
Grow your own kisses
Gardening with the RHS
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Growing Mint in a Pot
Mint is the plant for any one who feels like they've been born to this earth to kill everything. If you only have space or inclination to grow one minte, than it should be moroccan mint. It's full of zing without being peppermint. Growing in a pot is the thing because it stops to spread. And it also stops at meeting other varieties of mint if you're growing other ones in the garden. Sometimes people confuse lemon verbina with lemon balm. Lemon balm is meliscera ficinalus, a robust, shrubby plant, tough as old boots. Most gardens will have one somewhere, but its lemon flavour is not great.
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