Thank you for your interest in herb plants from MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers. I've closed plant order processing for 2024/5 season. Online orders for plants will open again mid August for pre-orders with plants being shipped from mid September onwards.
Seeds will become available from May.
If you are interested in my Mini Grow & Use Guides, please email me for processing at minette@tonoli.co.nz during the shop's vacation dates.
The physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.
Always happy to answer emails, and remember to follow my socials for herb inspiration throughout the year. @meadowsweetherbsnz on both Insta and Facebook.
Seeds will become available from May.
If you are interested in my Mini Grow & Use Guides, please email me for processing at minette@tonoli.co.nz during the shop's vacation dates.
The physical nursery and gates sales table plant stand is also closed over winter and will be up and running in spring 2025 for the 2025/26 growing season.
Always happy to answer emails, and remember to follow my socials for herb inspiration throughout the year. @meadowsweetherbsnz on both Insta and Facebook.
Mint – Applemint
$7.50
A PERENNIAL growing from 40cm – 1m with light green broad oval leaves that are somewhat hairy on top and downy underneath. Flowers are white or pink and form in mid to late summer. Attractive to bees.
Can grow in almost any moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position.
Leaves are eatan raw or cooked and like other mints, used as a domestic herbal remedy.
Description
With a sweet, fruity spearmint-like flavour, use this like any mint, fresh or cooked, as a flavouring in salads or cooked foods. A herb tea can be made form the leaves.
Valued as an antiseptic and for aiding digestion. Mint tea can be helpful for fevers, headaches and digestive disorders.
It is repellent to rats and mice.
