THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Partners
We work with a number of other businesses that can help provide us with the items you want. We are a resource for gardening, after all…
For plants we we work with Jersey Plants Direct – they also offer free delivery on plants and we like that.
Cut flower queries allow us to send you to the Queen of the home grown flower growers art, Sarah Raven. Use this resource she provides!
For gardening books where better is there to go than Amazon
For the computer we use we have partnered to work with Panda Security UK because you need anti-virus software to protect what you create.
For garden products we work with Garden Trading, Harrod Horticultural and Agriframes (who do frames for the garden, of course…)
Anything to do with ponds go to Pondkeeper.
Mowers and lawn care products can be found here at Rolawn, Lawn Mowers UK and Mow Direct.
For ecologically considered products we use Natural Collection. Please change how you shop and use them to.
You have to eat well – gardening burns a lot of calories – so do buy your food from Donald Russell and Pong Cheese. Yum!
Love Lula? We do, as they offer something unusual – vegan products. Our vegan friends need caring for to…
Home and office need a design spruce up? Try the fabulous Royal Design.
When you’re tired from a long day in the garden, we offer you a cup of tea… and a piece of chocolate!
And finally we partner with LED Hut for lighting…
Do make the most of these companies and use what they are offering!
Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue
With Chris Poole of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society we visited Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue in Rutland. Do you know it? Amazing place! Chris and I were teaching a topiary workshop in order to give local people the skills and technique, and tenacity! to help with the pruning of the avenue and elevate it to something even more special than it already is. Read more about the workshops here. We hope to run a further workshop in September 2026, as well as teach an advanced course too. Check the teaching page through the year as it will be updated …
Aesthetic Pruners Association – New Talk In December
An organisation I love and have been learning lots from in the last two years is the Aesthetic Pruners Association based in the USA. Sharing knowledge with them about clipping and the overlap – and differences! – in style is something worth exploring, so I recommend a visit to their website and to join onto their events and talks, which are all on Zoom meaning you can access them from anywhere in the world. No excuse not to learn! The next event will be led by Jocelyn Cohen and be about ancient trees in the British Landscape. This is such …
The Amelia Project – Episode 88: Didius Julianus
Friends of mine write a sitcom podcast called The Amelia Project (I wrote about this years ago, when they started it….!) December 2024 I had some fun playing the tiny part of Fornio in episode 88 – Didius Julianus. I have not listened to the episode yet, as I am clearly not an actor… and the thought of listening to my dulcet tones for the few minutes I’m in it just… makes me feel ill. But the recording and being in the studio was great fun, the real actors were hilarious and the script is brilliant – not just funny, …