Corsican Mint

[mogs]

Does anyone know where I can buy seeds of the above? I'm filling in some cracks in paving stones on the lottie and whilst I can easily find creeping thyme, struggling with corsican mint seeds. Can get the plants, but as a large area would be too costly.

[Two_Sheds]

A quick Google hasn't thrown up any seed suppliers, but as mint is easier to propagate from cuttings than seed, why don't you spend a few quid on plants and take your own cuttings from them?

[Jeanied]

I struck out, the same as Two Sheds - the corsican mint is the little teeny tiny cushion forming kind, isn't it?
If you want to find the plant, Jekka's herb farm is probably a good place to start.

[mogs]

Thanks Two Sheds and Jeanied

Yes I've done the Google thing, but no seeds, I think like TS suggested I'll splash out on a few plants and take cuttings to allow them to go forth and multiply! Do you just cut off a shoot and plant in compost to root?

[Jeanied]

Hi Mogs - I've tried to find a link to propagating corsican mint but found nothing specific. You could try rooting cuttings in water. The best advice seems to be to divide the plant and wait for it to start spreading. It is less invasive than the other varieties of mint, and it likes to be kept on the moist side.

[sarraceniac]

Corsican mint appears, on a Google, to be not a culinary mint, in fact one or two sites say do not cook with it. It has a smell of creme de menthe when you crush it and is used rather like chamomile, as a perfumed lawn, or between stones and paving slabs. It does not send out root runners like most mints so is very, very difficult (i.e. next to impossible) to grow from cuttings. The usual way to propagate is from root division because seed is also difficult. As you say, it is possible to buy plants but they are very expensive. Chamomile anybody?

[Ryan Wain]

Dobbies

I found a Corsican Mint at Dobbies garden centre for only £2.49, its not expensive in the UK

[clod]

corsican mint

I bought a plant of this at a market once and found it easy to divide - before long you'll have as many as you want!

For planting into paving cracks I planted divisions spaced evenly in a large seed tray. Once it was full and established I took it out of tray in one, and cut thin strips off with kitchen scissors - the width of the cracks. These were easy to pkant and though they need water at first they're maintenance free afterwards. They're not long-lived, but seed themselves freely into the paving and any pots standing on the paving.

Smells great as you potter about, and I think it's pretty too.

Good luck!

[whiskyman]

When the best time to divide the corsican mint.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Just tell yourself you can do it any time (Course I can). . If it's as tough as other mints, you should be able to do it whenever you feel like it.

[purplekat]

I know this is an oldish thread but if anyone's interested then propagation info and some suppliers are on here
Mentha requienii Corsican Mint, Mint PFAF Plant Database

Seeds from Kings seeds
https://www.kingsseeds.com/Products/...a-requienii%29

It's nowhere near as hardy as other mints. I planted some in Yorkshire and it did well for one year but died over winter (was quite a harsh snowy one a few years back). It was in quite a wet shady corner though