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As you know we have a huge interest in meadows and organic topiary. So to share what we love we …
When I.T. Matters
When It Matters designed our website. We know very little about websites and computers (we much prefer gardening) so they have been great for us to use – patiently explaining what we need to do and how to do it – without making us feel like idiots. They have an eye for design, for colour, for balance and we are so pleased with the website and how easily it works. If that sounds like the help you need, we recommend them to you… When I.T. Matters Centrepoint House, Surrey, GU1 4DA 01483 400631 info@when-it-matters.com
My Garden
My Garden is the title of the final chapter in Russell Page’s ‘The Education of a Gardener’… In it he lays out the garden he dreams of one day having… “The mood I seek above all is one of relaxation given by a garden, easy and untortured, in which plants, however rare and strange, will grow and take their place naturally and discreetly.” We have moved to Chelmsford recently from Hampshire, to design gardens in the drier Essex landscape, and have reduced our garden down to an allotment and a balcony. The problem with being a gardener (and Russell Page …
Ryoan-ji
Last November the Modern Mint team went to view the gardens of Japan (and eat sushi, in vast quantities.) This picture, at the famous Zen garden of Ryoan-ji, was taken at 7.50am on a Monday morning. Hence the privacy. There are 15 stones in the garden, but only 14 can be viewed at any one time from the platform. It is said that if you gain enlightenment the fifteenth stone will be revealed to you. We didn’t find enlightenment, but we did have to get up early, take three buses and then knock on the temple door asking to be allowed in in order to get any time …