Planting Powerhouse Perennials: 4 Varieties of Nepeta & 1 Coreopsis! 💪🌸🌿 // Garden Answer 

This is my favorite poem by Emerson and I think you’ve definitely succeeded! ❤️ To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, To find the best in others, To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, A garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I love your videos so much. It is the highlight of my day. When do you think you will start working around the “Hartley”? Please don’t keep us waiting much longer. You and Aaron are amazing. Thank you for bringing us along!

Heading outside super early to beat the 97 degree heat, but had to watch Laura for my morning inspiration! Only a couple of pots to plant, but I better get to it. Have a great day, GA peeps!

Perfect timing, my Cat's Meow and Cat's Pajama are wanting a deadheading and you showed me how, Thanks for all your information. Have a great day.

It's 7:00 a.m.. Let's see what Laura is up to today. Ohhhhhhh soooooooo Pretty!!! Always beautiful plants! Thanks so much for sharing. xo

Good Morning everyone🌸🌸

Good morning. Love the Nepeta. The south garden is looking great! I hope you'll do another garden tour once everything is in bloom. So exciting. So many beautiful things. Enjoy your day.

It brings happy tears to my eyes when I see what a special connection you have with Benjamin. You will be so thankful for the time you spent with him when he was young. 🌷🌻💕

Good Morning! Sipping coffee watching our girl work hard, so appreciative of what I’ve learned on this channel! Have to get ready for our grand daughters kindergarten graduation! Have a Fabulous day peeps!

Before long Benjamin is gonna grab that auger and go to town. Just love it when he shows up in the videos.

My day starts with your videos and love them all. Today, I want to give a shout out to the editing crew. Bravo!!! You do a brilliant job!

My wife watches you every morning with her Ironbean Coffee! So, I watch with her, then order the flowers she loves from Proven Winners. This sure adds to the motto, "Happy wife, happy life." And for good measure...Hartley, Harley, Hartley! We love you guys!

Your gardens are sooooooooooo coming along in a beautiful way. I start every day with Garden Answer. Thank You

I have been watching your channel for years and appreciate all of the garden tours. Many thanks for including viewers as even small changes are made to your beautiful garden. You have exposed me to plants, gardening solutions, ideas, and trees that may never have appeared on my radar. You are a gardener’s treasure!!

Love that bicycle focal point leading to the nepeta haha. Very realistic.

I just found some 3 qt. PW Cat's Meow Nepeta for $3 on the "Discount Rack" at the local big box store. It doesn't look nearly as nice as yours, but with a little care and attention, it should bounce right back. I would never have known to even look for it! Thanks!

Good morning! Will you please do a video with Aaron about what he’s treating the arborvitaes with to get them to hedge and grow so quickly?

Just love watching all these gardens come together. Such beautiful perennials and trees. So much colour, texture and structure. Absolutely stunning. Fills me with joy!!

Laura the south garden is coming along so beautifully! I can't wait to see all the trees, bushes and flowers grow and fill up the space! Much love to all of you from Greece!

Good morning! 🌻🐝

That rosy colored coreopsis is gorgeous. I’m gonna have to have some!

Favorite part of my day!!! It’s coming along Laura!! I’m a few years your space will be unrecognizable ❤️🌸🌺🌼Ita amazing the difference already. Annnndddd Benjamin in his sunglasses ❤️🥰he is adorable!! I would love to see the drone footage of before and after the new garden in full bloom. Hint hint Aaron😜

Good morning Laura. I noticed your supervisor was looking so cool with his sunglasses this morning. 😎 hugs from N.C..❤️

Good morning, Laura ☕️ All is looking so well 😍 I cannot believe the height on that Delphinium 😳🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻 That sky definitely looks ominous for sure. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈

Laura it has been good seeing you in blue. Blue looks good on you and highlights your gorgeous eyes. The Nepeta has really pretty color and I like it is a lower height.

Meanwhile down here in East Texas, we are used to getting so much rain this time of year, but it's dry! Enjoy the moisture! 🌬️🌧️🌧️🌧️

Seeing your little fallen rose petals reminded me of when I was young & my auntie got us to put them in water bottles to make our own perfume 😆🥀🌹 great memories xx

So many new plantings! We need another garden tour. Looking forward to the Hartley planting as well. Your videos are the highlight of my day….thank you.

Cannot wait to be able to get Shades of Rose Coreopsis! Laura, watching you enjoy planting and with that beautiful music --- you are in your element.

Did you say catMINT vs. catNIP? All these years I've heard you say "cats pajamas" and I thought it was catnip you were talking about!!! Laura - I have learned so much from you and I love starting my day with your videos each day. Thank you for all you do

Love when the kids make a cameo appearance 😍 I love Little Trudy Nepeta too!

I didn't realize there were so many different types of Napeta. Exciting to look for these and add them to my garden. Everything is looking so beautiful and colorful. This weather is so different this year. Ya'll are having the rain and cooler temps and we in the south are having record heat and humidity 😬

It is fit to be named A BOTANICAL GARDEN !! Give us a Drone tour when you are done? You are beyond amazing 👏💖

I love Nepeta. I have planted many different varieties now - all thanks to you Laura! X

Goooood morning! Getting a ready for work in WA, 4am with coffee and garden answer 😊❤

It all looks so lovely, I save your video's to watch as a "pick-me-up after reading the news. You bring joy to those that watch, thank you.

I did a small lamp post garden where I included three bushes of Nepeta. My oldest cat loved it when I would shear it back because he'd lay in the clippings like they were catnip. So, now anytime I start a new full sun garden Nepeta has to be included. I have two Walkers Low juniors planted around my roses with more planned for another garden. In our area Monrovia is more prevalent than Proven Winners is but hopefully I will be able to find some of these varieties.

I needed this video today. The music you chose was so soothing. It is rare that I get to relax and drink my coffee before the kiddos get up for the day, but on those rare occasions I almost always watch your videos. I found a variety of nepeta last year called “Little Trudy” catmint. It bloomed from April to October and I didn’t have to shear it back at all. The blooms stayed bright purple all season. It even survived a late spring snow storm in May, blooms and all.

Well thanks to you Laura I’m going crazy buying more and more plants that I recognize from your videos! So many new ones, my goodness!!! You are so inspiring!!! Yes, my new garden is filling up nicely- I have three sections veg’s in one, flowers sunny and shady in other two! Next year I want strawberries! Loving this years spring-summer!!!

Your photography and the editing are outstanding! Thank you for another morning dose of beauty, love, kindness, and kids. 🥰

Look at that sweet little head poking through the flowers he is the most beautiful flower in the garden, oh how I miss my babies that were that age they have all grown up now and when I see a little boy it brings tears to my eye,the flowers are so pretty I bough some just like yours because they are so beautiful,thanks for sharing your family sometimes I wonder what is Benjamin thinking when he sees all the beautiful his mom and day have made for him to enjoy he must just love it.hugs from NC

You were my inspiration for my first flower pots. They give me lots of joy,can't wait to upload their update when in full bloom 💜

Perfect timing! I planted some Cat's Pajamas and Cat's Meow this year. I'll have to keep an eye on them to determine the best time to cut them back.

Am I the only one feels that the day is not completed if I don't get to watch her videos every morning!! It's funny how something can just grow into our lives and Laura just has this magic power to bring sunshine and the positives to start my day, and that's my first thing to do in the morning to watch her videos. I've been following her about 4 years, and absolutely appreciating her so much since day one. When others say that she needs viewers for her channel as a RU-vidr, I disagree that I need her more than she needs me. 🥰🥰

It's all starting to look very much like Laura's signature stamp garden....love it. Chuckle at the way you're so thrilled with all the rain you're getting, must feel weird but a blessing nonetheless. This garden is going to be "absolutely splendid" as my late mom would always say to a beautifully colourful but cohesive garden. What a joy to watch it unfold.

We garden in zone 9A in the Pacific Northwest, and I am SO sick of the rain. It has beat my Hydrangeas to pieces and turned my petunias to mush. No actual warm weather here yet. I used to live in Eastern Washington, and it is similar to where you live pretty much. I miss those summers, but no the winters . Love your channel and look forward to watching every morning before I start my day. Thanks for the inspiration!

I didn’t know nepeta had such a long bloom time. Thank you for that information. I will be sure to get some.

Your such a great mom, I love to see Benjamin hanging out with you in the garden, can’t wait until Samantha is big enough to do it as well.

Mr Cool he's getting so big! So fun to watch your family grow.

The plants you are able to acquire are beautiful and huge. All I see if any are in the very small containers. The daylilies you planted looked like they were on steroids! Beautiful! ❤

Nepeta is one of the first plants I ever bought for my garden and continues to be one of my favorites. Watching the happy bees and hummingbirds enjoy it brings me so much joy and really motivated me to continue growing and expanding my garden. I’ve learned so much from you along the way. Thank you so much for all you do and share with us!

