THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Garden Club Speaker
Update Right Now – I am only booking talks via Zoom for 2022/2023 A speaker for your audience? A speaker …
Clippings
That’s right, late spring is the time for clipping and pruning those box hedges, balls, cones and other weird and wonderful shapes you have in your garden. So here is a small selection of photos from our work this year… … we have written before about topiary, so please do delve deeper into our blog to discover more about what the heck it is we are trying to achieve when we get out the shears and secateurs, and why creating a piece of ‘live sculpture’ in your garden may well be the best thing you could do this year… The …
Copper Tools: Why Do We Sell Them At Modern Mint?
Update – I no longer sell them at Modern Mint. But my favourite garden Waltham Place does! Copper Tools. Why Do We Sell Them At Modern Mint? You are probably reading this post because you have either just bought, or just received as a gift, a copper gardening tool. Or perhaps you have seen them somewhere and want to find out more about the benefits of copper gardening tools. I first saw them at a biodynamic farm in Berkshire a few years ago. Staff were using them in the most wonderful vegetable and fruit garden I have ever seen. There were some …
Why we Love the Nordeck Chair
Looking for products for our shop is a fascinating job – the important questions are: What is it made of? Where has it come from? How long will it last? We don’t ask about cost or who is going to buy it – tastes change, so if you believe a product or producer is suitable – why not support them loudly? The world turns and the greatest and most useful products find their places… When we first saw the Nordeck chair we were stunned – several different lengths of wood, three bits of rope – and that is it. Everything …