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Author Message   Greth  Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 07:06 pm EST :    Woohoo, I have found two new mints in the last week. Now I have - common mint, apple mint, variegated apple mint, basil mint, peppermint, spearmint, eau de cologne mint, ginger mint, vietnamese mint, chocolate mint, and 'old fashioned mint' I'm in minty heaven! Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Skybird  Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:06 pm EST :    You still need orange mint! Skybird Skybird - Colorado, Zone "z5, Denver, CO"   Greth  Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 02:05 pm EST :    Lol, still collecting Skybird. There's a nursery near hear which has 30 varieties, but she doesn't have all of them ready for sale, and she isn't cheap. Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Skybird  Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 04:09 pm EST :    Guess what! Right after I posted that last night I thought of another one! Have you ever seen pineapple mint. It's a really cool variegated one, and the scent is WONDERFUL. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=pineapp le+mint Have you tried looking for them in the herb department? You should be able to find a lot of different varieties and get them in 2" pots which should be pretty cheap. And with mint---well---you really don't need to start out with a big one since you're going to get a BIG one no matter what you start with. LOL You must have a big garden if you're growing that many mints! Skybird P.S. My favorites are orange and chocolate! Skybird - Colorado, Zone "z5, Denver, CO"   Greth  Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 03:27 pm EST :    Long since finished with the herb department Skybird - 'tis why I run a specialist herb nursery! The nursery which used to supply most of SA with herbs is run by friends of mine, so I got most of them below wholesale price!Actually I forgot corsican mint, Vietnamese mint, pennyroyal (which is technically a mint) and native pennyroyal. Also one variety of catmint, catnip, lemon catnip, lemon balm and lime balm in similar plants. I grow the mints in planter troughs in the shadehouse, to keep them separate, and lift them often to divide them for sale plants. I do have a rather large garden, but it is too hot and dry to grow mints outside. My established garden so far is quite small, but I have 85 acres to play with... Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Skybird  Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 09:17 pm EST :    I wondered about growing mint down there! I live in a dry climate too! I didn't even think of corsican mint. It's so different from the others--and definitely doesn't like to dry out too much. I love the scent, but it can be hard to grow here in Denver. I wondered, too, about how different it might be to buy things there compared to here. Around here most of the mints you mentioned are easily available in small pots in the herb dept. at garden centers. When I was selling perennials we also sold many of them in the perennial department. I don't actually grow any at the house I'm in now because I have very limited space and if I started planting them in the ground they'd take over everything. And since I leave for days at a time, it's impossible to keep anything in pots wet with our low humidity. (For scent I have things like Agastache, which loves the dryness, behaves itself, and comes in many different scents. I only have one now--just moved in here 2 years ago--but plan to add some more. Every time I walk by I rub my hand on the foliage and walk around the backyard smelling my hand!) And Nepeta is a whole other thing! Since N. faassenii is xeric, I'd like to get a couple of them too. 'Six Hills Giant' and 'Walker's Low' are 2 really nice ones. But they can spread a lot too, so I get back to the limited space problem. There are just TOO MANY things I want! LOL I think a lot of us have that problem! Let me know when you have all of your 85 acres filled up and I'll come visit you! Skybird Skybird - Colorado, Zone "z5, Denver, CO"   Greth  Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 08:05 am EST :    Most of the mints I mentioned are pretty readily available here too. I collect all sorts of herbs, so although I pick up all kinds of new stuff as often as I can afford it, mints are not the highest things on my wish list. The lemon catnip and the lime balm are definitely rare, they came from the lady I mentioned, at a steep price (and will soon be more available cheaply from you know who) The planter troughs are my solution for this dry climate. Everything in the shadehouse gets watered daily, nothing outside it gets watered after the day it was planted (In general, though I have been known to help things along a little during their first dry season) There are some pics of my garden in the Deja Vu forum - it is not much compared to the usual offerings of Gardenbuddies. In my defence, I was starting with bare dry paddock, very little topsoil or rainfall, no mains water, regular visitations from goats for the first year, and I have been either pregnant or encumbered with small child for most of the time since I started. DH does not garden. Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Greth  Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 08:08 am EST :    I think Pineapple Mint is another name for the Variegated Apple Mint I mentioned, so I probably have that already. Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Skybird  Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 11:51 am EST :    No, pineapple mint has MUCH more scent than apple--and amazingly like pineapple. If you ever have a chance, give it a sniff. The variegation DOES look the same though. Skybird - Colorado, Zone "z5, Denver, CO"   Greth  Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 06:16 am EST :    Okies, I will believe you and keep my eyes and nostrils open. Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Sueanne  Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 - 09:10 pm EST :    I love spearmint especially in a tea. Made a bouqet of my mint cuttings in a vase. Now I can go out in the porch to pick some whenever I want to make a cup. } Sueanne - Florida, Zone "9"   Stephie  Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 08:44 am EST :    I also have banana mint, grapefruit mint, candy mint as well as the ones mentioned. Have a whole garden (segregated) of them because you can make sauces and teas with them as well as candy and baking. I think my fave is chocolate!!! Stephie   Greth  Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 06:11 pm EST :    wow Stephie. A lot of mine died in the drought last year. I know someone who has about 30, she charges a lot tho. Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"   Stephie  Posted on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 08:26 am EST :    Tanacetum balsam is another good "mint-like" herb.....really nice! Cosmary...bible plant....very old herb that's a nice change in the mint garden. Stephie

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