THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Speaking with a gardener this week, we began discussing what they would do if they started a nursery – how …
A Low Maintenance Garden
Here we are in May, the weather is warm, we have had some rain and the sap is rising – you look around your garden and all you will see is the maintenance issues, the jobs that are to be done. How do you cope with a garden that threatens to overtake you? Well, here are some ideas for you, to reduce the work load and give yourself a low maintenance garden – all without reducing the amount of flowers you have! Low Maintenance Garden Ideas 1) Plant Shrubs The New Perennial Movement has turned people off planting shrubs in …
Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardener
This video is a Ted Talk by Ron Finley, a guerilla gardener in LA. (For those of you who want to know more about guerilla gardening, try this blog post we wrote last year about Richard Reynolds, London’s own guerilla gardener…!) A friend sent it to us to watch (we had never heard of Ron Finley before but he is a lovely speaker to watch and listen to) and, in the email our friend sent the link in, he described his favourite part of this video. It was Ron Finley saying this: “Gardening is the most therapeautic and defiant act you can …
Modern Mint – Garden Shows 2015
Modern Mint has only been around for just over a year, and last month we took our first steps into the world of garden shows! We were delighted to be asked to be a keynote speaker at a number of shows for 2015 in Suffolk, Hampshire, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. We have a busy few weekends ahead of us! So far we have gotten to know the people of Ipswich and Newbury, and what fun we have had! We’ve came armed with a canopy, enough products that we can fit in our car, lots of jumpers (Ipswich was wet and …