THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Capture Carbon In Your Garden is the title of our 2017 Chelsea Fringe project.
To help you find all the information you need about it, check out these links below:
Capture Carbon In Your Garden – explaining the project.
5 Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Capture Carbon In Your Garden – the infographic!
Ditch The Power Tools – a favourite blog post!
Dalefoot Composts – Peat Free compost on the TV.
Have You Tried A Cycling Gardener?
One Tree Planted, For Every Purchase In June – THIS IS IMPORTANT!
Update: Plant A Tree In The Modern Mint Grove – 152 & Counting!
There you have it then, our handy pillar post to guide you on making your garden a carbon sink.
Good luck!
For my topiary work, see here…
Why I Wrote The Book Modern Topiary
I have written this book, Modern Topiary, because I wanted a collation of useful information that would give people access to everything they need to know in order to start making topiary. Topiary is an amazing (and niche) line of work to follow – amazing because it offers up opportunities to travel all over the world, making gardens, meeting people… but also, the work is intensely physical, hands-on, yet requires creative thinking in order to solve the puzzle of how to make the shapes you want. This mixture of the craft and the art is what I love the most …
Buxus the Norfolk Terrier In Modern Topiary Book
This is Buxus, our Norfolk Terrier, who I acknowledge in the acknowledgments of the book of Modern Topiary. The book of Modern Topiary can be read, for free, here. There you go. Buxus the dog on ‘doorstep duty’ at a friend’s house in Edinburgh. For those asking what he looked like!
What People Think Of Modern Topiary, The Book
Yesterday I put out the book – Modern Topiary – that I have spent the last six years writing. Download for free a pdf of Modern Topiary here. And what seems amazing to me, is that not only have people actually been reading it, but then responding to it. So below are a number of comments I have been sent from those who read it last night, and this morning…. “Brilliant read, exactly the right amount of info to take in and digest.” Rachel, a gardener “I love your book, the advice is so straightforward and your writing is so …