MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.
Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
Out of Stock
Mint – Spearmint
$8.50
A hardy PERENNIAL growing to 60cm with bright green ovate leaves. Can grow in almost any soil, tolerates heavy clay soil. It preferes moist soil in a full sun or semi-shade position.
Flavourful mint leaves can be eaten raw or cooked; and it is commonly used as a domestic herbal remedy.
The leaves can be eaten raw in salads, or cooked in foods, and has a strong mint flavour. Also made into mint sauces and mint jelly and is a good garnish, or can be brewed into a herbal tea.
The plant is made into a tea for headaches, fevers, and digestive complaints. Leaves and stems can be made into a poultice for bruises.
It can be used as a strewing herb, and is used to repel rats and mice who dislike the plant.
