After the very unfriendly willow planting weather that has compressed the entire planting season into four very busy weeks, we’re finally away. We’ve just finished our largest structure to date, a 400 square foot willow maze of tunnels in the shape of a giant fish or sea serpent. We’ve also completed a large dome at [...]
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The willow will be dormant soon, so I’ve put together a list of maintenance tasks to keep your structure looking tip-top and not reverting to becoming a small grove of willow trees! You can download the list as a word document or PDF by clicking on the appropriate link: Living Willow Maintenance – Task List – Word [...] Living Willow Wales stall at Lampeter Apple Day Oct 10th 2009 Living Willow Wales (me and Lisa) did our first willow stall back on Oct 10th 2009 at the Lampeter Apple Day, and lots of fun it was too! Getting everything together was hard work but it seemed to be appreciated. And we even had enough [...] We (Living Willow Wales) will be having our first ever willow based stall at Organics Apple Day on Saturday Oct 10th at 11am until 3am. From their site: “It’s apple and pear time of the year. In our shop we are now selling a wide range of UK produced apples and pears. To celebrate this year’s [...] This is a bug hotel Lisa and I (Living Willow Wales) had a lot of fun building back on a glorious day in June this year at Ysgol Pontrhydfendigaid. There are more photos here. And you can also download instructions for making a bug palace. We had a fantastic turn out of parents and children on the Saturday we spent creating this structure; the head teacher had done a great job of rallying support for the day. It felt like a real summer party atmosphere with people picnicing around the site in the sunshine and the children playing around the [...] The caption reads “Some members of Ysgol Cilcennin in their new “Willow Dome”. The children helped build the dome, and once fitted with curved benches will serve as play area and fair-weather classroom”. One of our structures, that we built with a workshop at Ysgol Cilcennin, was featured in the Cambrain News on March 19th 2009. There are [...] |
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