Mint in herb garden

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If I plant different mints in a herb garden eill that cause problems? And are there better/worse herb pairings?

I bought loads yesterday since my local nursery is closing down.

I have:
garden mint
apple mint
variegated mint
peppermint

then:

common thyme
Golden thyme
oregano
curry plant
basil
common sage
garlic chives
Bronze fennel

other than putting them where they look pretty I’m struggling as to where to start.

they will be in raised beds near to the kitchen. Should I restrict the roots of the mint somehow? Maybe plant in large pots and then sink these into the raised bed?

So glad to find this thread. I know nothing about gardening but I'm learning. My mint is so dominant I'm going to need to move to its own pot, it's with basil and parsley at the moment. I have a suntrap balcony and everything is out of control growth rates. My tomatoes have gone to 6ft in 4 weeks!

Thanks to whoever posed the herb website up thread I've got some exciting ones arriving!

Pineapple sage. Wonderful smell & bright red flowers.

Borage - lovely blue flowers.

I'm so envious of you buying up all these bargain plants!

I had a lovely marjoram lawn as one corner of the front garden. One night it completely disappeared - I suspect wandering deer (we have them as visitors).

@Babdoc I've had basil mint in a big old ugly thick plastic pot in home made compost mixed with soil for 5 years now. Waiting for it to burst out but so far it's contained & have donated cuttings. Bloomin' lemon balm invaded our garden from somewhere & I stupidly left it as thought it was divine & it's taking over. I've dug out roots but it's prolific. I bubble wrap my herbs & they survive winter well. (Not lemon balm, that fckr would survive a nuclear bomb).

😯 there's a mint variety called lime mint?? mojitos all around!

Echo everyone else, mint only in sturdy pots.
My lemon verbena is a bit sad this year, which is a shame as DS really got a taste for it as tea last year. Everything else is growing like crazy, I'm going to have to prune back very hard. My favourite this year is the golden marjoram which has made a lovely golden clump on the edge of my new rockery.
I also added some pinks among the herbs this year for colour and they have been surprisingly successful and long lasting.
I love my herb garden, a PP reminds me about borage, which my mum always grew, think I'll add some of that next year, great for the bees too.
Nastursium (sp?) is a very attractive addition too, but is also thuggish, so needs a lot of space. Attracts the cabbage whites (which may or may not be a good thing)

If you like scented plants, try scented geraniums/pelargoniums. There's a gorgeous mint-scented one called pelargonium tomentosum, which has big, soft, almost furry leaves & tiny white flowers. You can take cuttings from the stems.

Apple mint makes the absolute best fresh mint tea.

Pelargonium Attar of Roses is my favourite of the scented ones. It's ridiculously easy to propagate, just stick prunings in a glass of water or poke into the dirt where it'll be growing and keep damp.

This sounds exactly like my herb garden including the toad!

As others have said mint will take over if you let it, we also inherited some lemon balm which is from the mint family which overran a corner of the garden and I don't like it but it's so far evaded all attempts to dig it out.
I have mint in a window box planters either side rod my front door, my sage is 25yrs old and has survived 3 house moves (dug up and replanted each time.
Thyme always seems to succumb to the heat and me forgetting to water it however I usually have at least 2 varieties but I have a very successful semi neglected oregano. Basil is extremely thirsty so I tend to find it does better on the windowsill by the sink so it gets watered every day.
Chives are great and very pretty when they go to seed. My Rosemary plant is another grand dame having travelled with us in a large planter for the past 20yrs.
My camomile only lasted one year unfortunately it was a lovely plant.

I've got some scented pelargoniums which originate in a plant I bought before DD was born... shes 23 now.

I've not tried lemon verbena for a long time, I had one when I lived in Yorkshire but it didn't survive the winter. Should they be able to survive a bit of frost or maybe I should try to overwinter in a cold frame or indoors if I get one?