Water mint
Mentha aquatica
In Dutch: Watermunt
PerennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 0.3 to 0.9 m
- Spread
- 0.5 to 1 m per clump
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Wet and rich in nutrients, preferably clay or loam
- Water
- Plenty: it can stand in shallow water
- Maintenance
- Average: keep the runners in check
- Flowers
- July to November, lilac
- For bees
- Yes: nectar and pollen, July to September
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop: the plant dies back above ground in winter
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €3.50 to €4.99 each, in a small nursery pot
- Price, grown
- About €9.75 to €9.94 each, in a pond basket, sometimes only in lots of 3
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to November
- Flower
- July to November
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit