Mint Spearmint
£6.50
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notes
With long spikes of lilac flowers, this well-known perennial, Spearmint, has hairless leaves, which are great for making mint sauce or adding to fruit salads or summer drinks. Plant it in a container on a sunny terrace, where you can enjoy its aroma and pick leaves easily for the kitchen.
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Dimensions
- Pot Size: 1L (14cm / 6in)
- Height and Spread: 60cm (1ft 11in) x 150cm (4ft 11in)
Features
notes
With long spikes of lilac flowers, this well-known perennial, Spearmint, has hairless leaves, which are great for making mint sauce or adding to fruit salads or summer drinks. Plant it in a container on a sunny terrace, where you can enjoy its aroma and pick leaves easily for the kitchen.
Insights
Grown in peat free compost in a biodegradable pot made from waste coir and natural latex. Remove plant from pot or cut/tear away some of the coir if the plant is well rooted and hard to remove.
Details
- Flowers: July- August
Planting
- Moist, well-drained soil
- South, West or East aspect
- Full sun
- Sheltered
Care
- 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 after flowering. The herb will die back in the autumn but will reappear with new growth in spring
- Easy to grow, it will soon spread into a large clump so restrain by planting within a (well watered) large pot
- Coir pots are supplied by one specific village producer in Sri Lanka. They have built a school, old people's home and extension to the local medical centre over the years from the proceeds of coir pot production
Scent
Aromatic
Glossary