Mint Garden
£6.50
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notes
Garden Mint is a very versatile herb which bears bright green, hairless leaves with long spikes of lilac flowers. Its bushy growing habit means it has a compact form, filling your border with vivid summer colour.
Dimensions
Pot Size: 1L (14cm / 6in)
Features
notes
Garden Mint is a very versatile herb which bears bright green, hairless leaves with long spikes of lilac flowers. Its bushy growing habit means it has a compact form, filling your border with vivid summer colour.
Insights
With an array of culinary uses, garden mint is often used for a tangy mint sauce to accompany roast lamb or to garnish new potatoes and peas. Additionally, it has a remarkable reputation for calming the nerves, soothing sleep and relieving sickness - making it popular amongst herbalists.
Details
- Deciduous perennial
- Fully hardy
- Flowers: June - August
- Low maintenance
- Relatively disease and pest free
Planting
- Any moist, well-drained soil
- Any aspect
- Full sun or partial shade
- Exposed or sheltered
Care
- Grown in peat free compost in a biodegradable pot made from waste coir and natural latex. Pop the discarded coir pot in the green bin, leave out for birds to use for nesting, use as mulch or add to compost heap.
- Cut back old stems at the end of the year to ground level.
Scent
Releases a minty, aromatic scent when the leaves are rubbed.
Glossary
Mint Garden
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