Variegated Peppermint [Rooted Cutting]

Description

(Mentha piperita ‘Variegata’)

Rooted cutting of variegated peppermint. For preorder and shipped in late May.

Mentioned as early as 1849 as ‘striped peppermint’ in the publication, ‘The Cottage Gardener; Or Amateur and Cottager’s Guide to Out-door Gardening and Spade Cultivation, Volume 1’ by George W. Johnson.

In 1861 it receives mention from Edward Joseph Lowe and W. Howard as a desirable hardy variegated plant in ‘Beautiful Leaved Plants … to which is Added an Extended Catalogue’.

Hardy down to zone 4a-5