Mint is one of the easiest herbs to grow but needs containment — here is everything you need for a productive patch.
Mint is one of the easiest herbs to grow but needs containment — here is everything you need for a productive patch.
Catmint (Nepeta x faassenii and related species) produces soft clouds of lavender-blue flowers from late spring through autumn, is extraordinarily drought-tolerant once established…
Australia's native mint species offer unique flavour profiles quite different from introduced mint — more complex, more herbal, and in some cases more intensely flavoured.
Mint is simultaneously one of the most useful and most invasive herbs in the Australian garden. A complete guide to the varieties worth growing, containment strategies that actuall…
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