[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It was the last day of the project today. Whilst I will have to make a trip back during the next coppicing season in the winter to finish the arbour by the pond, all the main structures are complete and are showing signs of growth. Yippee!!
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Rediscovering My Willow Mojo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This weekend was perhaps the hardest and yet most satisfying in equal measure. I arrived on site and did a quick recce of the site and willow.
Tying the Willow Tunnel
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Having just stopped for lunch and being struck several times this morning with blog inspiration, I thought I would regale you with my further adventures in willow sculpting.
Badger & Mole’s Willow Tunnel Evolves
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s a cooler today than it has been the last few days. I am glad of the cooler weather as the willow remains supple and flexible when it hasn’t dried out in the sun.
The Living Willow Project, Badger & Mole’s Tunnel
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today, to him gazing south with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate with promise; today, the unseen was everything. The unknown, the only real fact of life.
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The Living Willow Project Continues
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wow, what a day! It started with rain ended with rain and had rain in the middle, but as I told the lovely Liz, who came to see us at intervals with tea and wonderment, rain is good for the willow, it helps water it in and stops the whips from drying out.
Living Willow, Living The Dream
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]’Twas the night before the willow project and all through the flat, a wave of excitement arose as softly I sat, on the comfortable sofa with a head full to bursting, itching to get started on Ratty’s boat, first thing!!’
The Big Sunflower Competition 2019
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This year GreenArt will be holding its first sunflower growing competition. Inspired by The Big Sunflower Project, we’re helping to raise awareness of rare neuromuscular conditions known as centronuclear and myotubular myopathy, by asking people to grow a sunflower.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hello lovely people,
We thought you would find it interesting to provide a more detailed picture of some of the plants we care for and include in our garden schemes, so here’s the first of our specimen-focused blogs for this year.
Today, it’s Cornus
How green does your garden grow?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here at GreenArt we are committed to finding ways that we as a business can become greener and more environmentally friendly. So in 2019 we are renewing our commitment and exploring even more ways we can ‘green’ our working practices.
Some of the things we already do…