesser catmint — is an easy-to-grow garden workhorse that often plays ...

Ashe's calamint, like many of its mint family relatives, is a delightful plant that is also easy to grow. Just give it lots of sun and great drainage and you will get months of lavender flowers every ...