Walker's Low Catmint

Walker's Low is one of those perennials we recommend constantly because it just works. It forms a soft, billowing mound of gray-green foliage topped with a long-lasting haze of lavender-blue flowers from late spring into summer, and a quick shearing after the first flush brings on a second. It's genuinely hardy here, drought-tolerant once established, and largely ignored by deer and rabbits — while bees and butterflies can't get enough of it. Give it full sun and well-drained soil and it asks for almost nothing in return.