This makes a delicious mint tea and a lovely zingy sauce.

A hardy perennial with purple flowers from summer to autumn. Shiny peppermint and basil scented leaves. Good in salad dressings.

Strongly flavoured peppermint with dark stems and leaves.

This one has large, hairy, soft green, round leaves with pale mauve flowers. It's a good one for mint jellies or sauces or to add to vegetables and salads. Hardy perennial.

If you enjoy coffee, take a sprig of this and put it in the bottom of your coffee cup and let it steep for a few moments..... Also good finely chopped and added to chocolate sauces, frostings or ice cream.

This mint is another hardy perennial with mauve-pink flowers in summer. It has large purple and orange tinted, dark green leaves with a strong eau de Cologne perfume. Use in oils, add to your bath. It is said that the essential oil is antiseptic but toxic in large doses and should not be used by pregnant women.

This hardy perennial has mauve flowers in summer and very lovely oval, variegated gold and green leaves. Good for adding to vegetables, salads and fruit salads and delicious with melon.

Developed from apple and lime mint, lemon mint has a sweet, fruity, spearmint-like aroma with a

This is a lovely plant for running your hands through - plant near the edge of a path for just that purpose. It isn't too vigorous and overwhelming and its leaves are very pretty.

The common garden mint used in drinks, salads, sauces and of course, chewing gum and toothpaste. Not quite as strong as peppermint.

A fine toothed foliage which is strongly mint scented. Likes poor, moist soil in full sun. Can reach 3' when flowering. Hardy perennial.