THE MODERN MINT BLOG
With the European Boxwood and Topiary Society, I run two workshops each year at Waltham Place, one of my favourite gardens.
The next topiary workshop there will be on Friday September 4th 2026.
Details and how to book yet to be announced, but get in touch with them now to get on the waiting list, as last year we had double the amount of people wanting a place than we had space for.
The Waltham Place website is here – topiary workshop 2026.
See the teaching page for how else I can help you with the topiary in your garden – a free video, a video you have to pay for, a book (I’m still formatting the book alright! I get you want it out and email me asking when, but it just takes forever to get the margins and stuff right and I’m busy actually making topiary so it gets put back… and back.. and back.. but it is coming! It is!) and an option for private tuition.
So if you can’t get to Waltham Place September 4th 2026 then see the Teaching page for more ideas how I can help you.
Why I Wrote The Book Modern Topiary
I have written this book, Modern Topiary, because I wanted a collation of useful information that would give people access to everything they need to know in order to start making topiary. Topiary is an amazing (and niche) line of work to follow – amazing because it offers up opportunities to travel all over the world, making gardens, meeting people… but also, the work is intensely physical, hands-on, yet requires creative thinking in order to solve the puzzle of how to make the shapes you want. This mixture of the craft and the art is what I love the most …
Buxus the Norfolk Terrier In Modern Topiary Book
This is Buxus, our Norfolk Terrier, who I acknowledge in the acknowledgments of the book of Modern Topiary. The book of Modern Topiary can be read, for free, here. There you go. Buxus the dog on ‘doorstep duty’ at a friend’s house in Edinburgh. For those asking what he looked like!
What People Think Of Modern Topiary, The Book
Yesterday I put out the book – Modern Topiary – that I have spent the last six years writing. Download for free a pdf of Modern Topiary here. And what seems amazing to me, is that not only have people actually been reading it, but then responding to it. So below are a number of comments I have been sent from those who read it last night, and this morning…. “Brilliant read, exactly the right amount of info to take in and digest.” Rachel, a gardener “I love your book, the advice is so straightforward and your writing is so …