The GreenArt blog

Practical advice and ideas on garden design, planting, seasonal care, wildlife-friendly gardening and long-term resilience.

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers

By George Smith 4 Minute Read

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers

One of the many joys of having a well-planned garden is that you can have ready access to freshly-cut flowers to add…

Monthly Garden Tips For June

By George Smith 2 Minute Read

Monthly Garden Tips For June

Hints And Tips For June 2016 June is the peak of the gardening year in most gardens so your jobs this month…

Star Performers On Our Patch

By George Smith 3 Minute Read

Star Performers On Our Patch

Ten Flowers & Shrubs That Will Thrive In Our Soil GreenArt’s base in South Oxfordshire is an interesting and quite varied place…

Help Save Our Hedgehogs!

By George Smith 6 Minute Read

Help Save Our Hedgehogs!

Hedgehogs are the gardener's friend as they particularly enjoy eating beetles, earthworms and slugs and therefore should be a regular guest in…

Trend-setting Garden Design

By George Smith 4 Minute Read

Trend-setting Garden Design

2016 sees the celebration of 300 years since the birth of possibly the greatest British landscape designer; Capability Brown. It also sees…

Monthly Garden Tips

By George Smith 3 Minute Read

Monthly Garden Tips

May is definitely the most dynamic month of the year as your garden springs into life; your job is to make the…

The Wonders Of Wildflower Meadows

By George Smith 6 Minute Read

The Wonders Of Wildflower Meadows

Six great reasons for creating a wildflower meadow in your garden. A Splash Of Colour! Planned and planted correctly, a wildlife meadow…

Monthly Garden Tips

By George Smith 2 Minute Read

Monthly Garden Tips

Lawns And Grass Areas The weather has finally sorted itself out and those pesky cold snaps should be over. After a few…

Monthly Garden Tips

By George Smith 2 Minute Read

Monthly Garden Tips

General Maintenance Although Spring is in sight, we are still experiencing the occasional cold snap and risk of snow, so this month,…

Sowing Seeds For Summer Colour

By George Smith 1 Minute Read

Sowing Seeds For Summer Colour

Although we’ve had one of the mildest winters, more cold weather is predicted. So, why not head indoors or to the greenhouse…

A garden flowing from The Downs

By George Smith 3 Minute Read

A garden flowing from The Downs

We trickled a pebbly stream into a formal slate-faced, stepped water feature to connect our client’s garden to the local environment and…

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?

By George Smith 3 Minute Read

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?

Following on from my earlier blogs on wildlife gardens and ponds you’ll have guessed by now that, allied to my professional interest…