THE MODERN MINT BLOG

May03

Three British Nurseries You Should Get To Know

You may know that the first week of May is National Nurseries Week, a time to celebrate some of the best plant growers in the UK.

So to help you choose where to buy your plants, here are three nurseries you may never have heard about before…

King John’s Nursery, East Sussex

Primarily focused on herbaceous perennials, vegetable plugs too.

Wykeham Mature Plants, Yorkshire

Walled garden with over 100 acres of field grown trees and shrubs.

Todd’s Botanics, Essex

Specialists in drought tolerant herbaceous and architectural plants.

… get to know your local nurseries – you’ll get better advice, better service and better plants.

What more can you ask for?

Further Reading:

RHS Plant Finder 2014

British Gardens in Time: The Greatest Gardens and the People Who Shaped Them

… and for something related, but a bit different…

Tree Nurseries – Cultivating the Urban Jungle: Plant Production Worldwide

Aug04

Box Hill – Novella by Adam Mars-Jones

I picked this book up back in 2020 because of the title – Box Hill – fabulous, I thought, a book about boxwood. I’ll peruse this for its respective thoughts on the plant I clip most when I make topiary. I didn’t read the blurb on the back. Didn’t know the author (although I knew the publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, as I love many of the essays they have published… so trusted the author would be worth spending time with.) By page 2 I realised this novel wasn’t quite what I had expected. I started the book at 10pm, after getting …

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Apr14

Topiary, The Art Garden at The Henderson

The Art Garden at The Henderson in Hong-Kong has now opened to the public. I joined the project last March, to work with Gillespies Landscape Architects on the topiary that had been designed for the Art Garden, which gives a calm, green space below the extraordinary Henderson skyscraper designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The garden has been designed with butterflies in mind, so lots of nectar plants, and has other art projects and installations within its footprint. The history of the site is interesting too – it was originally the first cricket ground in Hong-Kong! So still a green space….! …

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