THE MODERN MINT BLOG
We are looking for garden writers to take part in a Modern Mint project for the Chelsea Fringe Festival in …
Let Them Run Wild!
This is a guest post from the lovely garden writer Mary Hamblyn of Brookend Cottage Garden. You can also follow her here on Twitter. We are delighted that she has written a guest post for us on why children should have some wild areas in the garden. Let them run wild! For a few scary minutes this summer I lost my three year old daughter. We’d been pottering outside one minute, and she was gone the next. I scoured the garden, then the house, then the garden again. She’s quite sensible, so I was pretty sure she wouldn’t have wandered off by herself. And …
Plants for Seaside Gardens
Seaside gardens are fascinating and here at Modern Mint Garden Design we cannot wait for our first commission to work on a garden by the sea. In preparation for that moment we are trying to learn all we can about the plants that can cope with living by the seaside. Below is a document Plantlife have put together that gives great information and pictures on seaside wildflowers – easy to print off and take with you while walking along the coast too! We recently visited the West coast of Ireland to take a look at the landscape there – we saw …
Gilding the Lily – Amy Stewart (Part Three)
Gilding the Lily by Amy Stewart is about the cut flower industry. It is a brilliant book, making you question the role cut flowers (essentially a luxury item, already dying before they even get packed to be transported to the shop) have in our lives. (Here you can buy Gilding the Lily. While here is Part One from our blog. And here is Part Two.) This blog shares Amy Stewart’s conversation with florist shop owner Teresa Sabankaya from Santa Cruz, California… “My whole thing with flowers started in the garden. I love to see plants going from seed to seed, you know? We had 11 acres in Bonny …