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Mints you can buy in the UK

If you are just thinking of buying your first mint plants, visit your all your nearest Garden Centres or Plant Nurseries. From what you have seen you can then go back and pick out several plants to try out. You should easily be able to find half a dozen plants. to try out, but more would be rather a lot to manage before your have gained some experience with mints.

If you already have a few different mints 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 plants that you may not be able to look after, especially during the winter, so don't get too many a once! Try the RHS website to find the nearest Herb Farm in your area, on the Nursery Finder page.

In a year or two when you have exhausted local supply, then the following nurseries, which have more mints or less common forms on their lists, will be worth a special visit (if open to callers). There are also those of us who cannot make such trips and most of the following do provide mail order services. Details of the suppliers are to be found on the Sources page.

Mentha plants listed as available from major suppliers in the UK.
This list is not up-to-date.
It is based on information from 2007 and is provided here as a guide only. There may be errors in names or supplier, so please check for availabilty.
The names are listed alphabetically in Botanical classification, then by any Horticultural classification, and lastly by any other information, such as description or common names. 
Old Hall Plants is no longer a major supplier of varieties 
Unusual Herbs and Edibles is taking a year or two off from supplying plants
Penborn Goat Farm is still selling plants although no longer supplying plants by mail order
Iden Croft Herbs holds a National Collection, but plants listed on their website & in their printed catalogue are only a few in number, whereas the RHS Plant Finder lists more

Click on the nursery initials to go to their contact details
 . AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF UHE
 Mentha "angustifolia" ambig.     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha aquatica AH   ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha aquatica 'Mandeliensis'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha aquatica var. crispa     ICH        
 Mentha arvensis AH   ICH     PGF  
 Mentha arvensis candensis           PGF  
 Mentha arvensis 'Banana'   GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha arvensis piperascens     ICH JHF      
 Mentha arvensis piperascens 'Sayakaze' AH         PGF  
 Mentha asiatica     ICH     PGF  
 Mentha 'Betty's Slovakian'           PGF  
 Mentha "brevifolia"     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha cervina     ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha cervina alba              
 Mentha "crispa x piperita"           PGF  
 Mentha 'Clarissa's Millennium'     ICH     PGF  
 Mentha 'Dionysus'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha dutomasum         OHP PGF  
 Mentha eucalytpus mint   GGH     OHP PGF  
 Mentha gattefossei AH         PGF  
 Mentha x gracillis often given for plant below     ICH     PGF  
 Mentha x gracillis 'Variegata' AH GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha haplocalyx AH       OHP    
 Mentha 'Hilary's Sweet Lemon'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha 'Julia's Sweet Citrus'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha "lacerata"     ICH        
 Mentha lavender mint   GGH     OHP PGF  
 Mentha longifolia     ICH     PGF  
 Mentha longifolia Buddleia mint group AH   ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha longifolia Buddleia mint group "short form"         OHP PGF  
 Mentha longifolia subsp. schimperi     ICH JHF      
 Mentha longifolia silver AH     JHF   PGF  
 Mentha longifolia 'Variegata'       JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha Nile Valley mint AH   ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita white peppermint AH         PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita 'Black Mitchum'           PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita black peppermint AH GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata  Eau-de-Cologne AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Basil'   GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Bergamot'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Chocolate' AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Grapefruit'   GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Lemon'   GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Lime'   GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Orange'   GGH   JHF OHP PGF UHE
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Swiss Ricola' AH       OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita f. citrata 'Thuringer'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita Logee's AH GGH   JHF   PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita var. ouwencellii     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha x  piperita 'Reine Rouge'     ICH   OHP    
 Mentha x  piperita 'Reverchonii'     ICH JHF OHP PGF UHE
 Mentha x  piperita "swiss mint"     ICH     PGF  
 Mentha pulegium AH   ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha pulegium 'Upright' AH   ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha requienii AH   ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha "slovakian"         OHP    
 Mentha x smithiana   GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha "south of france"         OHP    
 Mentha spicata  (can vary considerably) AH GGH   JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Algerian Fruity'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Austrian'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Brundall'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata var. crispa AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata (var. crispa) 'Moroccan' AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Guernsey'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Kentucky Colonel'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Mexican' AH         PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Newbourne'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Pharoah' AH         PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Rhodos'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Russian'   GGH ICH     PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Russian' curled leaf         OHP    
 Mentha spicata 'Russian' plain leaf         OHP    
 Mentha spicata 'Spanish furry'     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Spanish Pointed'     ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Swiss' AH GGH   JHF   PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Tashkent' AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha spicata subsp. tomentosa           PGF  
 Mentha spicata 'Verte Blanche'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha suaveolens AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha suaveolens 'Jokka'           PGF  
 Mentha suaveolens 'Mobillei'     ICH JHF OHP    
 Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata' AH GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha suaveolens subsp. timija     ICH JHF      
 Mentha 'Sweet Pear'         OHP PGF  
 Mentha x villosa     ICH   OHP PGF  
 Mentha x villosa var. alopecuroides   GGH ICH JHF OHP PGF  
 Mentha x villosa (cordifolia) "Jack Green's mint" AH            
 Mentha "verona"         OHP PGF  
               
1. This list is not comprehensive. Why? I have tried, very hard, to make sure that the plants referred to by each individual nursery are indeed the same species, cultivar or clone, even by comparing the growing plants at home, from time to time. However I cannot give an absolute 100% Guarantee about this, not including the odd nursery mistake in individual pot labels. Some nursery's use their own form of description, or even name, where they are unsure of the common name, generalised commercial name or even true cultivar name. This can just add to the already existing confusion of some of the hybrid groups or species with many variations. Another problem is the RHS database following certain lines of approach which don't allow for differences in nursery varieties within close name variations, leading to confusion and even mistakes. It's just one of those things we have to learn to live with, and in light of own experience and reference to other descriptions or plants if there has been a mistake, try again. So for this reason, not wishing to add to the confusion, where the nursery's name or description does not seem to indicate the right plant for that name I have left the plant off the above list. If any nursery wishes to contact me regarding this, please do at: plant-table @ mentha.info
2. This is not a complete list of all mints, but a reflection of most plants that are available for sale at the moment. If the name is correct it is possible it is not available, (even if in a list somewhere!), it may only be available from one source that sells on a couple of forms, or that it really isn't worth growing in your garden. However if you think it should be listed then tell me at: at: plant-table @ mentha.info
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