Sow seeds outside in late fall or early spring. Start seeds indoors about a month before outside temperatures are expected to reach 50°F. Keep the seeds warm until they germinate, and moist but never ...

This year, I decided to grow something different in my herb garden. In past years, I have grown varieties of mints (chocolate, mojito, apple, pineapple and spearmint) and found they could be quite ...

Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) isn’t particularly showy — with its pale, gray-green foliage and tiny flowers you could walk right past it without even noticing it — but this native perennial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gardener picks fresh mint leaves from a plant in the garden - encierro/Shutterstock If you dream of harvesting fresh, minty ...

If someone told you to go and find a bunch of mountain mints, where would you look? Strangely enough, if you went looking for mountain mints in the mountains, you might have a hard time finding them.

* What it is: Sometimes called "clustered mountain mint" or "short-toothed mountain mint," this native perennial has silvery-gray leaves and small clusters of pinkish flowers that form on cones at the ...

My pollinator perennial garden is the heart of my yard. It’s where bees, butterflies and birds congregate to enjoy blossoms that begin with daisies and daylilies in spring, peak with bee balm and ...

Learn about plants of the mint family in a wide range of varieties that pollinators — and people! — just can’t resist.

If someone told you to go and find a bunch of mountain mints, where would you look? Strangely enough, if you went looking for mountain mints in the mountains, you might have a hard time finding them.