Just as the rest of my environment looks like this…
The mint in my yard looks like this…
We’ve had freezes and floods and every kind of inclement weather. The world is shrouded in winter gray, but still the mint thrives. You can’t kill it. Pull it up by the roots, and it grows right back. When giant asteroids hit the earth and kill us all, the mint will be popping up through the rubble. At least the roaches will have something to eat.
At another house, in another marriage, we planted mint in our garden. Even after we built a garage over the garden, the mint continued to shoot out into the rest of the yard. It’s like kudzu, only tastier.