Make Simple, Beautiful Garden Fences and Trellises

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April/May 2007
By Barbara Pleasant 
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Contributing editor Barbara Pleasant grows purple willow and violet willow for coppice in her North Carolina garden.
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  • Leigh Perry 4/30/2009 1:01:48 PM

    Hi!

    Can someone tell me of types of willow species that coppice well in hotter dryer areas, like Oklahoma? Cross Timbers area of the state. The ones mentioned are cold hardy, I need hot hardy, as we have long, hot, dry summers here.

    Leigh
    bdswagger@yahoo.com

  • Steve 6/17/2007 4:57:43 PM

    Hi. I enjoyed the article "Make Simple, Beautiful Garden Fences and
    Trellises". My wife Katherine Lewis and I grow basketry willow on
    our farm in the Pacific Northwest. We have a website
    www.dunbargardens.com which features info and photos of our
    favorite cultivars of willow, our list of cuttings which we
    sell,and Katherine's willow baskets which she weaves from the
    willow we grow. I wanted to comment on your choice of willows for
    coppicing. I would definitely add Salix triandra to your list for
    producing nice withies for projects like hurdles, fences and
    trellisses. Also, there is a wide variety of cultivars of the
    different species that produce a range of sizes and bark colors. We
    have found several varieties of S. purpurea and S. triandra which
    produce many slender non-branching stems with few pest problems.
    Cheers! Steve Lospalluto in Mount Vernon, WA

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