Willow Cuttings - Dunbar
Gardens (USA) Katherine Lewis is a willow basketmaker located in the Skagit Valley of
Washington State. She has a small farm named Dunbar Gardens where she grows much
of the willow used in her baskets. She offers finished baskets, willow basketry
supplies, willow basketry workshops and willow basket making demonstrations.
Willow Growers -
Somerset Levels and Moors (UK)
Based in the Somerset Levels, the heart of the willow industry, PH Coate and Son
has been growing 'Withies' and producing wicker baskets and willow products
since 1819.
Willow Plants - Bluestem
Nursery (USA and Canada)
Willows are sold in the Spring as unrooted 8" cuttings and as plugs (rooted
cuttings) which are available throughout the growing season. Willow cuttings are
shipped from March 1 to June 15. Willow plugs are shipped throughout the growing
season. Willow rods are shipped from approximately mid-March to mid-May. Several
varieties have colorful
barks
as shown on Bluestem Nursery's site. The site also features a lot of
informational content on willow cultivation and uses in basketry, environmental
sculpture, living willow structures and furniture. There even is an article on
the magical properties of "willow
water".
Willow Glen Nursery (USA)
Lee Zieke Lee, a willow expert and her husband, Lindsay,
own Willow Glen Nursery, 3512 Lost Mile Road, in Decorah, Iowa.
Willow
Growing Instruction
Making Willow Cuttings
Explanation by Bonnie Gale in the 1997 American Willow Growers Network Newsletter.
Notes On Planting Tips on establishing and maintaining a willow bed from The Willow Bank.
Willow
Cultivation Advice
Cultivation instructions and advice for planting living willow garden structures
and establishing willow beds. Care and preservation of dried willow sculptures
for home and garden from the Dancing Trees gallery of garden art and sculpture
in Brooke, Oakham.
Willow
Gardening Tips
Planting and growing tips about basket willows.
From Dunbar Gardens.
Willow
Positioning Guide
West Wales Willow provides this article that will
recommend varying "preferred" positions and growing conditions for certain species
of willow.
Willow
Rods
Cultivated
Willow Rods - English Basketry Willows Brown, white and buff rods in a variety of lengths, both at retail and wholesale
prices. Books, patterns, kits, tools and finished baskets by Bonnie Gale.
Musgrove Willows Established willow growers on the Somerset Levels, UK. Web site features pictures of willow products, willow growing
and harvesting.
Additional
Willow Resources
American Willow
Growers Network
Founded in 1988 by Bonnie Gale this was a network of people with an interest in willow.
Network was curtailed in 2008, but back issues of the newsletter are available.
Come and Join
in the BasketMakers
Forum. Lots of friendly basketweavers are gathered there. Click
on "Guest"
to enter and read-only or join if you want to post (it's free).
Here is a list of some of the most recent Topics being discussed:
