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Where Are Modern Mint?
Where are Modern Mint?
If you look at the photo above, you would think we are in sunny Torino at the Parco del Valentino.
Or what about the photo below? It look like Modern Mint are in the Mediterranean…
Or not so sunny Scotland!
Modern Mint in the Herb Garden…
And back to the Mediterranean. But this time with a littles sun…
Of course, we are actually based in Essex, UK. But you can find us in quite a few different places up to Christmas….
Kent
Hampshire
Salisbury
Wiltshire
Berkshire
Essex
Suffolk
Just to name a few.
For full details of where to find Modern Mint, check out our Diary Page.
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 …
The Henderson, Topiary Art Interview on Instagram
In a suit… eek! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Henderson (@thehenderson_hk)
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….! …