THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Looking online for where the word compost comes from, we found it originates in ‘composite’. ‘Com’ = together ‘Ponere’ – …
Where Have all the Herbicide Loving Gardeners Gone?
We recently read a wonderful essay by comedian Stewart Lee, who tried to answer the question ‘Where have all the right wing comedians gone?’ A fantastic question, and one that has inspired us to ask something similar – where have all the herbicide loving gardeners gone? (For those of you interested in finding out where all the right wing comedians are, Stewart Lee comes to the conclusion you cannot be a clown, a fool, without being at the bottom of the societal rung. How can you show the foibles of the worker if you are the Boss? You can’t, because …
Manifesto for the Modern Gardener
Why Write A Manifesto For The Modern Gardener? A manifesto? For the gardener or garden owner working today? The modern world looks the way it does for a reason – it is shaped by humans for the resources they need, to provide us with the lives we have. To get people discovering how the materials they wear, the foods they eat and the furniture they sit on all comes via the landscape is so important that I suggest gardening must be compulsory for everyone at school. Absolutely everyone. Planting the seeds of passion for gardening and plants, upscaling the knowledge of …
Boring Plants Are Great
You will probably see these plants in quite a few gardens, they are well-known and a bit old hat. Only today we spoke with a gardener who complained about Verbena bonariensis being too common, too over-used, too tall and too boring. Geez! We were overwhelmed by the anger. It hasn’t done that much wrong and we must say, we don’t think that of Verbena bonariensis. Which is why we want to give a shout out in this blog to plants that are given a bad deal by people, just because everyone has them or knows them. They may be boring in …