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…
Selection Of Topiary Videos To Help You Clip
Over the last two years I have been involved with a couple of projects that have ended up being recorded, then placed on Youtube or Instagram. I’m hoping they will be useful to you, so I have decided this morning to pop them together in one handy blog post so that you can bookmark the page and revisit when you need some inspiration for your topiary. See below then, a few videos about topiary I have recently been involved with… Garden Masterclass – Provocations of a Modern Topiarist Transforming Topiary Topiary Teacher Put On The Spot https://www.instagram.com/p/CTj-EfOKRL6/ In the above …
Mark Zlotsky – Topiary Tango In New York
Mark Zlotsky is an artist based in New York, and today I just wanted to share his project ‘Topiary Tango’. In his introduction to the project he talks of topiary being a forgiving art, which I love and is soooooo true…..! For proof, just take a look at some projects I have made with a sharp pair of shears, a hedgetrimmer and a pruning saw. Do check out Mark Zlotsky’s project, because although his interest began by looking at topiary through the prism of architecture and the relationship of one building to another, he touches directly onto a way of …
Gardenista Interview – I Talk About Modern Topiary
Gardenista, the online magazine about gardens and design, have interviewed me about topiary. The article is called ‘Rethinking Topiary: A Garden Tradition Loosened Up’ and was published this morning. Written by the excellent garden writer Clare Coulson, I share some thoughts on using deciduous plants, how to clip (name-dropping Anne Lamott and her book on writing at one stage… oh, how I wander off subject sometimes!) and how to improve topiary by what you plant around it. Do take a look at the article in Gardenista. Or for more about my topiary work, check out the topiary page.