Garden Plant: Mountain Mint
Mountain Mint
Product Description: Mountain Mint
Perky Native Perennial Smells Minty Fresh!
If you are serious about using integrated pest management to protect your food crops, You’ll want to create a pollinator garden to bring beneficial insects into your yard.
Your local honeybees also love the purple-spots on the white flowers of native Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum). Feel good about using this important native perennial in your garden or backyard homestead.
This finely-textured native plant is a member of the mint family, so you might want to consider devoting a large container, such as a whiskey barrel, to this plant where it can create a helpful colony for you.
Otherwise, you should consider this a wide-spreading groundcover plant under larger shrubs or trees, or plan to use in a meadow setting.
It’s cute as a button, and very aromatic with minty fresh leaves. It’s sure to get a lot of traffic from local pollinators, such as honey bees, bumble bees, mason bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.
In some areas, this native plant actually does a little “too well”, but don’t worry we use Plant Sentry to follow all local, state and federal regulations for plants that can become invasive in your area.
- White Blooms with Purple Spots
- Brings Bees, Pollinators and Butterflies
- Easy Care