THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Seedballs
Here at Modern Mint we have now opened our webshop. What has the distinction of being our first ever product …
Nigel Colborn
We wrote last week about the book Gardens of Inspiration. In it, Nigel Colborn wrote an essay about gardens that have influenced him. W want to quote him further today – as we are currently designing a woodland garden and… well, he wrote beautifully about it here… “Species that enjoy similar ecologies will almost always look good together… a natural piece of North American woodland, for example, would boast trilliums and smilacina; in Europe, solomons seal and hellebores might occupy the same niche; and in Asia these might be replaced by meconopsis and epimediums. But in a garden, it is …
Do We Need Pandas? by Ken Thompson
This book – Do We Need Pandas – is one of our favourite Ken Thompson books (the other is No Nettles Required: The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardening). Do We Need Pandas is witty and light enough in style that the depressing information you are given does not prevent you from reading it… or making notes with a marker pen… or even lifting your head from the pages and telling anyone within earshot, “oh gosh did you know…” The Joy To Be Found In ‘Do We Need Pandas’ Did you know something like this? “…only one strategy has any long-term hope of …
Around the World in 80 Gardens – Monty Don
‘Around the World in 80 Gardens’ is a television series and book by Monty Don. He does exactly what the title says – travels all over the globe visiting remarkable gardens. Some he walks away from bouncing with excitement, others he is disappointed with, but never once do you feel he hasn’t appreciated the chance to see a new garden or left having not learnt something. It is a book we have come back to again and again, each short chapter giving enough information about a garden philosophy and its maker to inspire our spirit of imagination – like this quote from …