Getting to Know Calamintha Nepeta ‘Montrose White’ - September 2026
I usually will open up Erin the Impatient Gardener's "Garden Stroll" YouTube videos in one tab, move it to my second screen and let it play while I fiddle around with some other stuff in other tabs. On a couple of recent videos in her garden, she pauses and talks about a bunch of specific plants. Many of them, I'm familiar with and some of them I have in my own garden. But, the past few videos, there's been a plant that she talked about (and has in her garden) that is also something that Nat has recently pointed out on one of our neighborhood walks as 'a nice plant'. That plant is Calamintha Nepeta ‘Montrose White’. Here at the 14:44 mark in her August Garden Stroll, she talks about Montrose White and how it is starting to bloom . Late...in August. And, how she interplants it with Sesleria Autumnalis and Alliums. Hmmm...I like those other two? Then, in this week's September Garden Stroll video, she once again, talks up Calamintha 'Mo...