This is a really specific question so I realize it is a long shot to ask it, but I thought I would try anyway.
I am getting ready to do some landscaping here in our Ohio yard. I have been doing a little homework. I like an English cottage garden look, but I want it heavy on purple, pink, and white. A little yellow can be tucked in here and there. (Yellow makes pink pinker, you know. And pink returns the favor.) I do not want plants that are going to make demands on me. My plants need to tolerate hot, humid summers, resist deer, and give me a decent bloom time. I like them to be a little wild-looking, a little splashy. So anyway, I am working on it. It is getting to be almost time to start digging.
A plant guy suggested Walker's Low Nepeta. It does look like something that will do what I want it to do. It was the 2007 Perennial of the Year. That's usually a good sign. It was not Miss Congeniality. It was the winner.
But here's the problem. This plant with this fancy name is called catmint, too. The guy who told me about it has it in his own yard and really likes it. He swore to me that it does not attract all the neighborhood cats to roll around, feeling groovy in the flowerbeds. (Wait! Wait! I have nothing against cats. I just do not want to do all this work and find that I have created a feline version of Woodstock.)
This plant works in Zones 3-8 so I thought there might be a chance that somebody reading this has it in the yard and can tell me if it attracts cats. Some of the offical looking press on the plant says that it does not. But then I found some other stuff that made me think well, maybe. Does anybody out there have it?
Here's a link that tells you all the other stuff about Walker's Low Nepeta.
http://www.flower-gardening-made-eas...-the-year.html
Thanks.
Boomer