- Herb
- Bees and butterflies
- Edible flowers
- Edimentals
- Medicinal
Black peppermint
Mentha X pipertum
Excellent edible perennial and wildlife plant with medicinal uses. Also quite ornamental with compact and attractive form.
PLANT TYPE Herb
PLANT HABIT Perennial
USES Culinary, Medicinal, Pollinators, Ornamental
DESCRIPTION
Magical and mysterious, this is a beautiful herb that likes the dark moist corners of a garden. Also known as Chocolate mint or After Eight mint, it makes a great desert garnish, icecream flavourer or peppermint (iced?) tea. Like all mints is a great plant for pollinators, producing beautiful clumps of small pink/mauve flowers on roundish flower heads in summer.
PRODUCT NOTES Presently all our stock of this plant is all in the ground, so you would be receiving bare rooted stock of several bracts, rather than a potted plant.
RECOMMENDED LOCATION Pot, Forest garden, Wildlife garden, Ornamental garden
Aspect Moist shade, Moist partial shade, Moist full sun
Height 50cm
Spread It's mint, so: all of the whole world
Hardiness RHS rating H7 - Very hardy
Prefered soil pH pH 6-7
Management and care Unless kept in a pot, will spread voraciously once established, looking for nice dark and moist niches. Despite our own best advice, we planted it in the shady bottom of the garden where it happily spreads and flowers.
Origin/history
Native of Europe.
