Kitty Catnip

Experience the rich, fresh, minty flavor of our all natural catnip grown in the rich, volcanic soils of the Cascade Mountains. The Most Flavorful Catnip Around!

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7/7/26t
Big puffy #catnip #flower #buds are growing fast from plants that are almost 4 feet tall in places. And will continue to grow for the next 2 months. These bud clusters will soon transition to thicker heavier seed buds – which have the most flavor. #garden #Kittitas

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6/28/26u
Catnip #flower #buds have arrived about a week earlier this year. These #kittycatnip #plants are #growing in our raised beds which provide plenty of sun and protection from weeds and creeping #prairie grass (both which impact the longevity of our plants). #garden

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Our #flower #buds are about ready to burst open with a new year’s worth of #catnip #flowers – and about 10 days early this year. These tiny #flowers - only a few millimeters wide - are a perfect size and shape for our #honey #bees which will be visiting soon.

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6/9/26t
Our #greenhouse catnip garden has started to #bloom. The green flower buds on a 4 foot tall #plant will soon #flower while the others are attracting #bees through open windows. The larger outdoor gardens will start to bloom at the end of the month. #kittycatnip #garden

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Unusual rain lately is helping our Kitty Catnip grow up fast and tall – almost 2 feet now. The #plants first grow out horizontally but when it comes to #flowers, they begin to grow tall. Our first harvest is coming up in just about a month – stay tuned! #kittycatnip #garden

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These new catnip transplants are now growing fast in fresh #compost. Our catnip buds from last year will soon be available again. In the interim our “Nip Stick” and Powdered Catnip products are still available. Stay tuned. #garden #catnip #kittycatnip

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First of the season growth – after transplanting these #kittycatnip plants last fall. Last year’s residual leaf litter and stems is not very pretty… but they are just getting started. In a new raised bed and isolated, they will do well and with less completion. #garden #catnip

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Very late season #catnip #flower – (mid left). Today was our first snow, after a wet and mild fall. Our 3 year drought may be over – with #creeks in the Kittitas valley full & #flooding in places. But these robust #kittycatnip #plants keep growing, waiting for warmer #weather.

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Late season #catnip #flower and #seed #bud clusters. Still harvesting and flowers are still growing and attracting bees and butterflies too – although not as much as in the early summer months. #Flowers will diminish until mid-fall until a hard frost makes it mark.

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Ready for #Harvest: All of the #catnip #flowers from the past few weeks have mostly transitioned into flavorful #seed #buds – which are the part of the plant that cats love. We clip these thick #bud #clusters, dry, then store them until packaging this fall. #nature #cats #garden

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The transition: the former #catnip #flower #bud clusters are now developing into thick and dense #seed bud clusters but still have some #flowers and #bees mixed in. These will continue to transition and begin to dry a bit on the plant looking more golden colored as they do. #cats

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Beyond mid-season & about 4 weeks from our first #flowers and our #flower #bud clusters are transitioning into thick & #flavorful #seed #bud clusters with a very attractive scent… that cats love best! It is these clusters that we harvest, dry, sort and package for sale on Amazon

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#Honeybees are buzzing all over our #kittycatnip #plants transforming the quick growing #flower #buds into #seed #bud clusters – the part that we harvest and the part that cats love!

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Notice that the #buds – once #pollinated by the #honeybees – have now transitioned into cupped green #seed buds - the part of the #catnip that #cats crave – SO flavorful! These bud clusters grow taller and taller all season long and may have hundreds of buds before harvest time.

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The tops of the #kittycatnip plants are now growing thick and tall - producing ever growing #flower #bud #clusters. #Honeybees are all over these tiny 2mm #flowers which in a few weeks will transform into the flavorful #seed bud clusters that #cats love best. #pollinators #bees

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More progress brings on those tiny 2mm wide white and pink #catnip #flowers. From a distance they see unremarkable but up close they are rather pretty with some unique markings. And the #pollinators like them too including a hungry #honey #bee. More images coming. #kittycatnip

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Every day brings new progress with our #kittycatnip #flower development. These images show our tiny 2mm #flower #buds which are about ready to pop. Next comes the bees. Then after #pollination they will transform into our flavorful #cat #loving #catnip seed buds. Stay Tuned!

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These #catnip plants are concentrating all of their energy into producing #flower #bud clusters from a central stalk as seen in the center of the images. We should be seeing flower #buds in just a few days – then the #bees will be coming. Stay Tuned!

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All spring these #catnip plants have been #growing wide then tall with one goal – to produce #seeds. What you see here is a concentration of leaves in the center of one of the growing stalks that in about 3 weeks will begin to produce #flower #buds! Stay tuned!

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Finally - after a long winter - new #catnip leaves are popping through the leaf litter and will soon be basking in the #spring sunshine marking the start of a new #growing #season. We should be seeing our first flowers in about 110 days.