| Description | Common Mint, All types of mint are vigorous, fast growing, spreading perennials. You need to plant them where they have room to spread or plant them in pots. Mint plants send out runners just above and below the ground level, quickly forming large lush green patches. Planted in the right spot they make fantastic ground covers. Mint can grow anything up to 1m tall, but require regular trimming to ensure nice bushy, healthy plants. Although mint is hardy and will adapt to almost any spot in your garden, it prefers cool damp conditions in partial shade. Mints make good companion plants, repelling unwanted pests and attracting beneficial ones. The leaf is used in cooking, fresh or dried. Although fresh is usually preferred. It is used in a wide range of cuisine, including, teas, beverages, jellies, candies, syrups and ice creams. Mint is infamous for being one of the most common herbs to used when cooking lamb. And can be used in cooking, as a garnish, or in a sauce to accompany the dish. Mint was originally used as a medicinal herb to treat stomach aches and chest pains. In Ancient Rome, students were encouraged to wear wreaths of mint to "exhilarate the mind", And in medieval times, mint leaves were ground into powder and used to whiten teeth. Mint is also known to be used to treat insect bites. | Stachys byzantina (syn. lanata)
Irresistibly soft, furry silver foliage, the 'Lambs Ear' is a must have in every Cottage garden.
• Tall purple flowers
• Looks great in pots, rockeries, along pathways and mass planted
• Tolerates dry soils
6"/14cm pot size. | Malus purpurea
The Purple Crab Apple makes a handsome small tree, quite round topped in maturity. With beautiful flowers which are a deep, red-purple colour creating an effect that looks almost unbelievably rich.
A great specimen tree, in Autumn the Purple Crab Apple has dark purple fruit and leaves which turn shades of yellow and red.
13" pot size. | Rosa hybrid tea 'Fragrant Cloud Rose'
Fragrant Cloud roses feature red-orange blooms, and in line with their name they are very fragrant. The plant itself is vigorous, upright growing with very well formed blooms.
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| Content | | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Mentha, or Mentha Sachalinensis, or Garden Mint
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| conditions |
Full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Border, rockeries, groundcover
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| botanical name |
Malus ioensis ?Purpurea?
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| height x width |
5m x 3m
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| features |
Bronze-coppery green flowers with single showy red flowers with a hint of pink and strong golden stamens from mid to late spring
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| conditions |
Full sun in well drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, group planting, floral arrangements, general landscaping
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