The Catnip, 'Nepeta cataria', is a plant that will allow you to enjoy a cup of catnip tea while watching your cats frolic in a patch of this fragrant, attractive plant. The tea is very pleasant and has a lemon-mint flavor and fragrance. Along with fresh catnip planted in pots indoors, fresh catnip toys will provide your cats with hours of fun. The tubular flowers are 1/4 to 1/2 inches wide and are massed on spikes. Catnip is used for very informal perennial beds, dried for cat toys, or tea.
