THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Landscape Informs
We have recently been presenting a new garden talk – ‘What Do I Do With This Space?’ – to a …
Creative Pruning – A Vocabulary
A simple blog post today – we offer you a vocabulary to use when looking at ways to prune creatively, then at the end link to places you can buy tools and read more about the work of some of the key players in the pruning world. We hope this vocabulary is useful though – as you never know when you might need to explain the difference between a wibble and a twmp – it may help sell the idea to a client, or unwilling family member who thinks you should just leave that tree well alone… A Shape and Clipping …
The Gardener as Playwright
We want to quote today from a book by playwright Steve Waters – The Secret Life Of Plays – as we think it ties in beautifully with a way of thinking about gardening and garden design. “A play is a space to house a human story and must have give and, well, ‘play’ in it.” We love this. The quote has important words in, like ‘space ‘and ‘house’ and ‘story’… ‘human’ and ‘give’… the word ‘play’ is so significant it is repeated, and the second time given its own quotation marks! But replace the word ‘play’ with ‘garden’ (after all, it is ‘gardening’ …
What Is Happening At Modern Mint January 2015?
Happy New Year from Darren and Chloe at Modern Mint! Modern Mint will be turning 1 next month and what a busy year it has been… … we have designed gardens, sown meadows, written nearly 200 blog posts, took part in the Chelsea Fringe, performed a new garden show called ‘What Do You Do With This Space?’ and started an online shop to showcase the best in artisan talent – furniture makers, tool makers, soap makers – we are seeking them out and sharing them with you! Excited? Absolutely. Garden Design With 5 designs on the go at the moment, …