THE MODERN MINT BLOG
What do I do with this space? A question clients often ask us, a question we often ask ourselves. So …
Chelsea Fringe 2015 – Call for Authors
We are looking for garden writers to take part in a Modern Mint project for the Chelsea Fringe Festival in 2015. What Is the Project? The project is called ‘Contemporary Green: How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ It is a free to download, free to share, free to print book co-authored by garden writers like you. What Do You Need To Do? Write a 100 word ‘manifesto’ answering the question ‘How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ The question can be answered however you see fit – literally, philosophically, with an environmental bent, from a cynical worldview – the choice is …
Let Them Run Wild!
This is a guest post from the lovely garden writer Mary Hamblyn of Brookend Cottage Garden. You can also follow her here on Twitter. We are delighted that she has written a guest post for us on why children should have some wild areas in the garden. Let them run wild! For a few scary minutes this summer I lost my three year old daughter. We’d been pottering outside one minute, and she was gone the next. I scoured the garden, then the house, then the garden again. She’s quite sensible, so I was pretty sure she wouldn’t have wandered off by herself. And …
Plants for Seaside Gardens
Seaside gardens are fascinating and here at Modern Mint Garden Design we cannot wait for our first commission to work on a garden by the sea. In preparation for that moment we are trying to learn all we can about the plants that can cope with living by the seaside. Below is a document Plantlife have put together that gives great information and pictures on seaside wildflowers – easy to print off and take with you while walking along the coast too! We recently visited the West coast of Ireland to take a look at the landscape there – we saw …