THE MODERN MINT BLOG
This is an interview with Richard from Essex Bees. We did this partly as a follow up to the interview …
Landscaper Essex
Landscaper Essex? Here are photos from a project Modern Mint have been working on over the last few years – do contact us if you want to chat about how we, as a garden designer or landscaper, can help you with your garden. Alternating cherries and apples along a serpentine wall of this long driveway helps to soften the landscaping… Low maintenance planting against the house to repalce a rose that had died. Ceanothus will grow taller to add a better sense of scale and interest to the wall. Check out the rosebay in flower over the wall – nightmare weeding the seeds that land …
Unusual Vegetable Garden
Yesterday Modern Mint were sent these photos of an unusual vegetable garden, from a reader of the blog in Oxford. We wanted to share these pictures with you as we think the idea is absolutely wonderful…! This is what she had to say… “We harvested the first courgettes last week and the first tomatoes can be seen on the vine! First handful of beans were harvested yesterday! This is so so great – and we got everything for free, scavenging in skips and on the roadside! Hope your well and keep up the great site and the super blog. Really enjoy …
Scything
We at Modern Mint had a lesson in scything the other day when visiting Waltham Place. Here are 9 things we learnt… 1) It is normal to scythe without your shoes on (it is near impossible to cut your own foot, though very easy to cut your hand when cleaning or sharpening the blade…!) 2) English scythes have curves, Austrian scythes less so, and Eastern European scythes are straight. There are also lightweight scythes from the USA made of aluminium. These seemed to divide opinion between love and hate. 3) You know you are scything well when you hear a swuuushh… …