Basket Willow (5x 1'-2' cuttings)
Latin Name: Salix purpurea. Family: Salicaceae (Willow)
USDA hardiness zone: 3
Growth habit: Shrub
Mature size: 20ft
Native range: Eurasia
Preferred habitat: Wetland edges, hedges
Pollinators: Wind
Edible parts: Bark as medicine
Uses and functions: Bark used as medicine, suckers in wicker and weaving, animal fodder
Fast growing shrub readily propagated by dormant cuttings. Bark a classic herbal antiinflammitory, excellent fast growing fodder for browsing livestock. Its impressive growth rate makes it a generous biochar feedstock and hugel and biomass generator, and a perfect source of infinitley useful flexible, straight plant material for weaving, wicker, wattle and daub fencing, living fences, biodomes, forts, garden posts, firewood, kindling, and more. Allow to grow out for a few years before beginning coppicing or pollarding training.
Latin Name: Salix purpurea. Family: Salicaceae (Willow)
USDA hardiness zone: 3
Growth habit: Shrub
Mature size: 20ft
Native range: Eurasia
Preferred habitat: Wetland edges, hedges
Pollinators: Wind
Edible parts: Bark as medicine
Uses and functions: Bark used as medicine, suckers in wicker and weaving, animal fodder
Fast growing shrub readily propagated by dormant cuttings. Bark a classic herbal antiinflammitory, excellent fast growing fodder for browsing livestock. Its impressive growth rate makes it a generous biochar feedstock and hugel and biomass generator, and a perfect source of infinitley useful flexible, straight plant material for weaving, wicker, wattle and daub fencing, living fences, biodomes, forts, garden posts, firewood, kindling, and more. Allow to grow out for a few years before beginning coppicing or pollarding training.
Latin Name: Salix purpurea. Family: Salicaceae (Willow)
USDA hardiness zone: 3
Growth habit: Shrub
Mature size: 20ft
Native range: Eurasia
Preferred habitat: Wetland edges, hedges
Pollinators: Wind
Edible parts: Bark as medicine
Uses and functions: Bark used as medicine, suckers in wicker and weaving, animal fodder
Fast growing shrub readily propagated by dormant cuttings. Bark a classic herbal antiinflammitory, excellent fast growing fodder for browsing livestock. Its impressive growth rate makes it a generous biochar feedstock and hugel and biomass generator, and a perfect source of infinitley useful flexible, straight plant material for weaving, wicker, wattle and daub fencing, living fences, biodomes, forts, garden posts, firewood, kindling, and more. Allow to grow out for a few years before beginning coppicing or pollarding training.
