THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Estudio Caruncho is the garden design studio of one of our favourite garden designers, the Spaniard Fernando Caruncho. Minimalist rather …
Fernando Caruncho – Temporal Cosmic Garden
A few years back now we wrote about Fernando Caruncho, the Madrid based garden designer known for his minimalist, evergreen planting designs and spaces shaped by geometry. His work has always fascinated us, the sense of calm and unity that pervades the gardens he creates. He speaks poetically about his work too, at times almost in riddles, philosophising about gardens as landscapes of paradise, that purvey atmospheres of stillness that seem at odds with our contemporary ‘constantly on’ lifestyle. Caruncho’s Contrast Between Words and Garden Style It is a strange contrast in his work – expressing himself through plants and …
Oneness – Learning To Live With Other People
This short, 4 minute film is about Yui and Takaharu Tezuka – a Japanese family who live in one room. Well worth a watch! Not only does it suggest that this type of communal living prepares you better for living with other people, learning to get along, but it showcases some fun ideas for how to make create separate areas within a room We also love how they have captured the light – the main window looks North, so they have ‘stepped’ the roof down on the South side and placed windows there, which allows in more light and more heat, while …
Growing Botanicals in Hampshire
How do you grow Cassia in the UK? You have to make it up as you go along…. We have found a lovely, short interview about growing the botanicals for Bombay Sapphire Gin in 2 glasshouses in Hampshire (near where we learnt to garden just outside Basingstoke!) According to the gardener Chris Cottrell, who runs the glasshouses at Laverstoke Mill, the only other place in the country that is growing cassia is Kew, so when it starts to look unhealthy there are not a lot of places to turn for advice. It is the bark of the cassia tree that …