THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Spirit: Dan Pearson
Why Should You Buy Spirit: Garden Inspiration By Dan Pearson? Because it is by Dan Pearson, who designs beautiful gardens and …
Growing Fruit
Growing fruit is ideal when you want your own produce. It is low maintenance, tastes great and because you are growing it yourself you can choose varieties you just won’t get in the shops. The best place to start is to read Joan Morgan’s Fruit Forum. We only recently discovered it when we saw a blog post asking ‘Where Have All The English Cherries Gone?’ after buying the tastiest, freshest cherries we have ever eaten and wanting to know more about British fruit. (Essex, where we now run our garden design studio from, was always a big fruit producing county and apparently …
Garden Design Trends
At the start of the year Gardens Illustrated gave over a few pages to garden designers to say what they thought garden design trends would be in 2014. Not all are trends, some are just ideas. But what good ideas… Give more help to the people who have to maintain the garden. (Very important! The designer may have the input to get the garden going, but what happens next? The act of garden design is a continual process and the gardener must be involved from day one…!) Large planters – as big as possible. (Absolutely. The more container gardening we do, the more …
Gardening Jobs August
What are the gardening jobs to do in August? 1) Make hay while the sun shines (you can always do this by scything…) 2) Prune wisteria. 3) Deadhead your dahlias. 4) Be water-wise (don’t water your lawn, use harvested rainwater instead of tap water. If you haven’t harvested any rainwater, try somewhere like Harrod Horticultural for ideas.) 5) Start thinking about ordering bulbs for planting in Autumn – we are doing a garden design in Upminster, Essex at the moment and will be adding lots of daffodils – cannot wait! 6) Use up your courgettes – put them in chocolate cake, barbeque them, …