THE MODERN MINT BLOG

Apr13

Offers & Discounts!

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Once a month and twice at Christmas.

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Coupon codes so that you can get money off our lovely products at checkout.

News about the latest products we have to offer – whether it is a new artist of the month or the latest seasonal fashion, you will be the first to know.

A round-up of the best blog posts and most interesting news.

Unusual and funny stories we have come across when speaking to the brilliant people we meet.

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Over 1000. Plus all our followers on Facebook and Twitter. So you are in good company.

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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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