THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Garden Design in Chelmsford: What Do People Look For? 1) Low Maintenance At the start of the year we found …
Finnish Gardens
From our trip to Western Finland last summer to check out some Finnish gardens, the Finnish landscape, and get some garden ideas… The landscape around you effects the way you behave. Notice how much colour the Finnish people use… symptomatic of the short growing season… Do we use enough colour in the UK? Or do we not appreciate just how bold we can go? Although a white garden is lovely, we can take lessons from people who like a more vibrant palette – try The Bold and Brilliant Garden if you need ideas. Everything gets recycled and reused, like this spade being used as …
The Perfect Garden
The perfect garden (or even worse, the perfect lawn!) is almost a badge of honour, something to be achieved and then shown off like a trophy on the mantelpiece. This search for perfection happens often in our lives – we seek the perfect word, the perfect skin, the perfect cup of tea. But the perfect garden is surely unachievable, if by perfect we mean ‘nothing out of place.’ Flawless. There will surely always be a corner that you haven’t had time to ‘tidy’ or ‘clean’… unless resources are seemingly unlimited… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8D2SYVaULw But what this does (beautiful as the space is) …
Mess
“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird This is the best advice we can give to anyone starting there first garden – don’t worry if it is a mess. It is so easy, when you move into a new house and suddenly have all this space to deal with (space that doesn’t stand still and let you catch up with it!) to begin planning for beautiful lawns, lots of roses, or a …