• Nepeta Neptune ('Bokratune') in flower, showing its compact bushy habit with purple-blue flower spikes
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Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants

Nepeta Neptune ('Bokratune')

Nepeta Neptune ('Bokratune')

£9.50 GBP
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Size

Plants are dispatched in growing condition and may not be in full flower. If too tall to pack safely, we may cut them back — this helps them establish more quickly. Read our Mail Order FAQs.

Pollinator Friendly

A compact, bushy perennial for full sun or partial shade and free-draining soil. Once established it is relatively drought-tolerant and highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Deer, however, find it utterly uninteresting and will leave it alone.

With a long flowering season from summer through to early autumn, it pays to remove spent flower stems down to the next pair of leaves to encourage more flowers and delay seed production.

Provided it is grown in soil that drains freely year-round, this plant is fully hardy in the UK.

Ideal for pots and containers, and equally useful at the front of beds and borders, in wildlife gardens, and in gravel schemes. An excellent companion to lower-growing Salvia, Achillea, Echinacea, Gaillardia, Festuca, Coreopsis, and Penstemon, to name but a few.

Height × Spread: 30cm × 30cm

☀️ Sunlight Full sun, Partial shade
📅 Season of Interest Summer, Autumn
🌸 Flower Colour Blue, Purple
🌿 Foliage Colour Green
🪏 Preferred Soil Type Chalky, Sandy, Loamy
💧 Soil Moisture Content Low
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Plant Notes

  • Care Guide:

    Grow in well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade. After the first flush of flowers, cut back to keep the plant compact and encourage another display. Leave the old stems and foliage over winter to provide hibernation shelter for ladybirds, then cut back hard in spring as new growth emerges.

    Lift and divide large, established clumps in spring or autumn to rejuvenate them. To raise new plants, take softwood cuttings in early summer.

  • Good to Know:

    Pollinator-friendly. Drought-tolerant once established. Aromatic foliage.

    Some Nepeta attract cats, particularly catnip (Nepeta cataria). They may roll among the stems and chew the leaves, so young plants may need protection from their attention.