Posted: Mon Mar 05, 07 5:00 pm Post subject: uses for weeping willow logs that are sprouting leaves
Had our weeping willow pollarded late last year and kept some of the logs which have just been at the back of the garden in a heap. We've noticed that some have started to sprout little leaves. Whilst we don't want weeping willows everywhere any ideas of how we can utilise this. Could we plant them and make it in to some sort of hedge ( trimmed very regularly) or would that be impossible to maintain? Can it be used in a copice sort of way and the wands could be harvested ( for basketry?) Are the shoots just an act of a bit of dying wood and it won't actually root?
nowt to lose by trying to see if it will do coppice when planted
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 07 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: uses for weeping willow logs that are sprouting leaves
Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
Are the shoots just an act of a bit of dying wood and it won't actually root?
I bet they will root. We made the mistake of not tying and bundling all the willow branches that we cut down last year. To a stick, they put down roots at practically every bud along the branch while they were lying on the floor. The will to propagate of the willow is absolutely phenomenal.
They will easily root if you get them in the ground. I took 15ft Poplar cuttings that nobody said would root and they all did, giving my father's new house instant mature trees for nothing.
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