3 varieties — 3 bare root plants per variety (9 plants total)
Field grown in Brattleboro, Vermont
Each variety labeled separately, mailed in moist medium
Three mints that don't taste alike, don't look alike, and are all genuinely easy to grow. This is the pack we'd hand someone who's never grown mint before — or someone who's only ever grown the grocery-store kind and doesn't know what they're missing yet.
Apple mint is the gentle one: soft, slightly fuzzy leaves and a mild sweetness that works in tea without overpowering it.
Pineapple mint is the showpiece — bright white-edged variegated leaves with a tropical-sweet scent, good enough looking to plant purely for the color.
Chocolate mint is the one people don't believe until they smell it: dark glossy leaves and a real chocolate-mint aroma that earns its name in tea, in baking, or over ice cream.
Together they cover mild, fruity, and dessert — enough range to actually use, without so many varieties that they blur together.
Quick Facts
Includes: Apple mint, Pineapple mint, Chocolate mint (6 plants each)
Botanical names:Mentha suaveolens · M. suaveolens 'Variegata' · M. × piperita 'Chocolate'
Flavor / Scent: Mild sweet · tropical-sweet · chocolate-peppermint
Best for: Tea, baking, desserts, containers, gifts, first-time growers
USDA Zones: 5–9
Light: Full sun to part shade
Height: 12–24 in
Spread: Vigorous via rhizome — container planting recommended
Of Interest
This trio spans both major branches of garden mint. Apple mint and pineapple mint are the same species — pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata') is a variegated cultivar of apple mint, its white leaf margins caused by a stable mutation that suppresses chlorophyll in parts of the leaf tissue. That's why the two smell related but look nothing alike, and why pineapple mint has to be propagated by division rather than seed; seedlings won't reliably inherit the variegation.
Chocolate mint comes from an entirely different lineage: Mentha × piperita, itself a natural hybrid of watermint and spearmint first documented in England in the 1690s. Its chocolate character isn't flavoring — it's a specific ratio of menthol to menthyl acetate that the human nose maps onto chocolate, the same quirk of perception that makes chocolate cosmos and chocolate dahlias smell the way they do.
Source: Missouri Botanical Garden — Mentha suaveolens | RHS — Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata' | Kew — Mentha × piperita
3 varieties — 3 bare root plants per variety (9 plants total)
Field grown in Brattleboro, Vermont
Each variety labeled separately, mailed in moist medium
Three mints that don't taste alike, don't look alike, and are all genuinely easy to grow. This is the pack we'd hand someone who's never grown mint before — or someone who's only ever grown the grocery-store kind and doesn't know what they're missing yet.
Apple mint is the gentle one: soft, slightly fuzzy leaves and a mild sweetness that works in tea without overpowering it.
Pineapple mint is the showpiece — bright white-edged variegated leaves with a tropical-sweet scent, good enough looking to plant purely for the color.
Chocolate mint is the one people don't believe until they smell it: dark glossy leaves and a real chocolate-mint aroma that earns its name in tea, in baking, or over ice cream.
Together they cover mild, fruity, and dessert — enough range to actually use, without so many varieties that they blur together.
Quick Facts
Includes: Apple mint, Pineapple mint, Chocolate mint (6 plants each)
Botanical names:Mentha suaveolens · M. suaveolens 'Variegata' · M. × piperita 'Chocolate'
Flavor / Scent: Mild sweet · tropical-sweet · chocolate-peppermint
Best for: Tea, baking, desserts, containers, gifts, first-time growers
USDA Zones: 5–9
Light: Full sun to part shade
Height: 12–24 in
Spread: Vigorous via rhizome — container planting recommended
Of Interest
This trio spans both major branches of garden mint. Apple mint and pineapple mint are the same species — pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata') is a variegated cultivar of apple mint, its white leaf margins caused by a stable mutation that suppresses chlorophyll in parts of the leaf tissue. That's why the two smell related but look nothing alike, and why pineapple mint has to be propagated by division rather than seed; seedlings won't reliably inherit the variegation.
Chocolate mint comes from an entirely different lineage: Mentha × piperita, itself a natural hybrid of watermint and spearmint first documented in England in the 1690s. Its chocolate character isn't flavoring — it's a specific ratio of menthol to menthyl acetate that the human nose maps onto chocolate, the same quirk of perception that makes chocolate cosmos and chocolate dahlias smell the way they do.
Source: Missouri Botanical Garden — Mentha suaveolens | RHS — Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata' | Kew — Mentha × piperita
