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Gardening Clubs and Societies in North Wales
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Gardening Clubs and Societies in North Wales. Gardening clubs and organisations. Click here for North Wales groups of National UK Gardening Societies. Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden. The Friends aim to help to develop North Wales' Botanic Garden at Treborth, near the Menai Bridge, Bangor, Gwynedd, as well as to provide meetings, workshops and plant sales to promote the benefits of gardening to people, the environment and biodiversity. Sarah Edgar, Tan Felin Wen, Pontrug, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2BB.
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Mentha.info - site updates
http://www.mentha.info/updates.html
Rmation on mint plants. After the loss of my wife and Caree in the new year I eventually got around to making the changed needed to bring things up-to-date, since the last overhaul 2 years ago. Whole website goes back online. Some pages not fully revised, (and my National Plant Collection pages reduced to one), but other pages revised and now have additional information on the site. Last century - date forgotten. Top of this page. Rmation on mint plants. This area still under construction.
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Mentha.info - classification of mints
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Rmation on mint plants. Mints are the plants that are botanically classified together within the. Mints are related to sages, rosmaries, marjorams basils and thymes, all belonging to the botanical classified. Lamiaceae (previously known as Labiatae). You will occasionally see all the plants classified within the Lamiaceae. Described as mints or in the mint. Especially in American sources - this is confusing and unnecessary. To the ordinary gardener the difference in the Botanical terms. Top of the page.
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Mentha.info - cultivation of mints
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Rmation on mint plants. Most mint plants can be invasive, at least to the low maintenance garden, so you will need to examine your approach to growing them, before you start. Pots and containers are fine, but mints do not thrive without a moist soil, in the summer, and good fertility. Being herbaceous perennials the top growth dies down during the winter, whilst rhizomes. For pot culture the bigger the pot the better, Although do not overpot your new 3. 9cm potsize plants in spring. I have heard some...
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Mentha.info - where to see mints in the UK
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Rmation on mint plants. Where to see mints in the UK. The easiest way to see mints is at Garden Centres, Nurseries or Flower Shows. The problem is that these will be very small plants in a 3 /9cm pot or a 1 litre pot if your are lucky. The plants will also be rather exuberant, and not as good as normal growth; or worse, brown, because they have dried out. So are there any large collections of living plants that you might be able to go to have a look at? Scheme or Herb Nurseries. There may be mints to see...
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Mentha.info - mints you can buy in the UK
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Rmation on mint plants. You can buy in the UK. If you already have a few mints, and are looking for more, then most UK Herb Farms have a very good selection of mints, and provide plenty of choice for your acquisitions. There's no point in spending your money on a lot of plants that you may not be able to look after, especially during the winter, so don't get get carried away and get too many at once! You could try the RHS website. Use their Nursery Finder. Alternatively look on my. An asterisk* indicates...
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National Mentha Collection - glossary for this website
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Rmation on mint plants. Glossary of some terms used on this site. This page is still being developed, so will be changed and added to from time to time. Is what each individual plant is called within a Plant Collection. It could have the same name and even actually be the same mint as several others within the Collection. Each accession. Form (or forma, in the correct botanical language) is a level of description and naming of wild plants, below variety. F alopecuroides and Mentha. The accurate term used...
