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not water mint
I was given this as water mint but it doesn't look like the water mint I've grown in the past, th leaves look more like hyssop.. It's been grown in water and arrived in a bucket of water.
I googled water mint and that looked as I expected, not like this. The smell is strongly aoromatic but not really minty
Any ideas
In the sticks near Peterborough
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The stuff growing by the canal here has more pinky purple flowers. What do the leaves smell like?
Hard to describe a smell fidget. strong herb, not mint
It looks like the one in your link Jo.
Is it an undesirable alien?
In the sticks near Peterborough
This site says it's invasive
http://www.lilieswatergardens.co.uk/preslia-cervina-p-1227.html
but that all depends on the space you've got doesn't it? And you've got loadsa space
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pobably won't make it by my pond any more than the other one did. The high and low tide marks are too extreme for anything other than brutes like Iris pseudocorus, sedge, reeds, typha, meadowsweet and caltha. Though the occasional water plantain survives
In the sticks near Peterborough
You need to rig up a sort of bog garden for it Nut
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I rig up a bog garden I'll find something a bit more to my taste to go in it Dove
I do fancy a pond and bog garden with controlled level. Where shall I dig it?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Erm?
What about opening up a bit between the big pond and the field boundary?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think it would have to be near a water supply to keep the level up and that's a long way.
Back lawn job I think.
No praps not, too useful multiple tea servings
In the sticks near Peterborough
Then you need a pretty rill from waterbutt overflows to bog garden - if you line it with a waterproof membrane it shouldn't need too much topping up should it?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Or what about tipping soil into the far end of the pond and turning it into a bog? Would that work?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.