Height: 45cm x 45cm
Flowering Period: June - August
Aspect: Full sun or part shade
Soil Type: Well drained but reasonable soil.
Common Name: Chocolate Mint
Hardiness: Hardy
Annual, Biennial or Perennial: Perennial
 
Culinary Uses
Good for puddings like Ice Cream.
Nice with chocolate or added to strawberries. 
Can be dried. 
Excellent for making tea.
 
Medicinal Uses
Good for digestion or to help stomach upsets (as a tea).
 
Low-growing, spreading perennial mint with green leaves heavily flushed with brown. They produce a lovely 'After Eight Mint' scent when crushed. Produces clusters of mall lilac flowers which are very attractive to pollinators. As with most mints it is best restricted in a bottomless pot in the garden.
 
 
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