THE MODERN MINT BLOG
We recently read a wonderful essay by comedian Stewart Lee, who tried to answer the question ‘Where have all the …
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 …
Grown-up Gardening
The comic below is called Grown-ups. We share it with you because it tells us something important about being a Modern Gardener – more important by far than learning Latin plant names (though they are important) and saving water (that is necessary too!) This comic shows us that as a gardener, a Modern Gardener, we have a responsibility to the space we call our home. We get to decide how to use it, what we put in it, the way we interact with the flora and fauna that we share it with. As a Modern Gardener, as a grown-up, we decide …