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As noted recently plug plants are effective and economical if you are willing to play the long game. These are Lesser Calamint (Calamintha nepata), exceptionally good value at 10 for £15.50 including delivery- in fact there were 11 in the box so even better! Moreover these arrived as tough little specimens (probably divisions) rather than tender seedlings. These were ready to plant out plus several I potted up position tbc in the spring. It's a great little plant for well drained soil in sun and flowers profusely late summer/early autumn, much visited by pollinators. [see entry dated 26th. September 2022] I had always assumed it to be a Mediterranean species; indeed its range covers Europe, North West Africa, North Turkey and Ukraine. However I learned recently it is also indigenous to the UK. Beth Chatto's website describes it as "a very scarce British native found primarily on the sandy and gravel ridges of northeast Essex: it could therefore be justifiably seen as the native…

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