Stumbled across this ginormous Mountain Shrub Mint at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I’m gonna try to get the wife to plant some in the garden. Don’t think it’s edible tho.

// Alt Text: A picture of a large plant with opposing pairs of leaves. The shaka hand gesture on the left side of the pic for scale seems to indicate that the plant is approximately two shakas wide, maybe more…

  • bayportOP
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    1 year ago

    Ha! Nice. It is pretty aggressive spreading. In addition to the minty breath, my wife tells me it is also a good deterrent for mice. She put some in front of corner of our garage where we were finding mice getting in. It seems to work for that location