THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Capture Carbon In Your Garden is the title of our 2017 Chelsea Fringe project.
To help you find all the information you need about it, check out these links below:
Capture Carbon In Your Garden – explaining the project.
5 Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Capture Carbon In Your Garden – the infographic!
Ditch The Power Tools – a favourite blog post!
Dalefoot Composts – Peat Free compost on the TV.
Have You Tried A Cycling Gardener?
One Tree Planted, For Every Purchase In June – THIS IS IMPORTANT!
Update: Plant A Tree In The Modern Mint Grove – 152 & Counting!
There you have it then, our handy pillar post to guide you on making your garden a carbon sink.
Good luck!
For my topiary work, see here…
Box Hill – Novella by Adam Mars-Jones
I picked this book up back in 2020 because of the title – Box Hill – fabulous, I thought, a book about boxwood. I’ll peruse this for its respective thoughts on the plant I clip most when I make topiary. I didn’t read the blurb on the back. Didn’t know the author (although I knew the publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, as I love many of the essays they have published… so trusted the author would be worth spending time with.) By page 2 I realised this novel wasn’t quite what I had expected. I started the book at 10pm, after getting …
The Henderson, Topiary Art Interview on Instagram
In a suit… eek! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Henderson (@thehenderson_hk)
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….! …