What is Australian mint plant?

The Australian Mint Bush is a unique and fragrant evergreen plant hailing from Australia where it’s known as Native Mint. This highly ornamental plant is appreciated for its boxy, dark green foliage and its orchid like flowers that loftily adorn the entire bush throughout the spring.

Can you eat Australian native mint?

Type of native mint once used as a medicinal herb, but now more commonly features in cooking and herbal teas, it can be easily dried out at home for seasoning in cooking.

How do Australian mint bushes grow?

Grow Australian mint bush in a full sun, sheltered site with excellent drainage. It grows well on sand and clay soils but doesn’t tolerate chalk. Water regularly so that the soil never dries out, but isn’t sodden. The shrub’s water needs will reduce in winter when it stops growing.

Is there a mint bush?

Mint shrub is also known as Chinese mint shrub. There are about 40 different species of mint shrub plants growing in the wild. The most popular variety for home gardens has attractive 4- to 6-inch (10 to 15 cm.) spiky blossoms in beautiful shades of purple and lavender.

How do you prune a Australian mint bush?

Mint bushes should be pruned back by about one third after flowering to maintain a bushy habit. Mint bushes often wilt noticeably when moisture is lacking in a garden. They are excellent “indicator” plants because of this.

What is Mint Bush good for?

Mint’s health benefits range from improving brain function and digestive symptoms to relieving breastfeeding pain, cold symptoms and even bad breath. You really can’t go wrong adding some mint to your diet.

Where is Bush mint native to?

Australia
Bush Mint (one of several Australian species sometimes referred to as “Native Pennyroyal”) is a clumping, perennial groundcover herb, about midway between English peppermint and exotic pennyroyal. It is native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

How do you propagate Australian mint?

Cuttings. Most shrubby members of the Lamiaceae strike readily from cuttings using hardened, current season’s growth. Cuttings about 75-100 mm in length with the leaves carefully removed from the lower two-thirds seem to be satisfactory.

How do you grow mint bushes?

For growing outdoors, plant one or two purchased plants (or one or two cuttings from a friend) about 2 feet apart in moist soil. One or two plants will easily cover the ground. Mint should grow to be 1 or 2 feet tall.

How tall does mint bush grow?

Prostanthera ‘Minty’ Native – Mint Bush