Mint
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Mint (Mentha) - Marsh herbs or rock plants of which the variegated form of M. rotundifolia is common, and useful for edgings or for clothing any dry spots. Another is M. gibraltarica, a variety of the native M.
Mint - Growing and Using the Fragrant Herb Mint
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Mint tea
To make tea, you must boil one mint spoon of leaves in 200ml of water. The tea must be drunk cold, three times a day.
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Mint rust is a common fungal disease of garden mint, but also affects marjoram and savory. The fungus causes dusty orange, yellow and black spots on leaves.
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Mint, highly aromatic perennial herbs for any soil in half-shade to full sun. Easy and might be subject to control their creeping rhizomes in time. Flowers are very attractive for butterflies and bees.
Wild Mint
Mentha arvensis
The leaves smell strongly of mint. This is the only true mint (genus Mentha) that is native to Connecticut, though there are others that were introduced.
Water Mint
Characteristics
A wonderful blue flower makes this mint very disitinctive as it grows at the margins of running water and springs.
Swamp Mint-bush - profile
Scientific name: Prostanthera palustris
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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Mint is simply too easy to grow. They thrive in sun or partial shade. They will do well in average soils. Mint withstands droughts, and heat very well. Chances are, you will not have to water them during a drought.
Mexican Mint Marigold is a native to Central America and has small golden yellow marigold-like flowers. This Marigold will bloom from late summer to early winter providing show stopping color for fall.
American Mint is a rigid annual herb of aggressive nature. It starts its vegetative phase either from perrenating rootstock or seeds, with the onset of monsoon rains. It can attain height of approximately 2.5 m within a growing season.
Lamiaceae
Mint Family
(also known as Labiatae)
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This hummingbird mint boasts large spikes of reddish-pink tubular flowers with an orange tint over a long season in summer and early fall. The whole plant is aromatic. Grow in a bed, border, rock garden, or xeric garden.
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A perennial, spreading herb with short-stalked, variegated leaves (to 2 inches across). Clusters of the pink or white flowers (to 1/16 inch) appear on spikes, in summer. The apple-scented leaves are excellent in jams, teas and other dishes.
Wild mint is often used as a domestic herbal remedy, being valued especially for its antiseptic properties and its beneficial effect on the digestion.
Lamiaceae / Mint Lemon Mint (Monarda citriodora)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a annual which can reach 61cm in height (24inches).
Leaves: The leaf arrangement is opposite. Leaves can reach 8cm in length (3inches).
"Powerfully fragrant microscopic mint, useful for carpeting dampish places," wrote author, Louise Beebe Wilder about the tiny Corsican mint. The diminutive mint has long been used as flavoring for crème de menthe liqueur.
Delightfully easy to grow, Mint varieties are used to flavor everything from toothpaste to jelly to liquor. Plants range from low ground covers which scent the air when walked on, to 2-foot flowering spikes.
Short-toothed Mountain Mint
We give up! So many of you claimed this to be superior to P. virginianum that we decided to try it for ourselves. We like it! ...
Common Name: Dotted or Horse Mint
Latin Name: Monarda punctata
Habitat: Dunes, relic prairies, disturbed areas
Blooms: Summer ...
Agastache aurantiaca 'Apricot Sprite' Syn.: Agastache 'Apricot Sprite' vernac. Orange hummingbird mint
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Mint
The mint family offers a tremendous diversity of refreshing scents and tastes for cooking, in beverages, and in potpourris.
Mint
Mentha selections
Plant a patch of cooling, refreshing fragrance by adding mint to your garden. Undemanding and easy to grow, mint boasts a hearty constitution, often growing where other plants fail.
Mint. Herb. Good natural insecticide plant.
Mock Orange (Murraya exotica). Ornamental. Although a rampant grower, it does not invade areas outside its domain.
Monkey's Comb. Apeiba aspera.
Mint, another popular herb today, also had its beginnings early in history. Greek athletes used bruised mint leaves as an after-bath lotion.
Mint Family, Genus Lavandula, Family Lamiaceae, Lavender Dentata, True Lavender, Hybrid
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Mint None Used to flavour food & Mint Tea. Can be grown in pots. Sunny position,
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum' ...
Mint and Lemon Balm are among the most robust of herbs. Plant them in pots on their own as they quickly take over.
Mint ottos have more power than any other aromatic to overcome the smell of tobacco.
The application of a strong decoction of Spearmint is said to cure chapped hands.
Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
Flowering: June-September.
Field Marks: Only one lip of the flower is developed in this species, distinguishing it from all other mints.
Habitat: Moist woods, along streams, in meadows.
Mountain Mint
Pycnanthumum pilosum
Jan. 3, 1999: The entire 4-foot-tall clump has turned a sculptural purplish-bronze, an inert monument to the plant's summer vigor.
Cream de Mint™ (‘Shima') - glossy mint green leaves with cream-white edges, slow growing to 2-2.5 ft high and wide, compact.
Corsican Mint Mentha requienii - This Creeping perennial mint only grows to 1⁄2-inch. Tiny, light purple flowers on small, round, 1⁄4-inch wide, bright green leaves. Makes a great groundcover.
Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
Flowering: May-July
Field Marks: Skullcaps are recognized by the crested calyx. This one differs from others in the genus by its flowers in racemes and its toothless upper leaves.
This lovely Mint is often lost in lush greenery of wet areas. If you are walking through wetlands and smell mint, stop and search for Mentha arvensis.
Hummingbird mint or giant hyssop is a favorite perennial for xeriscaping because of the beautiful flowers and drought-tolerant nature agastache has.
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Catnip, Cat mint [2][3]
Nepeta mussinii; Nepeta grandiflora; Nepeta cataria
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An herb in the mint family, Salvia divinorum is used by the Mazatec Indians for religious purposes. The plant is native to the Sierra Mazateca region of Oaxaca, Mexico, but can also be found growing…
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'Monlep' (Mint Julep™) - Possibly the same as 'Sea Green', this is a compact plant with arching, fountain-like branches. The foliage is a mint green color and is borne on a plant that grows to 4' to 6' tall and wide.
Pea Soup with Mint
As a first course, this refreshing soup is served cool or warm.
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LABIATÆ; Mint Family
Many and diverse species and hybrids of thymes are cultivated for their beauty and fragrance, but this is among the rarest. Finding it worthy, I give here its story.
Henbit is in the mint family and grows as a winter annual in Arkansas. It originated in Eurasia and has now become established as a weed in almost all areas of the US except for a small part of the inner-mountain west.
apple-mint Mentha x villosa
aquatic soda apple Solanum tampicense
arabian coffee Coffea arabica
Arabian jasmine Jasminum sambac
Arabian schismus Schismus arabicus
Arizona cypress Cupressus arizonica
arrow bamboo Pseudosasa japonica ...
Balm-mint (Englisch)
Balsame delle Missioni (Italienisch)
Balsamita maior (Spanisch)
Balsamo (Italienisch)
Balsipi (Kasachisch)
Baltā sinepe (Lettisch)
Baltieji pipirai (Litauisch)
Baltie pipari (Lettisch) ...
Its flavor has been described as spicy and peppery, with a hint of clove and mint. It goes well with olive oil, garlic, lemon, rosemary and thyme. Cut basil leaves as needed for the kitchen. The plants grow back quickly.
In a large glass or wooden bowl, mix 1 quart of dried petals with about 1 ounce by weight of dried herbs or spices of the scent you desire-for example, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, lemon verbena, or mint.
'Mint Julep' Juniper (Juniperus x pfitzeriana 'Mint Julep') h and w 1.5 m, s, Zone 5
'Blue Heaven' Juniper (J. scopulorum 'Blue Heaven') h 4 m, w 2 m, s, Zone 3
'Pleniflora' Japanese Kerria (Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora') h 1.2 m, w 2 m, s f, Zone 5 ...
Lemon balm is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family. Its foliage has a distinctive lemony fragrance when bruised. The leaves are light green, crinkled, slightly hairy, strongly toothed on the margins, more or less egg shaped.
A plant of the family Labiatae (mint family), Origanum vulgare, also called Spanish thyme and wild marjoram, is the usual source for the spice sold as oregano in the Mediterranean countries and in the United States.
Agastache 'Cotton Candy' PP20,991 (Perennial Hummingbird Mint)
This Terra Nova introduction is one of the first of the brightly-colored agastache hybrids to survive our NC summers.
Ajuga is a member of the mint family, and like most mints, its rapid growth rate may create problems. If this invasive attribute of Ajuga is a problem, it may be necessary to use some type of edging material to keep it within bounds.
Description: Marrubium is an erect mint-like plant, indigenous to Britain and widely distributed over Europe, central and northern Asia, and scattered throughout North America.
A small deciduous tree of handsome appearance with deep green toothed leaves to 6 inches, furry and paler underneath, with odor like mint.
MEDICINAL: Elder flowers, mixed with mint and yarrow blossoms, are excellent internal cleansers when fighting flu and colds. A tea of the elder flowers and sassafras is a remedy for acne. Elder flower oil is a remedy for chapped skin.
Forming a rosette of hairy leaves (which can be added to your pims instead of mint) this stunning perennial produces showy flowerspikes that are densely packed with rich red flowers throughout the summer.
Leourus cardiaca (Labiatae) - This member of the mint family gets both its common and latin names from its uses as a medicine. Some studies have shown it to have a mildly sedative effect and possibly reduce blood pressure.
A useful herb, the highly aromatic leaves can be used for tea that tastes of licoricy mint, or dried for poupouri. Young leaves are tasty raw in salads or fresh fruit-cups; tougher older leaves can be added to cooked foods.
Monarda citriodora (Wild Bee Balm, Lemon Mint)
Monarda didyma (Scarlet Beebalm, Oswego Tea, Bergamot)
Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)
Monarda aristata synonym of Monarda citriodora (Wild Bee Balm, Lemon Mint) ...
PLANT DESCRIPTION: Catnip (fig. 7) has all the characteristic earmarks of a member of the mint family: stems square in cross-section, leaves opposite and fragrant, and small flowers in tight clusters at the ends of branches.
 See also: Green, May, Pink, Lavender, Varieties
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