THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Sarah Raven
Sarah Raven is a garden writer and teacher, probably best known for the cut flower courses she runs in Kent… …
Top 10 Christmas Gift Ideas for Garden Lovers
It’s that time again, mild panic starts setting in … Christmas gift shopping time! You want to get something good, and not a standard gift you can get on the high street. You want something a little different, something that looks like you’ve put some effort in!! Modern Mint is here to help you with our countdown to the top 10 gifts for garden lovers that are slightly unusual. At number 10 is a perfect stocking filler – seedballs! Small and in a beautiful designed tin. These come in 5 different varieties, from £4.50. If you want to bulk buy for …
What Is It Like To Be A Flower Grower In Winter?
Want to know more about flower growing? This is a guest post from the wonderful Carole Patilla of Tuckshop Flowers explaining what she does as a British flower grower during the off season (what off season?) Carole is a member of Flowers from the Farm. You can follow her here on Twitter. To see more of her work and what she can do for you here is her website Tuckshop Flowers. We are incredibly happy to be able to share this with you, so please do enjoy this insightful post about what a British flower grower does during winter! What is …
What Do I Do With This Space?
What do I do with this space? A question clients often ask us, a question we often ask ourselves. So it became the title of our new talk for winter 2014/2015… but to answer this question, we have realised, is a huge undertaking. Exploring potential answers left us delving deeper and deeper into new ideas, unpacking thoughts and contemplating the words of garden philosophers, and feeling ever more entangled by the question we had set out to explore. How could such a simple question become so complex? Or as Clarice Lispector puts it in The Passion According to G.H.: “I …