Willows

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  January 2016

  When you like. Best when the leaves are off though, they're very easy, even I can do them.

  They're fun in a glass of water in the kitchen, you can watch the roots developing.

  Otherwise stick a piece in the ground

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Welshonion Posts: 3,114

  January 2016

  February is considered the best month, but yes, any month.

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  January 2016

  not with cuttings Tetley

  I think it's how I look after them, (or don't look after them). I know where to cut and all that stuff. 

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Invicta2 Posts: 663

  January 2016

  Not all willows come easily from cuttings. The group of willows we call"pussy willows" such as Salix caprea are quite hard to root from cuttings.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,140

  January 2016

  Salix caprea will root easily if they're in the side of a pond/ditch - they like 'mud'.  We once propped a duck's nest up with pussy willow stems from a large vase in the house as an emergency measure when we saw it toppling into the pond.  Now there's a large clump of pussy willow at the edge of the pond

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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