Hi Laura, what a pleasure to watch you in your garden, its really starting to take shape ,it looks as all those lovely colourful perennials are making such a difference bringing colour,form and the borders along the grass paths are really filling in, looking so much fuller . I can imagine them in a few years time. Would you give garden tours in the future ? perhaps a english tea room. Wouldn't it be fun for you to have a english tea or cocktail in the Hartley. You are doing such a great job helping in the community and sharing your garden with us all.It is really appreciated.It seems you have enough space to keep you busy and us entertained for the near future, added to that the times you share with your family on camera are lovely to see.I love the video of Samantha Grace at Christmas trying to keep up with your cat and recent introduction to her shoe collection that matches her Mamma's. 😀 she's a real cutie.Have a great summer,keep cool , happy gardening and thankyou from our family who watch everyday in Lincolnshire England.

Thank you for explaining how you create your gardens. Everyday I learn something new and begin the day with beauty and thoughtfulness. Appreciative of you and Aaron.

Thanks Laura for talking so much about the cats pajamas Nepeta I really think it’s beautiful and I like you I’m looking for something that’s going to give color throughout the season not a lot of work to it but gives that beauty and I love the fact that it call’s the honeybees I love your podcast and your family is beautiful my goodness your son is growing up so quickly lol lol lol and such a big helper God bless you all♥️💙🙏🏻

Your garden looks so beautiful you guys, really coming along nicely. Thanks so much for showing us pruning ‘close ups’ Laura, they are really helpful. I don’t know what it is, but unless I actually see how pruning is done - rather than just read how to do it - I set off to prune something and it is never quite as simple as I think it is going to be. So thanks 🙏 again.

Thank you SO MUCH for the much better on the ear music today. Enjoyed. Love when I don’t have to fast forward, mute, or skip out early. ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

The chicken coop area is so cute! I love that you have a raised bed in there for them.

I haven’t ever tried these perennials. The look pretty fool proof. Everything is coming together nicely for you and I can’t wait to see whatever’s next!!!💚💚💚

I just love how beautiful everything looks.

It is sooooo sweet seeing Benjamin get involved. Life just doesn't get anymore perfect.

Beautiful as always. I think we all strive to have our gardens be as beautiful as yours so thank you for the inspiration ❤️

The west side garden is one of my absolute favorites on your property!

Love seeing all the new perennials! I try to look for them each time you introduce them to us. I love how your new garden is coming together 🌱🌸

I don’t have nepeta, but my daughter just received 30 of them (cats pajamas) to put around the pool in her back yard. I’m excited for her! She did have coreopsis but they got too big, so we dug them out and transported them to my house where they are now residing on a sunny hillside, I’m praying they make it! However, I am going to take your advice and get some nepeta for my garden…just have to find a home for it!

Soooo jealous of your cool weather! Record highs of 96 & 97 degrees and humid this week in south Louisiana. 🥵

👋🌞Good morning Laura! All of your selections in this video are STUNNERS! Thank you for the reminders of where you have planted other varieties and sacrificing some cats pj's to show us how to shear back the plants! 😮🥴😊 👋Good morning Benjamin! What a big strong💪💪helper you are to Mama! Laura, just a ☆☆SAFETY ALERT☆☆, when you hear thunder, you truly need to get inside the house. Lightening travels underground for great distances and can harm or kill you. PLEASE don't put yourself in DANGER to show us where stuff was planted, until the storms have passed. You can always pick the video back up another time.... The gardens just get more and more magical, every time you tour us through them!!!🤗🤗🤩🤩🤩 I have MAJOR GARDEN ENVY. 😍🥰🤩😎 Have a Blessed and Beautiful day everyone! Kimberley F in Avondale, AZ (Zone 9b) 🌞🌵💞

I’d never heard of Nepeta until last year when you planted some by the chicken coop. My local nursery (here in Texas zone 8b) had a few “cat’s pajamas” on clearance last fall and I bought all five. They are doing so well and the bees love them! The timing of this video is perfect because now I know how to give them a proper trim in a few days. 🌿🍃🌙🌾

I am a big fan of Cat's Pajamas. I planted them last year in a new bed I made. They got way less sun than I thought they would and got a deluge of water off the shed roof whenever it rained that I had not considered. They looked, small, yellow and sickly all year. I thought for sure they were dead, but they came back like champs this year. I dug them up to relocate them and they had a ton of new root growth and are doing great!

Today's video was one of your best. I always enjoy sharing your garden, but today's video was also a good teachable moment, as many of your recent videos have been. I learned so much about what and how to plant where, color schemes to think about, making good choices with perennials to get the best "bang for my buck." You make us all feel empowered, you give us confidence to try new things, and you help us realize the plants we choose may have a life of their own. Best of all, you impart all of this, not as the skilled teacher you are, but as a friend.

Your garden is developing beautifully, and you are a joy to watch. Thank you

Good morning! Beautiful plants. I really love the color of the Coreopsis. It is so, so pretty.

Things are looking beautiful. Get inside before the storm hits. Love to you and your family.

