I no longer have a herb garden as such. Those days are past me now. What I do have, though, are a few herbs
dotted around the garden.
Most of them are in pots as a lot of herbs seem to like
sharing their space with other plants, or swamping them altogether!
I did a wander around the other day to see how many I actually
have available, and was surprised to find there are 14 of them: borage,
calendula, chives, comfrey, garlic chives, lavender, mint (garden), nasturtium,
parsley, rosemary, sage, salad burnet, thyme and a little patch of violets
(yes, violets are classed as herbs too).
I went to the garden centre the other day and saw this
Chocolate Mint for sale. The smell was
enough to make my mouth water, and I thought what a delicious tea could be made
with its leaves.
I have since found a tea recipe online, but will need to
wait for this little baby to grow a bit bigger before I start raiding it for
leaves. I hope it grows fast!
Have you ever tried using this herb for anything?
Cheers,
Margaret 😊
HEADER PHOTO FOR FEBRUARY 2024
Between Tauranga and Whakatane, in the beautiful Bay of
Plenty, there is a small coastal camping ground area known as Pikowai
Reserve. Back in 2008, we stopped there
for a while and I took this photo down on the beach beside the Pacific Ocean.
You have an impressive number of herbs!! I hope my Chocolate Mint makes it through our winter. I think I grew 4 different kinds of mint last year. I used it mainly to give my pitcher of water in the fridge flavour. I've never cared for water plain but since I started using mint I'm much more apt to enjoy a nice cold glass ( in summer, that is!).
ReplyDeleteWhen I grew all sorts of herbs to sell the chocolate mint was a favourite, but I found when I grew them together they all reverted to ordinary spearmint after a while.
ReplyDeleteThe header is beautiful. I wonder if the garden centres here carry the chocolate mint? Hmmm…
ReplyDeleteI have always been interested in chocolate mint, but have never found any or been lucky enough to sniff it! I have also heard orange mint is nice. I would like to grow all the mints!
ReplyDeleteThe small of chocolate mint is great, I always keep some close to our seating area, never use it.
ReplyDeleteThat reads like a herb garden to me - just because you spread it out doesn't make it not a herb garden. (Lots of good flavours there)
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with chocolate mint, but I'll bet it would make a good tea. I love your header photo!
ReplyDeleteThankyou :)
DeleteI've been to Pikowai a few times when we lived in Mount Maunganui, it's a very wild and windswept beach in Winter, think I still have the photos. I haven't tried the chocolate mint but you've convinced me to buy some, I do love my herbs, at the moment I've got them dotted around the vege garden for a sort of companion planting.
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