Years ago I split up a clump of Catmint which had been growing in The Old Cottage Garden. I figured it had grown there for over a century and had survived with no attention so it would be worth trying as a low maintenance ground cover.
I moved it out into the unprotected area of our gardens, planting it along the base of the stone wall in The Forecourt. This area gets no attention at all, no watering, no anything. But would our mob of kangaroos and wallabies demolish it?
Well, the catmint is still there. In fact it has spread and seems happy to colonize this position. So it can be added to that small list of things that the local marsupials don't fancy. We will now give it a helping hand and split it up, spreading it along the entire wall. The bees and butterflies are loving too and after a summer storm the fragrance is heaven.
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