Introduction

Catnip/Catmint

On my outdoor plant experimentation table.

I post about plants in excess. Well, it may be a fairly nominal amount in the larger scheme of millennial milieu; though for me, considering I’ve only been on this kick since October, I think “excess” applies.

While I’ll continue to post plant-related things on Instagram, where lovely plant-related posts belong, I may as well duplicate that effort here, in a more thorough and deliberate manner. These posts will likely still be photography-oriented as I tend to photograph better than I can write, perhaps in time I’ll be able to build a narrative of our little garden - something to look back on and to share with the parents, yknow?

So to start, a bit of elaboration on the image above. This is the outcome of a very small cutting I took of our catnip (catmint?). I snipped off a stem just under a node, had it sit in water for a short time, and then stuck it in a pot outside - well before it had started to visibly grow new roots.

Catnip, it seems, is quite prolific. Given it’s a part of that family of plants that will take over all of Oregon if given the chance, this was no surprise. Though it will still catch me off guard to see a small, relatively bare, three-inch cutting taken in May turn into what you see here by the end of June.

This particular cutting was meant as a gift for a friend (Gemini, so it’s getting on well overdue). I’d better get to handing it over before it takes over my yard. Maybe I should start charging it rent?