THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Modern Garden Design
Tucked away in the March issue of The Garden magazine is a lovely article by James Wong of ‘Grow Your …
The Design Process
A typical design process will go like this: Job Specification – we will meet with all the users of the garden on-site and find out what you want, what you need and what potential scope your garden project has. This is the most important part as it sets out clearly what a succesful project will feel like, and gets us in sync with you right from the start. Survey – the structural basis of the design work. Outline Design – initial concepts and ideas are presented, allowing for further discussion and development with you. Final Design – Detailed plans and specifications are …
The Beth Chatto Gardens
The great writers have a wide range about their work. They will go from a tragic scene to a comedic scene, melodrama to vulgarity, realism to fantasy…and tie it all together, make it seem as if this width of styles fits together seamlessly and simply…because it does. It gets described as ‘their’ style. Would you strive for the same in your garden? This is not easy to do, it takes a lot of experience, and practise. It takes guts to try it. To be bold! Beth Chatto is an example of someone who did this. She drew on what she …
The Whispered Launch
The problem with whispering is not that you won’t be heard. The problem is what the listener might hear. If you have heard about Modern Mint – that we are a design and landscape company working in Essex and London – then you have heard right. If you have heard we learnt our trade working on large estates in Hampshire and Berkshire, before closing down and moving to live in East Anglia, bringing our brand of vibrant, modern gardens with us… then you have heard right again. But if you heard we make gardens that are lacklustre, boring and hard …