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In Part 2 of our interview with Essex Bees (here is Part One) Richard tells us about his interest in …
Essex Bees Interview (Part 1)
This is an interview with Richard from Essex Bees. We did this partly as a follow up to the interview with Rosybee and partly because the work the two Essex boys of Essex Bees do is fascinating – please do read on to learn more about how they became beekeepers! What is it Essex Bees do? Essex Bees set-up and manage bee hives with the support of private individuals, public bodies and businesses, mainly across the south and east of Essex. We also extol the virtues and benefits of not only honey bees but all pollinating insects by giving talks, …
Landscaper Essex
Landscaper Essex? Here are photos from a project Modern Mint have been working on over the last few years – do contact us if you want to chat about how we, as a garden designer or landscaper, can help you with your garden. Alternating cherries and apples along a serpentine wall of this long driveway helps to soften the landscaping… Low maintenance planting against the house to repalce a rose that had died. Ceanothus will grow taller to add a better sense of scale and interest to the wall. Check out the rosebay in flower over the wall – nightmare weeding the seeds that land …
Unusual Vegetable Garden
Yesterday Modern Mint were sent these photos of an unusual vegetable garden, from a reader of the blog in Oxford. We wanted to share these pictures with you as we think the idea is absolutely wonderful…! This is what she had to say… “We harvested the first courgettes last week and the first tomatoes can be seen on the vine! First handful of beans were harvested yesterday! This is so so great – and we got everything for free, scavenging in skips and on the roadside! Hope your well and keep up the great site and the super blog. Really enjoy …