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.

• Deciduous perennial
• Fully hardy
• Flowers: June - August
• Low maintenance
• Relatively disease and pest free

• Any moist, well-drained soil
• Any aspect
• Full sun or partial shade
• Exposed or sheltered

• 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.

Releases a minty, aromatic scent when the leaves are rubbed.