What makes a Wonder Tree?

With willows it is the blend of beauty, diversity, adaptability, but above all usefulness whichmarksthem aside from many other temperate trees.

You can’t deny the tremendous virtues of oak and beech but when you plant these trees you are growing them for the future. With willow, you can watch a tree mature to full size within your own life time, or alternatively you can cut it down every year and it will produce new shoots that can be used as the raw material for any number of useful products and activities.

Winter stem collection 2

Willows are hard to beat for the diversity of winter stem colours on offer. These look great in a winter garden and when cut down will provide materials for many craft activities. This collection provides a range of vibrant colours.

£15.00
Willows for bees 2

Willow blossom proffers a great service during the spring months by providing an early source of nectar and pollen for foraging bees. Without this rich food source many bees would perish. This collection provides a range of willows that will keep your bees happy by producing a prolific show of catkins throughout the spring.

£15.00
Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys...
Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'

Spectacular variety with immature black catkins with red anthers becoming yellow at maturity. An unmistakeable sight when grown in an open position. Cut stems of this variety are a perfect foil for daffodils. Wonderful if set against a background of sky. This variety has an Award of Garden Merit from the RHS.

£9.50
Salix petiolaris

A North American species often used in basketry. Left to its own devices it will produce a multi stemmed tree with arching branchlets. It has slender, purple stems and compact pussy willows.

£8.50

Willow Fact

Tortured willow Salix matsudana ‘Tortuosa’

By most standards willows are very short lived trees. Most willows will live to no more than a century. However, because willows can be propagated from cuttings a particular tree can live forever. Cuttings taken from a parent plant are exact genetic copies or clones and therefore certain willows cultivated in ancient times are exactly the same as those still used today.

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