looking for #### willow cuttings
Planning ahead---I am working on the wet place in my yard. I would like to put some #### willow trees in the back. I know they are easy to start--the ones I picked for vases as a kid always sent out roots--but I don't know where any are growing around here. Does anyone have any in their yard? If you do would you be willing to send me a couple of cuttings in the late winter? I am looking for cuttings about a foot long and about as thick as a pencil. Thanks guys!
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
edited to say: oh, this cracks me up. I've fallen afoul of the clean-living police. You know what I'm trying to say--salix discolor. Kitten willows? Fuzzy-frond willows? Early-spring gray catkin plant? Whatever :)
Edited 11/25/2006 8:34 pm ET by SarahC
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(post #11868, reply #1 of 10)
LOL "I've fallen afoul of the clean-living police." I wondered what those symbols meant! I had the same problem on a pet-finder website when I was looking for a female puppy. (I must say, they were rather snotty about it!)
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(post #11868, reply #2 of 10)
Apparently that was a too "salixious" post!
My occasionally catkin covered plants of the type you may be interested were really stressed last summer. Actually, they have looked kind of lousy ever since I put them in three years ago (I hate when idiot-proof plants do that).
If no one closer to you (I'm in S. New Jersey) offers any, and mine are still remotely alive in late winter, I'll be happy to share with the caution that these have not been the stars of Zippyland.
(post #11868, reply #3 of 10)
Thank you! Salixious--that is REALLY good.--S.
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
(post #11868, reply #4 of 10)
Hi SarahC,
What kind of willow? #### willow, weeping willow?
- Wendy
(post #11868, reply #5 of 10)
Hi again Sarah,
I just read your footer (I'm slow!). So you are looking for Salix discolor, also called #### Willow. My preference is the males, since I think they are prettier than the females when they bloom, more fuzzy and colorful with the stamens. Do you care?
Do I remember right? Are you in Massachusetts? I'll be glad to send you some cuttings when they are blooming (March or April) so I can be sure which is male and female, if it matters to you. I have access to plenty.
Yours, Wendy in Connecticut
(post #11868, reply #6 of 10)
Hi Wendy, I'm in Connecticut too, outside of Danbury. If I have a choice, I'd rather have the bigger males, but since I'm begging I won't be choosy. Thank you so much! I am after the 'kitten' willows, of course, I just can't write it without being censored :)
When it gets springish I will email you my address and I would be more than happy to pay for postage of course. Do you have any plants you are looking for? I am always trading things, so let me know.
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
(post #11868, reply #7 of 10)
Hi Sarah,
I'm next to New London, in the north end of Waterford called Quaker Hill, so you are not that far away about 1 1/2 hours. When the willows are blooming, let's just pick a day and you can drive over. You can take your own cuttings. I'm currently unemployed and recovering from surgery, so I'm home almost all the time. I'll even give you a guided tour of the Connecticut College Arboretum. Our property abuts the Arboretum. If you are a birder, bring your binoculars. We are on a major migration route.
Yours, Wendy
(post #11868, reply #8 of 10)
Sounds great!
I spent a year convalescing once and I thought I would never be me again, but here I am, happily ever after. Hope your recovery is going well.
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
(post #11868, reply #9 of 10)
Boy! I am getting older and outta step, here. I assumed the ##### was the number of cuttings you wanted. Ours is not a kitten willow, but in the past 30 years has wept its way into becoming a stalwart wailing willow about 50 to 60 feet tall by about 50 ft overhang that needing haircuts twice a season.
(post #11868, reply #10 of 10)
That sounds pretty. I would love to plant a weeping willow on the edge of our pond, but I'm afraid a willow would empty the pond out. It's small and spring-fed, but it's not only fed by the spring, it also is emptied out by the spring. In early August, when the water table drops, the water in the pond sinks back down the spring. It can lose 2 feet in 2 days. By late August it is usually frog concentrate. Every 3rd year or so it empties completely and then my husband mows it to keep the cat tails and waterlilies in check. I wonder if there is a 20 or 30' variety of weeping willow?
But the #### willows are for the other wet spot in the yard. It is separated from the pond by ledge and the water just sogs out the soil. It is part-shade, so I have just put in winterberry, red osier dogwood, Siberian iris and camassia ?sp. There is a new baby redbud in a high spot with two baby dogwood (cornus florida) to come in the spring. I am going to move some lily-of-the-valley & ferns in there and there are already some high-bush blueberries. Then I will step back and see how it goes. Previously it was entirely populated by bittersweet, barberry and poison ivy.
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer