<![CDATA[Mints, Part 2]]>The mints I showed before, in Part 1, aren’t the only ones in the raised bed. I didn’t buy a couple that didn’t really appeal to me last year (Banana Mint and Grapefruit Mint) but here are the others I did get. I just like having them around to smell. In addition, I planted in a perennial bed one plant of a hardy mint which I am calling Alaska Mint. (It is probably Mentha avensis or Mentha canadensis.) It is trying to crowd out the perennials, though right now of course it is not as large as the transplants.
One of my favorite uses for mint is to chop the leaves fine and add them to unflavored Greek yogurt along with honey, walnuts and a bit of lemon juice.
This time I’m using a slide show; click on any small image to get to the show.
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Peppermint (Mentha piperata)
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Ginger Mint (Mentha x gracilis)
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Spearmint (Mentha spicata)
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Mojito Mint (Mentha x villosa)
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Apple Mint (Mentha rotundifolia)
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Lime Mint
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Kentucky Colonel (Mentha spicata)
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Chocolate Mint (Mentha piperata)
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Alaska Hardy Mint
And the first rose of summer, photographed June 3. This is a wild rose, of the kind that makes up the undergrowth of our birch-aspen forests. I’ve never succeeded in transplanting one, but they sucker like mad and do their best to spread from the birch forest to the lawn.
Alaska Wild Rose
