He said he chopped it down and feed it, seems like forcing it to grow again since it didn't finish its flowering. If you want privacy screening you could find a native willow that has fast growth and copice it 2 or three times after it reaches 10-12 foot, they readily root so you can use the top to start a lot of them, plus, if you've got headaches you can use the bark to make dank aspirin water, works really well, and its loaded with rooting hormones so if you like transplanting or rooting cuttings you'll always have it, plus you never have to worry about it dying, or sprouting elsewhere, and eventually, it'll become a monumental tree, nothing quite as beautiful as a weeping willow. Over here our willows don't droop down, they're branching is more stout and short and it fans out instead.
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I will have a look for native willows. I know that it is a common thing to grow for the think branches that people make things with. Might be for another bit though, I have a bamboo fixation!
Quite impressive! I am definitely sold on the willow.
I have a giant bamboo, it is only a baby though. Two years old and just about thigh high with the odd shoot waist high. It's chusquea gigantica I think, apparently the canes when they start properly appearing canon be really think and massively tall like 30, 40 foot.
I like growing shit, it seems you do too. I like the idea of willow also for the dank aspirin bark water you mentioned. Herbal is good
I have had a look, most seem perfectly suited to here. They seem to like damp, wet boggy conditions which is kinda perfect for Scotland. Defo something I will get