The wire will have to be loosend every so often so as to not girdle the trees as they grow. But they will help the cambiums to fuse, creating a single organism like a graft would. All the best on your journey, I am actually writing a book about living willow structures, and my own personal ideas, designs, and take on the craft. It is still in the works though. Greetings from the west coast of Canada! (Hot tip; Have your willow ends poke upwards at the terminal peaks, and force the graft at the joints, and pollard above the fuse at your personally desired height. Weaving downward against sap flow is not advised, as the weave will often die back. Your welcome!)
Glad you enjoyed our first attempt, thank you for the brilliant advice, I’ll certainly try that out on the next attempt! Let us know when the book is released 🤩
It reminds me of when I as a child made a willow structure to make a coracle boat of planting in a circle and tying it together with weaved smaller willow shoots, it took about 5 years before we cut it at the base and draped tarpaling over it and made that boat. I returned 25 years later and there is still a circle of very healthy willows growing there in Ireland. So pleased that you are growing a living monument and loving your videos, all the best from tour Father in Law, Will.
Love this video! Was lovely to see you and your dad working together on a cool structure! Hi Echo! I think you did a fab job and can’t wait to see it grow and change over the next years!
Cheers James 👊🔥 Ditto! I’ve just added a whole bunch of your videos to my watchlist 😁 You might be interested in a short doc I made with bushcraft/ primitive skills TH-camr Fandabi Dozi where I learnt more about how he creates. Search “17th Century Highlander teaches me how to make TH-cam videos” on our channel, I’d love to see what you think!
hello. It’s exciting to see people working with this medium. Our property sits in the mountains but on an unusual water deposit in Santa Cruz, California. I knew this one we bought the house because a good one fourth of the property is bordered by pussy willows! It must’ve taken them hundreds of years to fill in the way they have like a little wild forest. I recently had a bunch of my friends help me and we created a living willow labyrinth. Including several dome structures. This was just done a few weeks ago. We’re racing against time trying to get everything in the ground before the rain stops. But if all goes well, it’s going to be quite a fantasticspace.
Not much different 😂 I think it’ll be growing more this year into the future but it takes a few extra years to get established compared to if it had been planted amongst a weed suppressing membrane in wetter ground.
@@Ficusforev There were about 3 varieties but I can only remember one, Welsh white. If you take a look at the “willow farm for free” video on this channel I go into a little more detail about the varieties that we had planted into the fields 👍
To be honest not too different, if you check our Instagram I’ll put up some images of it today 👍 What I’ve realised is it seems (depending on soil type and how wet the ground is) it takes a year to establish the root system so not much happens above ground. If we had put cardboard or some other weed suppressing membrane this would have gone quicker I think. That said I’ve generally found with the few hundred canes we’ve planted overall that it will root just the same if not better if it was 2-5 years old rather than the general consensus that canes of only 1 year growth size need to be planted because they will grow quicker. Willow wants to grow, anywhere and anyway it can 😁
The wire will have to be loosend every so often so as to not girdle the trees as they grow. But they will help the cambiums to fuse, creating a single organism like a graft would. All the best on your journey, I am actually writing a book about living willow structures, and my own personal ideas, designs, and take on the craft. It is still in the works though. Greetings from the west coast of Canada! (Hot tip; Have your willow ends poke upwards at the terminal peaks, and force the graft at the joints, and pollard above the fuse at your personally desired height. Weaving downward against sap flow is not advised, as the weave will often die back. Your welcome!)
Glad you enjoyed our first attempt, thank you for the brilliant advice, I’ll certainly try that out on the next attempt!
Let us know when the book is released 🤩
It reminds me of when I as a child made a willow structure to make a coracle boat of planting in a circle and tying it together with weaved smaller willow shoots, it took about 5 years before we cut it at the base and draped tarpaling over it and made that boat. I returned 25 years later and there is still a circle of very healthy willows growing there in Ireland. So pleased that you are growing a living monument and loving your videos, all the best from tour Father in Law, Will.
Thank you 😊
What a great memory to be able to go back to!
Now we know the project you can help me with when you come and visit, make a coracle 😁
Would love to see an update video now that it's a year on!
Love this video! Was lovely to see you and your dad working together on a cool structure! Hi Echo! I think you did a fab job and can’t wait to see it grow and change over the next years!
Thank you 😊
There’ll have to be a doggy crossover 😂
Like Enki, Inanna & Echo ASMR while out in the wilderness 😂
I just found this channel! can't wait for more videos
Cheers James 👊🔥
Ditto! I’ve just added a whole bunch of your videos to my watchlist 😁
You might be interested in a short doc I made with bushcraft/ primitive skills TH-camr Fandabi Dozi where I learnt more about how he creates.
Search “17th Century Highlander teaches me how to make TH-cam videos” on our channel, I’d love to see what you think!
Saalut!A. epic footage.
Thank you 😊
Watching you running around with a stick makes me nostalgic.
Haha how come!? 😂
Chasing a getaway sheep?
Nice work!
hello. It’s exciting to see people working with this medium. Our property sits in the mountains but on an unusual water deposit in Santa Cruz, California. I knew this one we bought the house because a good one fourth of the property is bordered by pussy willows! It must’ve taken them hundreds of years to fill in the way they have like a little wild forest. I recently had a bunch of my friends help me and we created a living willow labyrinth. Including several dome structures. This was just done a few weeks ago. We’re racing against time trying to get everything in the ground before the rain stops. But if all goes well, it’s going to be quite a fantasticspace.
Wow that sounds like a fantastic project, something I’d love to do in future 😍
Good luck getting it all planted in time!
Would be interesting to see an update. See how it looks green
@@Bos_Taurus In short not much has happened 😁
But I’m aiming to do an update late winter when we can get back as sadly we don’t live nearby.
What does it look like now?
Not much different 😂
I think it’ll be growing more this year into the future but it takes a few extra years to get established compared to if it had been planted amongst a weed suppressing membrane in wetter ground.
Do you now what type of willow it is ?
@@Ficusforev There were about 3 varieties but I can only remember one, Welsh white.
If you take a look at the “willow farm for free” video on this channel I go into a little more detail about the varieties that we had planted into the fields 👍
@@agreatalternative ok thanks 👍🏻
When do we get the spin off show with just your dad and Echo! Great video
Once we can afford them 😁
Cheers mate!
What does this look like now?
To be honest not too different, if you check our Instagram I’ll put up some images of it today 👍
What I’ve realised is it seems (depending on soil type and how wet the ground is) it takes a year to establish the root system so not much happens above ground.
If we had put cardboard or some other weed suppressing membrane this would have gone quicker I think.
That said I’ve generally found with the few hundred canes we’ve planted overall that it will root just the same if not better if it was 2-5 years old rather than the general consensus that canes of only 1 year growth size need to be planted because they will grow quicker.
Willow wants to grow, anywhere and anyway it can 😁
pound5 to sell ,pound5 traffic to sell or we generate traffic?