Mint Garden
Garden Mint (Mentha spicata)
A fresh, cooling herb with bright green leaves, classic mint aroma, and soft lilac flower spikes 🌿💚
🌿 Garden mint, Mentha spicata, is the classic kitchen mint grown in UK gardens and allotments. Its bright green, serrated leaves and upright stems bring freshness, fragrance, and movement to borders, herb beds, and containers. In summer, it produces slender spikes of pale lilac flowers that are highly attractive to pollinators.
Vigorous, hardy, and easy to grow, garden mint thrives in moist, fertile soils and is ideal near the kitchen door for quick harvesting. Its clean, cooling flavour is essential in British, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean cooking.
Garden mint has a fresh, cooling, slightly sweet flavour with a classic “mint sauce” aroma.
• Traditional pairings: new potatoes, garden peas, broad beans, lamb
• Sauces & dips: mint sauce, mint jelly, raita, tzatziki, tabbouleh
• Salads & vegetables: chopped into couscous, grain salads, courgettes, carrots
• Drinks & desserts: herbal teas, iced drinks, fruit salads, syrups
• Finishing herb: scattered over roasted vegetables, grilled meats, summer dishes
Flavour profile: bright, cooling, sweet‑herbal mint with a clean, refreshing finish.
