THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Want to know more about flower growing? This is a guest post from the wonderful Carole Patilla of Tuckshop Flowers …
What Do I Do With This Space?
What do I do with this space? A question clients often ask us, a question we often ask ourselves. So it became the title of our new talk for winter 2014/2015… but to answer this question, we have realised, is a huge undertaking. Exploring potential answers left us delving deeper and deeper into new ideas, unpacking thoughts and contemplating the words of garden philosophers, and feeling ever more entangled by the question we had set out to explore. How could such a simple question become so complex? Or as Clarice Lispector puts it in The Passion According to G.H.: “I …
Chelsea Fringe 2015 – Call for Authors
We are looking for garden writers to take part in a Modern Mint project for the Chelsea Fringe Festival in 2015. What Is the Project? The project is called ‘Contemporary Green: How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ It is a free to download, free to share, free to print book co-authored by garden writers like you. What Do You Need To Do? Write a 100 word ‘manifesto’ answering the question ‘How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ The question can be answered however you see fit – literally, philosophically, with an environmental bent, from a cynical worldview – the choice is …
Let Them Run Wild!
This is a guest post from the lovely garden writer Mary Hamblyn of Brookend Cottage Garden. You can also follow her here on Twitter. We are delighted that she has written a guest post for us on why children should have some wild areas in the garden. Let them run wild! For a few scary minutes this summer I lost my three year old daughter. We’d been pottering outside one minute, and she was gone the next. I scoured the garden, then the house, then the garden again. She’s quite sensible, so I was pretty sure she wouldn’t have wandered off by herself. And …