THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Today we offer you an interview with the Cycling Gardener of Liverpool, Mike Davies. A lovely part of our job at …
Our 1 Year Anniversary
Today we celebrate 1 year since Modern Mint registered as a business – Happy Anniversary! We have come a long way in that time. The original website, when it went live, totalled a (whopping) four pages. Now we look back in amazement – we have the shop, the garden design work, the Chelsea Fringe projects, the organic topiary, the Ten Meadows project, the garden talks… and this, our 200th blog post. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step… … from little acorns do mighty oaks grow. These are well-known quotes, so over-used it is hard to notice how important they …
7 Ways Your Garden Is NOT Helping The Earth
The way we garden is changing – we feel there really is a growing trend towards being kinder to the earth and we are seeing people take a much stronger interest in gardening for wildlife. Even garden centres are putting ‘bee-friendly’ symbols onto plant labels to help people choose what to grow (perhaps removing the pesticides from sale would make more of a difference, but at least baby steps are being taken in the right direction!) There are lots of places you can find out what actions you can take in your garden in order to tread lightly on the earth – for …
BIG WORDS
When a client trusts us with their garden we immediately begin thinking and puzzling over how we can improve that space, how we can make it relate to the world in a way that encourages wildlife and diversity while being something the client values too. It is an important question – what do we do with this space? But it doesn’t seem enough, to only look at these tiny patches of land that we garden. What about the materials we bring in and add to the space? What about the materials we take away? We are connected to so many processes …