THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Partners
We work with a number of other businesses that can help provide us with the items you want. We are a resource for gardening, after all…
For plants we we work with Jersey Plants Direct – they also offer free delivery on plants and we like that.
Cut flower queries allow us to send you to the Queen of the home grown flower growers art, Sarah Raven. Use this resource she provides!
For gardening books where better is there to go than Amazon
For the computer we use we have partnered to work with Panda Security UK because you need anti-virus software to protect what you create.
For garden products we work with Garden Trading, Harrod Horticultural and Agriframes (who do frames for the garden, of course…)
Anything to do with ponds go to Pondkeeper.
Mowers and lawn care products can be found here at Rolawn, Lawn Mowers UK and Mow Direct.
For ecologically considered products we use Natural Collection. Please change how you shop and use them to.
You have to eat well – gardening burns a lot of calories – so do buy your food from Donald Russell and Pong Cheese. Yum!
Love Lula? We do, as they offer something unusual – vegan products. Our vegan friends need caring for to…
Home and office need a design spruce up? Try the fabulous Royal Design.
When you’re tired from a long day in the garden, we offer you a cup of tea… and a piece of chocolate!
And finally we partner with LED Hut for lighting…
Do make the most of these companies and use what they are offering!
Topiary, The Art Garden at The Henderson
The Art Garden at The Henderson in Hong-Kong has now opened to the public. I joined the project last March, to work with Gillespies Landscape Architects on the topiary that had been designed for the Art Garden, which gives a calm, green space below the extraordinary Henderson skyscraper designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The garden has been designed with butterflies in mind, so lots of nectar plants, and has other art projects and installations within its footprint. The history of the site is interesting too – it was originally the first cricket ground in Hong-Kong! So still a green space….! …
ClipFest 2025
On Sunday June 22nd there will be Clipfest 2025 at Ichi-Coo Park in Surrey. It is a celebration of all things pruning and topiary, and I will be there in my capacity of teacher at the European Boxwood and Topiary Society to demonstrate tool cleaning and sharpening, and how to clip. Tickets can be found here on Eventbrite. We are hoping for great weather and to see lots of keen pruners getting their shears out and joining us at this amazing garden! And for more on topiary…
Secateur Holders
A present arrived from Norway today, from a student who visited last February to work with Chris Poole and I on learning topiary. His new hobby – a beautiful and neatly stitched secateur holder. Thrilled with this! The holder will save me keep losing my secatuers too…! Thank you Bernt! It was the same student who introduced me to the APA with whom I am doing a talk at the end of March. Tickets can be bought here for ‘Defining The Essence – Aesthetic Pruning in the Garden’. Do join the European Boxwood and Topiary Society for that!