THE MODERN MINT BLOG
This is a review of John Walker’s new book ‘Digging Deep in the Garden’, out now on Amazon… or it can …
99 Flowers Project
We do like a project here at Modern Mint, and 99 Flowers is our new one. The 99 Flowers Project is being run by Stefano of Modern Mint, and over the next 99 days Stefano will be creating 99 portraits of flowers, bringing a touch of the art and illustration world to the ephemeral beauty of flowers. Will you be able to identify each flower? Each new flower will be uploaded on to our Pinterest Page daily and Stefano’s illustrations can also be followed on Facebook and Twitter. We hope you enjoy seeing a new flower each day! The first few …
Buy Once, Buy Well
When you run a business, you get asked a lot (by other business people) who your ‘target customers’ are – simply, which group of people will buy from you? Labelling a group who share certain characteristics in this way helps you target the customers that will like your products. We do the same with garden plants – we can identify certain flowers by knowing something about the family. For example, you may be able to tell that Geum is in the family Rosaceae because of the shape of the flower, a shape which members of the Rose family have in common. Learning that …
Kavalier and Clay
This is an extended quote from a Michael Chabon book, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – it is a wonderful narrative about two cousins who write comic books during the second world war. We read the book many years ago, and have recently revisited it (when we ask why we chose to read it again, it is difficult to work out… we would never read Ulysses again, because it felt long and arduous.This book did too, in places, the first time we read it. But it did keep calling from the bookshelf. We think the reason we chose to read …