Mrs Fiddlesticks
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uses for weeping willow logs that are sprouting leavesHad 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?
All ideas gratefully recieved.
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dpack
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nowt to lose by trying to see if it will do coppice when planted
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judith
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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.
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Cho-ku-ri
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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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cab
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If you can get spawn dowels of chicken of the woods mushroom, it ought to do very well on weeping willow logs.
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| cab wrote: | | If you can get spawn dowels of chicken of the woods mushroom, it ought to do very well on weeping willow logs. |
already done that 
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Cathryn
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there's a weeping willow log in the University gardens that was used to line the edge of a woodland path - it makes a very pretty leafy hedge now.
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| ruby wrote: | | there's a weeping willow log in the University gardens that was used to line the edge of a woodland path - it makes a very pretty leafy hedge now. |
like that idea...
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