THE MODERN MINT BLOG
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 …
Plants for Seaside Gardens
Seaside gardens are fascinating and here at Modern Mint Garden Design we cannot wait for our first commission to work on a garden by the sea. In preparation for that moment we are trying to learn all we can about the plants that can cope with living by the seaside. Below is a document Plantlife have put together that gives great information and pictures on seaside wildflowers – easy to print off and take with you while walking along the coast too! We recently visited the West coast of Ireland to take a look at the landscape there – we saw …
Logs – Modern Mint
Autumn is arriving and nights are getting colder, so we need to start thinking about logs for the fire. Why you should use logs from Modern Mint… The logs we offer are guaranteed to have been seasoned for 1 year, with a low moisture content. All logs are sourced from the UK – Essex, South London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire. Buying logs from Modern Mint (and so from the UK) helps support work in native woodlands. Contact us now for prices! What are the best logs to use for your fire? In the words of ‘Woodsman’ Ben Law, you need …
NGS Sissinghurst
Earlier in the year we visited Sissinghurst, when they opened for the NGS scheme at 6am on a Sunday morning. It was brilliant to be there so early and we had the chance to talk with new(ish) head gardener Troy Scott Smith about how they are trying to ‘revitalise Vita’. The garden has changed a lot over the years, which is a good thing, but has lost a little of the ‘fine carelessness’ that drove the making of the garden. It is now the job of Troy and his team to bring a little of that chaos and looseness back …