THE MODERN MINT BLOG

May31

Further Reading For ‘Capture Carbon In Your Garden’

Capture Carbon In Your Garden is the title of our 2017 Chelsea Fringe project.

To help you find all the information you need about it, check out these links below:

Capture Carbon In Your Garden – explaining the project.

5 Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Capture Carbon In Your Garden – the infographic!

Ditch The Power Tools – a favourite blog post!

Who Has Inspired Our Project?

My Country Is Carbon Negative

Use Less Fossil Fuels

Dalefoot Composts – Peat Free compost on the TV.

Have You Tried A Cycling Gardener?

50 Shades of Sustainability 

Buy Once, Buy Well

One Tree Planted, For Every Purchase In June – THIS IS IMPORTANT!

Update: Plant A Tree In The Modern Mint Grove – 152 & Counting!

There you have it then, our handy pillar post to guide you on making your garden a carbon sink.

Good luck!

For my topiary work, see here…

Apr16

EBTS Boxwood Growers Forum

Through the European Boxwood and Topiary Society I worked with Chris Poole and Sue Mesher, members of the EBTS board, and we set up a Boxwood Growers Forum. This was to discuss how to make sure this wonderful topiary plant stays in the public conscioussness – we know many growers, suppliers and distributors have stopped selling it as the cost of replacing boxwood that has blight, or is nibbled by the boxwood caterpillar, makes it unviable to offer to clients and gardeners. But Boxwood is a phoenix plant, and there are ways to deal with the problems associated with Buxus. …

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Apr15

Modern Topiarist @ Garden Masterclass Poland

My video on Modern Topiary for Garden Masterclass has been translated into Polish, for the keen gardeners (and happy pruners!) of Garedn Masterclass in Poland. Tickets for the first showing and q and a were available here. But it will become available on the Garden Masterclass Poland website at some point in the near future – so if you are a keen clipper and want to know more, but speak Polish and not English, then I suggest you visit the website and get watching. (Of course, if you don’t speak English, you may not be able to read this…. hmmm… …

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Apr15

Topiary Hotline

The European Boxwood & Topiary Society are to run a Topiary Hotline for keen gardeners and people who love to clip. Date is tomorrow, April 16th 2024, and you can get a ticket for the Zoom meeting here – Topiary Hotline. Run by Chris Poole and myself, we set this up as an antidote to the huge amount of questions we have to answer about topiary throughout the summer. The plus is that their is an excitement around topiary and pruning. The problem is we need to help people in a better way… … so we will be giving people …

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