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This site has been offline for some time and prior to that was becoming seriously out-of-date. This was due to prolonged and distressing family illness, which is now improving to the extent that I can spend some time on the website as well as on the plants. The site has many of the same pages with newer or additional information, but not all is yet completed and some pages are still wanting. I have uploaded what there is to give readers something for the effort of visiting the site. Further revisions or additions will not be too long coming.
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The Mentha.info website has been created to provide information on mints, that can be difficult to find. The current scope of the site is the limit of the time available up to now and so will expand slowly over time. It is not a professional botanical or horticultural production, but although amateur it aims to provide as much detail as an ordinary enthusiastic grower of mints might want.
This website is produced in and based on information from the UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). So the use of the Mentha.info domain as the address might bring disappointment to readers from outside the UK, but there is no .uk version of .info for me to use. "Sources" and "Places to see" for other countries could be added but I do not have the spare time, as a full-time Carer, to promise any timetable if I have to search it all out myself. So if you would like it on the site you will have to send information to me.
The background picture on the Mentha.info site, at the moment, is a close-up of a not-yet-flowering shoot of Mentha x piperita citrata 'Chocolate' or chocolate mint (sometimes, wrongly, as chocolate peppermint), which came from Arne Herbs, who acquired their original plant from a source in New Jersey, USA.
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Classification of mints
What are mints and how do they relate to other plants. This is I hope explained simply on the classification page.Cultivation of mints
Mints aren't that difficult to grow, if you don't have too many, or you don't live in the driest parts of the UK, but some tips may be of help, so I have summarized my views and experiences, so far, on the most important points on the cultivation page.Books on mints
Herb books, vegetable and allotment gardening books will most likely have something to say on mint, with the bigger the book the more the "varieties" mentioned. But if you are searching for real information this may be difficult. Publications specialising on mints will be on the books page, but this page is still being worked on.Where to see mints
In the UK places to see mints growing are mostly at nurseries, which may have some larger plants you can look at at any time, as well as some smaller plants you can buy. National Plant Collections® of Mentha will have larger plants to see, by arrangement, but may not sell plants, or if they do are unlikely to have all forms you see in their Collection available to buy at the time of a visit, if they do sell plants.Places to buy mints
In the UK a few plants can be found in most Garden Centres and Nurseries these days, with a larger choice available by visiting your nearest Herb Farm. If you are really sure you can accommodate even more mints in your garden then try the few specialist sources.What's available if you want to buy mints
This page contains a table plant names listed as available by the nurseries with the largest lists of mints. If you are really sure you've got the room, then have a look at the plants page.The naming of mints
This page is aimed at explaining the way names have, and have not, been given to mints - botanical, horticultural and common names. How to write the names correctly and why.
Casgliad Cenedlaethol Mentha, the National Mentha Collection in Wales
This sub-section of the website is information specifically related to this National Plant Collection, designated by the NCCPG (Plant Heritage) in 1991.
To contact me with suggestions and helpful ways to improve these pages, and even provide information to put on them, please email: website @ mentha.info .
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