THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Why Use Modern Mint? 1) We offer great products, well made. 2) We take responsibility for the environment – supporting …
The Design Process
A typical design process will go like this: Job Specification – we will meet with all the users of the garden on-site and find out what you want, what you need and what potential scope your garden project has. This is the most important part as it sets out clearly what a succesful project will feel like, and gets us in sync with you right from the start. Survey – the structural basis of the design work. Outline Design – initial concepts and ideas are presented, allowing for further discussion and development with you. Final Design – Detailed plans and specifications are …
Plant of the Week: Mahonia
Really this post is about pruning… Walking to the accountant in Chelmsford yesterday morning we caught a heavy scent in the air, making us stop in our tracks. Where was it coming from? Which flower, in January, could provide such a rich and intoxicating scent as the sun tried with great audacity to warm the air? Looking around, there was no bright and gaudy flower, no obvious hint as to what was perfuming the air. So we went hunting into the borders, amongst the cubed, uniformally trimmed shrubs invariably shaped by a male gardener who finds satisfaction with a hedgetrimmer. …
The Most Important Lawncare Question
The most important lawncare question… …is what do you want your lawn to do? If you want a fine, green, healthy, thick, lush, short sward that is moss free, your children can play football on when it rains, cricket on when it is bone dry, the dog can urinate all over and can take a marquee stuck on top of it for a week… then you will need to invest a lot of resources to make that happen. But if you want a hard-wearing lawn that looks good – that is possible, and can be achieved with a few simple treatments and …