Extend catmint’s growing season and maintain a tidy looking appearance. Catmint is an easy-to-maintain, fast-growing perennial that gardeners love as a border plant for a burst of color, movement, and ...

Catmint is the garden plant equivalent of that friend who always looks good no matter what. It's long-blooming and remarkably hard to kill once established, and it often bounces back well after firm ...

The trick is to prune the entire plant back by about one-third once the first wave of flowers begins to fade. Rather than allowing the spent flower heads to remain on the stems, where the plant will ...

Prune plants with diseases or pests in fall to prevent issues next growing season. Leave plants with seedheads or evergreen foliage for winter interest and wildlife support. Fall pruning reduces ...

It can be tricky to know when to prune which plants. Do it at the wrong time and you run the risk of removing unopened flower buds, thus denuding the plant of its soon-to-be flowers. But pruning is an ...