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Calamintha nepeta 'Blue Cloud', commonly known as Blue Cloud Calamint or Lesser Calamint, is a compact, mounding perennial herb in the mint family featuring aromatic, gray-green to light green, ovate leaves with a strong peppermint or minty fragrance when crushed. It produces airy, cloud-like clusters of delicate, tubular, pale lavender-blue to soft sky-blue flowers from early to midsummer through fall (often June to October or frost), creating a long-lasting hazy bloom effect. These nectar-rich blooms attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, making it a favorite for wildlife gardens. As a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plant once established, it thrives in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soils, tolerating dry conditions and poor soils while resisting deer and requiring good drainage to prevent rot. Its tidy, bushy habit and profuse, reblooming flowers (enhanced by deadheading or cutting back) make it ideal for borders, rock gardens, edging, containers, or as a fragrant filler among taller perennials.
ORIGIN - Not US native
EXPOSURE PREFERENCE - Full sun, tolerates am shade
FLOWER COLOR - light blue
HEIGHT - 10-12"
HABIT - evergreen
MOISTURE - moist/well drained
HARDINESS ZONES - 5-7
Calamintha nepeta 'Blue Cloud', commonly known as Blue Cloud Calamint or Lesser Calamint, is a compact, mounding perennial herb in the mint family featuring aromatic, gray-green to light green, ovate leaves with a strong peppermint or minty fragrance when crushed. It produces airy, cloud-like clusters of delicate, tubular, pale lavender-blue to soft sky-blue flowers from early to midsummer through fall (often June to October or frost), creating a long-lasting hazy bloom effect. These nectar-rich blooms attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, making it a favorite for wildlife gardens. As a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plant once established, it thrives in full sun to partial shade with well-drained soils, tolerating dry conditions and poor soils while resisting deer and requiring good drainage to prevent rot. Its tidy, bushy habit and profuse, reblooming flowers (enhanced by deadheading or cutting back) make it ideal for borders, rock gardens, edging, containers, or as a fragrant filler among taller perennials.
ORIGIN - Not US native
EXPOSURE PREFERENCE - Full sun, tolerates am shade
FLOWER COLOR - light blue
HEIGHT - 10-12"
HABIT - evergreen
MOISTURE - moist/well drained
HARDINESS ZONES - 5-7