Apple Mint

Mentha suaveolens

Apple-scented, grey-green leaves and dense spikes of pink or white summer flowers. This vigorous mint looks lovely growing in a large terracotta container. The leaves can be used to make an tasty mint sauce, added to salads or freshly boiled new potatoes.

• Position: full sun
• Soil: poor, moist soil
• Rate of growth: fast-growing
• Flowering period: July to August
• Flower colour: pink or white
• Other features: leaves can be added to salads, freshly boiled new potatoes and mint sauce
• Hardiness: fully hardy

• Garden care: To prevent mint from romping through a herb garden, restrict the spread by growing it in a sunken container, with adequate drainage holes. Lift and divide each year in spring, replanting the younger, vigorous sections of the plant in fresh compost
• Goes well with: Salvia officinalis 'Icterina', Melissa officinalis, Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum', Petroselium crispum, Ocimum sativum, Petroselium crispum