Cultivation and Use of Basket Willows
Cultivation and Use of Basket Willows
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A very useful, 40 page, full colour A4 booklet. Perfect for anyone considering growing or using willow for basket-making. Full details on cultivation, siting, harvesting, grading and processing.
Also a useful section on Pest, disease and Weed control and most useful set of tables of the willow varieties and their characteristics. Well worth the money in our view.
A comprehensive book with all the information you need if you are considering growing your own willow.
Soil types, position and types of willow all inclusive.
This is the book I've been unknowingly looking for. Having recently taken over a (small) willow allotment in poor to moderate condition, I needed to identify the positive and negative features of the site.
This book gives the tools to approach the management of the - in this case- pollards, and to plan the next steps in ensuring the site remains productive and well cared for.
Identification with photographs of the willow species mentioned would have made this a willow 'bible' but even without this I now have the confidence and the information to progress to planting and preparation of the willow that I need. I am very grateful that such a book as this exists. I only wish I had encountered it a little more readily. It seems you have to be 'in the know' before you'll come across it.
A great book, comprehensive and packed with most of the information you'll need to manage willow growing for basketry. It's reasonably priced. Buy it. You won't regret it!
I love it! I was so grateful to be able to get this publication for reasonable shipping costs from the UK...and so quickly. Thank you so much!
A short but information packed book. I have read it already and found I was paying attention to every word. If you needed to know anything about the production, history, uses and varieties of willow, then this is the book. It answers those questions that most of the other books on this craft somehow don't. I thoroughly recommend this book and feel having read it that I have a much better understanding of the subject.
I grow willow and make baskets already, but this booklet gave me new insights into the history of basket willow in the UK and aspects of harvesting.