THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Advertising Opportunities with Modern Mint at the Chelsea Fringe ‘Contemporary Green: How Do We Cultivate Our Garden?’ We are curating a free …
Magazine Rack – Modern Mint Product Design
A Magazine Rack? Or Something Else? We are rapidly expanding the products we offer on the Modern Mint Shop – you may have noticed the new trug/carriers go up this week? But we are finding that we don’t just want to sit here letting someone else do all the hard work of designing and making a product… we want to do this ourselves! Enter our new designer (he’s Italian, so surely he must have style?) who has started developing new product ideas with us. As ever, we start from a broad canvas and try and discover what it is we …
Taj Mahal, India
Working at Modern Mint we have made it part of our mission to visit gardens and landscapes all over the world. By seeing these different places and allowing ourselves to be influenced by what we come across we believe it will make us better gardeners. Finland opened our eyes to the use of loud, bright colours during the summer months, while Japan offered us the care and thought necessary to look after a garden, and appreciate the atmospheres you can create with simple, natural elements used thoughtfully. But last week when we visited Agra in India – well, nothing can …
If You Want To Waste Time Online…
If you want to waste time online… it is far too easy to do! So we have chosen for you a number of posts worth reading online that will mean that, when you’ve finished, you won’t feel guilty about time lost. Because these are fabulous blogs. Not all are about gardening, but what they do have in common is a way of teaching you something, of taking you through an idea or a story that is worth hearing. By spending time online with these ideas, you will give yourself something rich and deep to think about while you are head …