THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Worried about the environment? Here are ten ideas to help you think about your gardening footprint and what you can …
Cut Flowers
Today we thought we would write about cut flowers again, taking inspiration from the book Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden. We have written about this book before (try this blog post about Vita Sackville-West) but thought we would give a whole blog post to our favourite chapter – Cut Flowers. So, in the words of Vita, and with a little help from Sarah Raven, here are a few reasons to grow your own flowers for the vase… “A flowerless room is a soul-less room, to my thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower …
Easy Bulbs to Plant this Autumn
What are the best looking, easiest bulbs to plant this Autum? Here are a few we are putting into designs for our clients… 1) Narcissus ‘Thalia’ 2) Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ 3) Narcissus ‘Actaea’ 4) Narcissus ‘February Gold’ 5) Tulipa ‘Ballerina’ (We thought about adding pictures and explanations to help you decide they are worth planting – but planting bulbs is such an act of faith – that we didn’t want to give away what will come up in the spring. What we mean is, you get these tough little bulbs and bury them in the dark, let life carry on and forget …
Seedball Interview (Part Two)
We recently interviewed the fascinating team at Seedball and Project Maya – you can read part one of the interview here – do take some time to read what they have to tell us, and support their work by buying products like Seedballs… Can you tell us more about the Maya reserve plot that you wish to buy by the end of 2015 please? Yes, our aim is to buy our first UK nature reserve by the end of 2015 – not too far away! At present a number of locations have been shortlisted for our first reserve, based on …