Blue nepeta known as Catmint lines the path under an avenue of young trees at Cothay Manor, Somerset, South West England. The gardens were laid out in the 1920s by Col. Reginald Cooper who was great friends with all the gardening grandees of that era; Vita Sackville-West, Lawrence Johnston, Harold Nicholson and Gertrude Jeykll. Interestingly the gardens were laid out in 1925, ten years earlier than those of Sissinghurst.
