Well, you can, but it needs to be done properly to avoid making it look like a bog brush. I'd suggest getting a proper arboriculturist to thin the crown - now is a good time of year.
Virtually any twig you stick into the ground will take root and grow.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The local florists sell 4 ft sections for 50p a twig. I wonder if i could sell some contorted hazel the same. (harry lauders walking stick) except mines much more contorted and twisted.
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Thank you all I thought it was a willow see not so clueless after all I do like contorted willow better than twisted
next can you prune it ??
Well, you can, but it needs to be done properly to avoid making it look like a bog brush. I'd suggest getting a proper arboriculturist to thin the crown - now is a good time of year.
Virtually any twig you stick into the ground will take root and grow.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The local florists sell 4 ft sections for 50p a twig. I wonder if i could sell some contorted hazel the same. (harry lauders walking stick) except mines much more contorted and twisted.
O'no I was going to shred them and compost them as I cut some lower branches off
James
I will keep some taller ones for my sweet peas then how do you stop them from rooting
If you prune them now and don't put them in the ground til next summer, they won't root
In the sticks near Peterborough
I wouldn't guarantee that Nut. Probably not in your dry soil, but I've known old willow sticks root in boggy Mid Suffolk clay
But James, if you use them as pea sticks and they root, they won't grow so big that you can't pull them out when the sweet peas go over.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough