THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Modern Mint has now been blogging for six months, give or take a week. What then have been the most …
Seedballs
Here at Modern Mint we have now opened our webshop. What has the distinction of being our first ever product for sale? Seedballs! What are Seedballs? They are a little ball of clay and compost. This little ball then creates perfect conditions for the seeds that are also in the ball of clay to germinate. It is a permaculture technique that we first read about in this book… … we no longer have a copy as we gave ours to a Parisian theatre director about 5 years ago, in the hope they would turn it into a show. That has …
Nigel Colborn
We wrote last week about the book Gardens of Inspiration. In it, Nigel Colborn wrote an essay about gardens that have influenced him. W want to quote him further today – as we are currently designing a woodland garden and… well, he wrote beautifully about it here… “Species that enjoy similar ecologies will almost always look good together… a natural piece of North American woodland, for example, would boast trilliums and smilacina; in Europe, solomons seal and hellebores might occupy the same niche; and in Asia these might be replaced by meconopsis and epimediums. But in a garden, it is …
Do We Need Pandas? by Ken Thompson
This book – Do We Need Pandas – is one of our favourite Ken Thompson books (the other is No Nettles Required: The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardening). Do We Need Pandas is witty and light enough in style that the depressing information you are given does not prevent you from reading it… or making notes with a marker pen… or even lifting your head from the pages and telling anyone within earshot, “oh gosh did you know…” The Joy To Be Found In ‘Do We Need Pandas’ Did you know something like this? “…only one strategy has any long-term hope of …