THE MODERN MINT BLOG
This picture was taken by Simon from South East Essex Organic Gardeners… he said, “(if you) haven’t seen it, there …
Most Popular Posts (from our first 6 months)
Modern Mint has now been blogging for six months, give or take a week. What then have been the most read blogs so far? These below… the top post also being the most fun to write… Top Post! An Interview with Rosybee – nurserywoman and beekeeper shares her research on the most bee valuable plants. Second Best! Golden Rules of Planting – Val Bourne shares her wisdom. The Next Second Best! Chelsea Fringe – this post from the second week of our Chelsea Fringe project, as the peony from Italy began to open. Thank you for coming to read, and we hope …
Seedballs
Here at Modern Mint we have now opened our webshop. What has the distinction of being our first ever product for sale? Seedballs! What are Seedballs? They are a little ball of clay and compost. This little ball then creates perfect conditions for the seeds that are also in the ball of clay to germinate. It is a permaculture technique that we first read about in this book… … we no longer have a copy as we gave ours to a Parisian theatre director about 5 years ago, in the hope they would turn it into a show. That has …
Nigel Colborn
We wrote last week about the book Gardens of Inspiration. In it, Nigel Colborn wrote an essay about gardens that have influenced him. W want to quote him further today – as we are currently designing a woodland garden and… well, he wrote beautifully about it here… “Species that enjoy similar ecologies will almost always look good together… a natural piece of North American woodland, for example, would boast trilliums and smilacina; in Europe, solomons seal and hellebores might occupy the same niche; and in Asia these might be replaced by meconopsis and epimediums. But in a garden, it is …