We have a range of lovely coloured willow for making baskets or garden structures like obelisks and dens. There are a limited number and the carriage for the length is expensive, so if you can pick them up yourself they will be cheaper!
They are nice to incorporate with cheaper bulk willow as stripes in basketwork. [for cuttings to grow your own see Bee plants section)
left to right in the photo;1. Viminalis (single cane shown; sold in bundles of 5)- the fast growing strong species for making dens, fedges, tunnels and bowers; 2. yellow (this others sold as finer & shorter for basketwork and weavers for structures; or longer and thicker when available for structures) -yellow also shown in between some of the others)); 3.Golden-green; 4.pale Green ( Salix vitalina); 5. Red (Britensis/ Chermezina - the best red); 6; Purple (Daphnoides) 7. mottled (Dark Dicks, colour not so striking, but you get longer lengths of same slim branchless canes) the last three bundles show thicker canes of 2,3 and 4.
available as bundles of 5 larger rods plus 15 shorter for obelisk or den construction, including instructions,
or 25 shorter rods for baskets etc. including carriage to mainland UK addresses.
Please specify if you want finer or thicker canes.
send an email to Jan@7wells.org to enquire about instructions, kits etc.
These live willow cuttings are sent out after the leaves fall in November through to February/March, when dormant, but can be ordered in advance by email. Search for 'willow cuttings collection' for cheaper, shorter cuttings to grow your own. Sorry! this price has to include the required £37 for courier delivery for packages over 2 metres in length! But if you are able to pick up the bundle from my house after the current Welsh Lockdown is over you will not have to pay that delivery charge. You have up until the end of March to plant the willow, and I can leave cutting them until I know you are coming to collect.
