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Willow tree

thefaerymaker90841thefaerymaker90841 Posts: 3
in Problem solving
Hello, my dwarf willow has snapped about 10cm from base! Is it possible to strip back branches from the head and replant??
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Willow will usually root easily … if you show us a photo or two of what you have … both parts of the tree … we’ll be able to make some suggestions. 

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    The rooted remains should soon resprout.  But you will have to retrain to an elegant shape.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited 23 January
    If the dwarf willow referred to is a grafted standard lollipop type or similar, what grows from the rooted remains will be a very different type of willow to that which @thefaerymaker90841 had originally. 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, and it will probably not be a nice one either. You are probably better off trying to root the top growth, or cuttings from it.
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  • thefaerymaker90841thefaerymaker90841 Posts: 3
    This is what im left with at base, from googling it seems that if i cut this at 45 angle it will reshoot and I'll be left with a straggly bush of a thing or snip off unwanted shoots leaving just a few i may have something resembling a tree in about 10 yrs?
  • thefaerymaker90841thefaerymaker90841 Posts: 3
    this is the part i would really like to salvage if possible, if i trim the top right back and replant would this work or is it just wishful thinking!
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Easiest to root a Thin young growth.  I take the point about graft.  Is that a graft swelling about 1/4 height.  It looks like the plant had once been a corkscrew-willow and reverted to regular,
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • salarsalar Posts: 11
    The same thing happened to me just bought another to replace it and moved it to another part of garden.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    You could try cutting out some sections of the trirly section, stand them in water, and leave them alone for a few months. One or two pieces might grow roots. It will not be a dwarf though, they are grafted onto dwarfing stock so will probably grow into big trees.. I think the best thing to do will be to replace the whole tree with a new one.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I don’t think that is correct, the rootstock will just be a standard willow and the grafted top will be the chosen species.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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