Wednesday, June 11, 2008

mints


I'm thrilled! The mints have survived. That is the mints that our friends in Hampshire gave us when we visited them last summer. The mints traveled to Finland through various places including Guildford, Cambridge and Nottingham and they were still alive when we arrived home more than a week after they had been taken from our friends' garden.

I planted the mints to a very temporary place last summer since I had no herb garden yet. They lived through the summer and outlived all the weeds around them.

This spring I started to look for them. The pineapple mint I could easily find since it looks a little different from the other plants around the place. But I couldn't find the regular mint. I thought it should have been hardier than the pineapple mint but I just couldn't find it so I thought it had died.

Sometimes I sensed the sweet smell of mint in my nose but since I couldn't find anything on the ground I thought I'd been mistaken. Tonight when I started to water the rows I had just seeded I sensed the smell again. And I found the mint, next to the apple tree where I had looked for it before, on my way to the water container. The mint looked superb and very much grown so I don't understand how I can have missed it earlier.

Now the mints are both planted in a better place where they hopefully will grow well. Maybe I should start worrying more about them growing too well...

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

summer morning

 

a bright summer morning up on the hill behind the house