Willow Wands

[Kepis]

Eldest did some gardening yesterday and saved a load of materials for me in the form of a stuff load of Willow wands, the picture below shows only about half of what he saved for me

So after we went for a walk this afternoon, he and i sat in the garden stripping the leaves off the willow and trimming the ends up and generally tidying the wands up, ready to go into storage for a little while, whilst i decided what type of basket I'm going to attempt to weave from them, bonus is, up the lakes i have a mass of willow that I'm cultivating in one spot for just this type of project, I'm just waiting for the leaves to drop in the autumn so i can get up there and harvest that lot too, looks like a busy winter of basket weaving beckons, well it will, once i have the other lot harvested and prepped.

 

[shaggystu]

.....I'm just waiting for the leaves to drop in the autumn so i can get up there and harvest that lot....

i'm guessing that you're waiting for the leaves to drop simply to make it a bit easier when it come to processing the wands once they've been cut. am i right, or is there some other reason that i'm not aware of?

thanks in advance

stuart

 

[Kepis]

That's about the jist of it Stuart, just makes the processing so much easier & quicker

 

[shaggystu]

That's about the jist of it Stuart, just makes the processing so much easier & quicker

thanks for that

 

[Kepis]

no prob .

 

[SOAR]

Nice one! I look forward to seeing what you make with it.

 

[Kepis]

I have a few ideas, just need to see how much i can harvest from the lakes, should be a fairly substantial amount, then i can draw up the project list