THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Taj Mahal, India
Working at Modern Mint we have made it part of our mission to visit gardens and landscapes all over the …
James Van Sweden (Part 3)
We come back to James Van Sweden a lot on this blog – and the start of this interview sums up for us the reason why! In it, James Van Sweden says this about his garden design work with Wolfgang Oehme: “We never took it too seriously… because then you don’t have any fun, and you don’t create really fabulous gardens.” Gardening is fun! And remembering that, cultivating that, will help you on more than one account – a sense of humour about your garden helps you to realise the inconsequential nature of your delphiniums being eaten by slugs, or the …
Our 1 Year Anniversary
Today we celebrate 1 year since Modern Mint registered as a business – Happy Anniversary! We have come a long way in that time. The original website, when it went live, totalled a (whopping) four pages. Now we look back in amazement – we have the shop, the garden design work, the Chelsea Fringe projects, the organic topiary, the Ten Meadows project, the garden talks… and this, our 200th blog post. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step… … from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. These are well-known quotes, so over-used it is hard to notice how important they …
Landscape Informs
We have recently been presenting a new garden talk – ‘What Do I Do With This Space?’ – to a number of gardening groups in Essex. (To find out where we are presenting the talk next, please visit the Talks page.) What looks like a simple question has turned out to be incredibly complex to answer, and in a one hour talk of free form ideas we barely have time to scratch the surface. What do people do with the land around them? How does the landscape inform their lives and the choices they make? For example, some people have enough …