Description
~~~A specially selected mix of BASKETRY Willow Cuttings – 25cm long hardwood cuttings ready for potting/planting.
There will be a mixture of varieties that are especially desirable for basket weaving. There will be a range of colours, textures and growth habits. Yellows, green, olive, red, burghandy, purple, – Particularly slim and slender or tall and malleable varieties. The willows will be freshly cut and labelled.
These are so easy to plant and grow – they just need to be inserted into pots of soil or straight into the ground where they are to grow. Being dormant they will sit waiting for the soil to warm and then in the spring they will take root and begin to shoot.
– Willows would wish to have a minimum of 30cm spacing between each plant if making a willow bed or hedge, I usually plant 45cm apart in the beds at out Nursery.
Willows are quick growing, most of these varieties will grow about 6-9ft in a year, it should be pruned regularly over the years to be kept as multi stemmed shrubs. Cutting regularly gives the brightest strongest colours and thinnest, straightest stems for weaving. If left to grow over some years it will branch and become a small tree.
Many of these willows be grown just as an ornamental and wildlife friendly shrubs too, excellent for winter colour and their interesting buds and catkins – and highly valuable for early pollinators. The stems can be cut regularly for floristry and craft material – beautiful as wreaths and interior decorations.
Willows are very tolerant of many soil and growing conditions, but will thrive in moist and sunny sites. The willow is grown at our nursery in South Devon where we have 25+ willows of different colours and types for structures, basketry, craft, wildlife and ornamental purposes.
BASKETRY VARIETIES (you will receive a mix from this list)
- Brittany Green – Salix Purpurea – Slim, Stripped green/brown to crimson/red
- Dicky Meadows – Salix Purpurea –Very fine green to yellow with red tips
- Dark Dicks – Salix Purpurea – Thin green/red/purple stem darkening with age
- Japonica – Salix Purpurea –Textured olive/green stems, furry purple catkins.
- Eugenni – Salix Purpurea –Slim green stems, red buds, pretty purple catkins
- Coho Blue – Salix Purpurea –Tall thin, blush purple/green to red lengths.
- Goldstones – Salix Purpurea –Slim bright green stems with yellow buds
- Elegantissima – Salix Purpurea –Green/red with pink buds
- European Violet – Daphnoids – Crimson, furry white catkins
- Deep Purple – Salix Daphnoids – Dark purple furry catkins
- William Rogers – Salix Purpurea x Daphnoids – Thick Green to deep red tips.
- Calliantha – Salix Purpurea x Daphnoids – Tall mahogany brown
- Harrisons – Salix Purpurea x Viminalis x Rubra – Glossy reddy brown, 8ft rods.
- White Welsh – Salix Fragilis – Pale brown/cream, pink buds 6ft rods.
- Olei Rouge – Salix Fragilis – Honey/cream, red to black large buds
- Raesfeld – Salix Alba – Reddish brown, red buds, 6ft rods.
- Britzensis – Salix Alba – Yellow to bright scarlet tips, pink buds, 6ft rods.
- Jaune Hative – Salix Alba x Fraglilis – Yellow/Orange/Red 6ft rods.
- Flanders Red – Salix Alba Vitellina x Fraglilis – Glossy olive/red
- Golden Yellow – Salix Alba Vitellina – Bold Yellow, red buds.
- Golden Rod – Salix Alba Vitellina – Thick yellow/green with small pink buds.
- Yelverton – Salix Alba Vitellina –Bright Scarlett
- Black Maul – Salix Triandra –Smooth olive to dark brown stems, slender.
- Whissander – Salix Triandra –Honey green, long.
- Australian Gray – Salix Triandra –Olive/brown to grey stems
- Pheasant Brown – Salix Triandra x Viminalis – Glossy red/brown
- Hybrid Red – Salix Viminalis –Maroon red, thick tall
- Cane Osier – Salix Viminalis –Greeny brown, tall slim
- Common Osier – Salix Viminalis –Greeny brown, tall
- Violet Willow – Salix Acutifolia –Burgundy/purple stems, large catkins.
- Nigricans – Salix Myrsinifolis – Glossy deep brown/black, shade tolerant, round leaf.
- Faucille – Salix Myrsinfolis –Shiny brown
- Bori Pescara – Salix Amplexicaulis –Purple stem, red shoots & buds
Carefully gift wrapped and posted First Class.
