THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Gilding the Lily by Amy Stewart is about the cut flower industry. It is a brilliant book, making you question the role …
Modern Mint Shop
Modern Mint Garden Design has been up and running for almost 8 months now. As well as Garden Design services we also want Modern Mint to be a place to go to for interesting articles, garden knowledge AND we want to share with you in our shop products we love – products that are unusual, fun, sustainable and beautiful. We want to promote people and organisations that produce items based on their own individual creativity (check out this great arm chair), locally sourced or artisanal products (this from the potteries in Stoke on Trent, mugs to make you laugh), … and …
Modern Mint Environment
As a garden design company we at Modern Mint are always thinking about our relationship to the natural environment. We read writers like George Monbiot, Richard Mabey and Mark Lynas. We try to use our vehicles and power tools as little as possible. And we try very hard to educate clients in how to reduce their use of chemicals in the garden. But just how far can you go to ‘help the environment’ while living in UK society in 2014? Because to fit in, to live in anyway at all, requires you to consume – whether it is fuel, food with sugar …
Mother Teresa
An unusual blog post today as we wanted to write about Mother Teresa. Recently we have been reading the book No Greater Love… …and found ourselves making lots of notes from it. Though not strictly a gardening book we share with you below some of the ideas Mother Teresa has written in the book, and (hopefully) find in her words a tenuous link to gardening by the end. What made us pick up this book and start reading? It is Autumn, a time for dreaming and reflection. We were searching for something calm and ordered to help influence our own …