This plant is spreading along and smells of mint. Is it mint or something else,I am planning on chucking it out but wanted to check it wasn't a beauty beforehand.
Looks a lot the oregano that I have growing in every crack and crevice in my garden. About the same size too. But there are several other similar looking herbs
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If I were you I'd transfer some to a large pot or a bed with edges where it can be contained, as you would do with other forms of mint, then dig the rest out as it will smother other plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all. Fair douze dove,you know your stuff. I will dig up and put in some agapanthus. It must have gotten there through a mixed perennial seed packet.
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I wonder if it's one of the Pennyroyals - Mentha pulegium erecta - are its stems sort of square-ish?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The appearance is more like an oreganum/marjoram of some sort but if it smells of mint it must be mint
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Looks a lot the oregano that I have growing in every crack and crevice in my garden. About the same size too. But there are several other similar looking herbs
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Dove the stems are square. How odd. Does that confirm what you think it is?
If the stems are square then it is one of the mint family, they all have square stems. I would go with Dove's suggestion. A thug to get rid off too!
It's a mint - possibly the erect form of Pennyroyal - an interesting herb https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/pennyr23.html .
If I were you I'd transfer some to a large pot or a bed with edges where it can be contained, as you would do with other forms of mint, then dig the rest out as it will smother other plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all. Fair douze dove,you know your stuff. I will dig up and put in some agapanthus. It must have gotten there through a mixed perennial seed packet.
Cheers
looks like mint
hold it up to the screen and we can smell it !!!