THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Phillyrea is a shrub I came across a fair few years ago, in my search for clippable topiary shrubs for …
RHS Speakers List
Darren of Modern Mint is on the RHS Speakers List! If you need a speaker for your garden club, WI group, beekeeping society or fair please do get in touch with us here at Modern Mint. Talks can be provided on a variety of subjects and lengths to suit your event. For more information, see this blog post full of information and testimonials from previous talks… … or visit the RHS Speakers List website.
Dalefoot Composts on BBC2!
Our favourite, peat free compost can be seen on BBC 2 – just watch Back To The Land With Kate Humble. Dalefoot Composts are made with wool from Herdwick’s, a traditional Lake District sheep. They then mix it with bracken harvested as a crop on their land, as well as from other farmers in the Lakes. It makes a compost that holds water for longer, reducing the need for you to water, and slowly feeds your plants with nitrogen. We love it, and have spoken about it before at our garden club talks…. So do click the link and watch where …
Estudio Caruncho – Worth A Look!
Estudio Caruncho is the garden design studio of one of our favourite garden designers, the Spaniard Fernando Caruncho. Minimalist rather than maximalist, he has made some of the most iconic gardens of the last 20 years. Recently his own garden has taken something of a transformation too, as a plague wiped out the vast plantings of evergreen boxwoods and escallonia. Reduced as the evergreen components were, it allowed him to replace it with masses of the annual white cosmos – you can read and see photos here of Caruncho’s Temporal Cosmic Garden. But it is his work space we concentrate …