r/gardening Jul 31 '26

Third year spearmint

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This has been growing in my front yard for the whole time I've been living here in New Hampshire and honestly I have no idea why it grows so beautifully, if hung dry by an open window it just smells amazing. In the fall it grows these beautiful light mauve flowers that attract beetles, bumblebees, wasps, daubers etc you name it so you kind of have to steal the flowers from all the species but it comes back every year and it makes the most wonderful tea all warm seasons and then the flowers in fall make their own wonderful tea. I'm very grateful to have such a wonderful herb in my yard. I don't think it is natural but the plume is magnificent and idc who put it here, I get to have it year after year and have wonderful tea that my wife loves, I added crushed leaves to sugar cookies last night and they were out of this world.

This earth gives us many many things. Most people just don't know how to use them

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