or you brush along a mint plant in a grocery store, both the fragrance and flavor will bring you to both a soothing and fresh place. How lovely would it be to make a cup of fresh mint leaf tea?

Among them, for example, was a $470,000 grant to study the evolution of mint plants and how they spread across continents. As best we can tell, the project ran into trouble with Republicans on the ...

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Water gently. If using young mint plants, dig a small hole in the soil that is large enough to accommodate the plant's root ball. Place the plant in the hole and cover it with soil, firming it ...

Essential oil can be extracted from the leaves and used as a flavouring. Mint plants possess erect, branching stems and oblong to ovate or lanceolate leaves arranged in opposing pairs on the stems.

Basil plants grow best under spring temperatures that are warm due to their preference for pot cultivation. The fragrant ...

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While working in war-torn Mosul, Iraq, in 2017, Canadian nurse Trish Newport developed an unlikely friendship with Mahmoud – a local man who carried a mint plant with him wherever he went.