THE MODERN MINT BLOG

Oct29

Modern Mint Shop

Modern Mint Garden Design has been up and running for almost 8 months now.  As well as Garden Design services we also want Modern Mint to be a place to go to for interesting articles, garden knowledge AND we want to share with you in our shop products we love – products that are unusual, fun, sustainable and beautiful.

We want to promote people and organisations that produce items based on their own individual creativity (check out this great arm chair),Beachbum-170

locally sourced or artisanal products (this from the potteries in Stoke on Trent, mugs to make you laugh),

FUN-GUY

 

… and an ingenious way to use up unpopular wool that would otherwise be heading for the bin (wool wellie warmers!)

2487 Wool Wellie Warmers

 

Take a look and let us know what you think, more items are going up every day on the shop as we start to build up our collection of goods.

And if you MAKE any unusual products and would like to include them in our shop please do get in touch!

 

Aug04

Box Hill – Novella by Adam Mars-Jones

I picked this book up back in 2020 because of the title – Box Hill – fabulous, I thought, a book about boxwood. I’ll peruse this for its respective thoughts on the plant I clip most when I make topiary. I didn’t read the blurb on the back. Didn’t know the author (although I knew the publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, as I love many of the essays they have published… so trusted the author would be worth spending time with.) By page 2 I realised this novel wasn’t quite what I had expected. I started the book at 10pm, after getting …

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Apr14

Topiary, The Art Garden at The Henderson

The Art Garden at The Henderson in Hong-Kong has now opened to the public. I joined the project last March, to work with Gillespies Landscape Architects on the topiary that had been designed for the Art Garden, which gives a calm, green space below the extraordinary Henderson skyscraper designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The garden has been designed with butterflies in mind, so lots of nectar plants, and has other art projects and installations within its footprint. The history of the site is interesting too – it was originally the first cricket ground in Hong-Kong! So still a green space….! …

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