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Get the Healthy Living Herbs Catnip Hanging Basket to ensure a constant fresh supply to your feline friend. It is easy to grow and protected against feline attack. Let it mature, place it in a reachable position and you and your cat can enjoy the catnip effect.

CatnipCatnip is a 60-100cm tall perennial herb resembling mint, with greyish-green leaves; the flowers are green-white. This is the catnip that cat's go crazy about.

Catnip has nepetalactone, a terpenoid. Cats detect it through olfactory receptors where it probably mimics a cat pheromone, such as the hypothetical feline facial pheromone or the cat urine odorant MMB.

Catnip hanging baskets available at the  following Garden Centres:

 

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