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Weeping willow planting along eroding bank
primrosecottage
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Morning guys
what a difference a day makes wet and windy today so garden designing 
I've got a lovely willow in the corner of the garden right next to the stream(dyke??) On the other side along the boundary the water flow is eroding the bank if I planted willow branches would they help stabilise it or just get washed away. And is it too late to give it a go, coz I must give the big tree a prune.
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No personal experience but went to a open event re flood defences in the fens. They're removing trees and sowing grass. Tree don't prevent erosion because there's nothing on the surface of the soil. The erosion of your opposite bank will be down to the way the current flows rather than the presence or absence of a tree. Give it a few years and you may have an oxbow lake
In the sticks near Peterborough
Around here they're using brushwood faggots to protect and stabilise river banks
here's a picture and description of how they work
http://coppice-products.co.uk/product-type/faggots/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
'O' Level geography, many, many years ago: Deposition on the inside bend, erosion on the outside bend'
If the outside bend is/was the boundary, and your garden is on the inside bend (have I read it right?), then your garden is gradually getting larger
Until the stream decides to change its course anyway!
Thanks guys for your input
yes buttercup that's how it is spot on the field posts are hanging a cross the bend and the farmer will have to put more in before any cows and their youngster are put in to graze .I've looked at the faggot clip Dove and although we have loads of Alder coppice on our side of the water we could use instead of burning it I'm unsure it would hold tight when the flow comes down. . Will look at the Sep a sight Brenda to see what they are doing and when. Will let you know how I get on .It's blowing a hooley now and raining so lots of time to think 