Mentha spicata We have discovered that there is a peculiar history to our "English Garden": one of our predecessors installed a beautiful garden among reddish bricks, while another has installed a raised bed atop it. We think the original layout was on the whole better thought out, although there was some intelligence also applied to the raised bed. However, most of the surviving plants are in peculiar locations, and many of the more interesting ones are rooted at the lower level in any case. It's hard to know where to begin with the census of our amazing biodiversity on our little corner plot, but it is clear that some archaeology is necessary in the formerly sunken, later raised garden. Although we have some spectacularly beautiful and strange plants I'd also like to proceed to understand all the more mundane plants, and will take them up in the order we attend to them. The mint in the corner of the English Garden is vigourous and plentiful, and Irene is intent on p
