THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Front Garden Design
How do you create a front garden design that has everything – space to park and turn the car around, …
Wild Flower Patch – Southend-on-Sea
This picture was taken by Simon from South East Essex Organic Gardeners… he said, “(if you) haven’t seen it, there is a pocket place of wild flower patch running riot around the back of the (old) Public Library car park in Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea. Take a look – it makes my day (every day)!” It would warm our heart to see this everyday – and don’t forget, you can have it too, if you take up a place on our Ten Meadows project. Or if you’d like to do your own research on meadows, we recommend you check out this …
Most Popular Posts (from our first 6 months)
Modern Mint has now been blogging for six months, give or take a week. What then have been the most read blogs so far? These below… the top post also being the most fun to write… Top Post! An Interview with Rosybee – nurserywoman and beekeeper shares her research on the most bee valuable plants. Second Best! Golden Rules of Planting – Val Bourne shares her wisdom. The Next Second Best! Chelsea Fringe – this post from the second week of our Chelsea Fringe project, as the peony from Italy began to open. Thank you for coming to read, and we hope …
Nigel Colborn
We wrote last week about the book Gardens of Inspiration. In it, Nigel Colborn wrote an essay about gardens that have influenced him. W want to quote him further today – as we are currently designing a woodland garden and… well, he wrote beautifully about it here… “Species that enjoy similar ecologies will almost always look good together… a natural piece of North American woodland, for example, would boast trilliums and smilacina; in Europe, solomons seal and hellebores might occupy the same niche; and in Asia these might be replaced by meconopsis and epimediums. But in a garden, it is …