THE MODERN MINT BLOG
The main issue with gardening in rented accomodation is time – you may only be there 12 months before moving …
Partners
We work with a number of other businesses that can help provide us with the items you want. We are a resource for gardening, after all… For plants we we work with Jersey Plants Direct – they also offer free delivery on plants and we like that. Cut flower queries allow us to send you to the Queen of the home grown flower growers art, Sarah Raven. Use this resource she provides! For gardening books where better is there to go than Amazon. For a more specific pointer, we have a bookshop. For the computer we use we have partnered to work with Panda …
Great Roses
A client has asked us about some great roses we could plant in their garden. We have spoken about our portfolio of roses before – what we have discovered is the choice is huge, and seems to be expanding all the time. So how do you find a great rose? 1) Scent – fragrance is so important, it really is. You only realise how much the nose craves it when you walk past a bed of a rose like ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ and get knocked over by the smell. 2) Disease resistance – we hate spraying roses, and anyone who has doused their blooms and …
Bee Friendly Plants
When choosing bee friendly plants the key ideas to look out for are: 1) Grow plants that are nectar rich and full of pollen. (So stay clear of overbred double flowers…) 2) Provide a number of flower shapes – flat disks and tubular flowers are great. 3) Plant in blocks – bees, being oh so efficient, want to fly to one spot and pick up as much nectar as possible. Don’t ask them to work hard, group your flowers together. We interviewed nursery woman Rosybee about the top 5 plants for bees. She said, “… borage, phacelia and echium are all …