I’m so glad you showed how to prune the cats pajamas. I have been wondering if I should cut mine back. They are all turning a little dusty purple. Hoping to get another beautiful bloom cycle out of them. We absolutely loved watching the little pollinators visit every morning.

...and there's Mr. Benjamin the Supervisor!!!! So adorable!

I had no idea there were so many varieties of Nepeta - love the blue hues and I often refer back to your prior video on blue flowers♥

LoVE the PURPLE with the PINK!!! When you educate us on: "Honey Bees" - we know you love them, and I'm trying! (I'm afraid of bees) Question: If they attack Honey Bees - does it also attack wasps? Here in North Carolina - the wasp are lovers of boxwoods...ugh! I had to rewind to view the Chicken coop - did you put a Gardeners Supply Planter for supper for the chickens? 🌷🌷🌸🌸🌷🌷😎😎 (that's my emoji of Benjamin with his shades. LOL.

The side area is really filling in! So cool to watch the process and see how it grows.

You picked the right year to plant trees. Cool temps and lots of moisture. They should establish well 🌳🌲

I will definitely have get those! Love the colors! Laura I wish that here was cool like at your place! Hot and muggy😵 I don't like the summers in Georgia! I don't want to go outside at all! Ugh! 🤗💗🤗💜💜💜

That tree behind you AWSOME!!

Oh my! So many beautiful things to peek at in the background… garden tour soon?? The chicken coop garden (always my favorite) is looking especially glorious! Ps Laura your outfit is so cute but what the mess it’s JUNE and two layers! How wonderful!

Morning Everyone 🌸💕🌸

New this Spring in my garden poolside.... Cat's Pajamas! It's in a perfect spot. Then Cats Meow in the courtyard. Loving the nepata!.

Love the tree you are standing beside in the presentation 🌴what an artistic bark 🥰

I live in North East Texas and I feel like we traded weather this spring/summer. We normally have a rather wet spring but its been pretty dry here so I definitely understand your excitement for rain...I'm watering way more than normal!!

Good Morning GA friends and family.! Have a great day 😀

Love that coreopsis, Shades of Rose! I have seen about 2 honey bees in our garden this year. NE Ohio. Other types of solitary bees and some bumble bees but no honey bees. I see so many neighbors with spray gallons of round-up. Sad!

We bought catmint this year and planted it it was a beautiful little bushy plant. It lasted one evening like that. The next morning it is a flat circle (still alive and blooming) on the ground from the feral cats (there is a colony living across the street) rolling on it at night. It is now behind a fence a perking back up. I would love to see ours get beautiful and tall again like yours.

I'm still in love with those curtains in the window of the chicken coop 🐥🥰.

So jealous of your current weather. We (zone 8, coastal NC) are dealing with your normal conditions. Extremely dry, unbearably hot (even at night), and add oppressive humidity. With this weather in June, I can’t imagine what July and August will bring. I am so thankful for AC!

I'm amazed @ how pretty the spring pansies & violas still look around the chicken coop. Your Interesting weather makes for happy surprises.

Weirdest weather pattern in WI, where I live as well. Hot, hot, HOT! Not sure how you plant in 98 degrees….as it was here this week. I’m not mulched and don’t have a water system so not sure how to keep my garden from looking stir-fried. Guess it’s water by hand…..Now I truly appreciate your tenacity in putting up videos all summer long. 👍🥵🫡

The weather in northwest Washington has been extremely wet this year. I've seen it before but many years ago (30 yrs). We live at 1000 ft behind a mountain and have received 75 inches of rain and very few sunny days in June. April and May had more sunny days than June has. I'm so glad that you are getting a good mix of sun and rain. Your garden looks beautiful.

My cats do love the catmint, but they don't damage it. They lay down next to it and rub their faces in it, then they just chill. Like really chill.

Nepata and coreopsis are tough perennials that are perfect for planting on public island beds

👋Good morning Laura and family Everything looks great, Nepeta, got to remember that flower, this would look great in my garden I'm headed to Amarillo Saturday to look for different types perennials 💐 and one of them is going to be nepeta. We are in the need of rain🌧🌩 please sent some our way. Thank you for sharing, have a great rest of the day and weekend 😊

Love these perennials. Your gardens are so beautiful.☺️❤️

I have added two types of sage to my Ontario, Canada garden. They are wonderful. Thank for all your inspiration.

Benjamin, you are so cute. I love your videos, so relaxing and wholesome.

This is the first year my gardens have seen the fruits of my labour and lessons from GA. While working out in the front beds, I have received five compliments so far this year! I owe it all to Laura and the knowledge I have gained from this channel. I think I need to create a good amount of space for PW Cat's Pyjamas! It seems like a powerhouse perennial.