THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Organic Bulbs
What is the difference between organic bulbs (like the ones we are selling) and the bulbs you buy at the …
How To Make A Flower Border From Scratch
This is a fascinating subject – how do you make a flower border from scratch? When we first started gardening, and got to know a little bit about what we were doing, learnt a few plant names, seen a few different conditions, we wanted to stretch our creative wings a bit by planing a border of our very own. So we asked the lady we were apprenticed with at the time to tell us the secret – how do you make a border from scratch? How do you know what plants to choose? What, basically, are the underlying principles behind …
If You Want To Meet Some Brilliant People…
If you want to meet some brilliant people, we recommend you get stuck into reading this list below. It outlines five of the people Modern Mint have interviewed in the last year and a half about what they do, why they do it and what we can learn from them. They are brilliant. 1) Rosy Bee – Plants for Bees “There is a lot written – particularly by the wildlife trusts – about native plants being best. This never made any sense to me as many of the bees are not really native.” 2) Essex Bees “My brother, Dan, used …
Who Can Help With My Garden?
This is an odd question, but we get the impression it is one a lot of people ask. They must do, judging by the enormous amount of media coverage gardening gets – the books, the tv series, the radio programmes, the magazines, the blogs, the designers, the available courses and the websites… We are pleased about this. We love being out in the garden, for the health benefits as much as the testing of our ideas and understanding of the world – does this plant go with that one? Why does a robin sit on the fence watching us? Has …