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    Living Willow Cathedral in Taunton

    I was very excited to see that a Willow Cathedral has been built in Taunton. I’ve been reading about Marcel Kabler’s creations in Germany for years.

    Glyncoch Community Garden – Willow dome

    I was down in the valleys on Saturday building a willow dome for the opening of their community garden.

    Basketry Willow Harvest

    Basketry Willow 2011 Harvest

    I’ve started harvesting some of our basketry willow, and for the first time this year I’ve started advertising our cuttings on eBay. Don’t they make a colourful bunch.

    More info at Living Willow [...]

    Cwrtnewydd Ysgol Living Willow Play Area

    Ysgol Cwrtnewydd Living Willow Play Area

    We’ve managed to go out with a bang again this year with the largest structure so far: a large tunnel enclosing a 5m area with three off-shoot tunnels and domes using 1100 rods.

    More information on the Living Willow Wales [...]

    Llanon School Living Willow Fish complete

    I recently popped out and put the finsihing touches to Llanon School’s Living Willow Fish by firming the ground around the rods (the ground has been too hard up to now) and finishing off with woodchip.

    There is more information at the Living Willow Wales [...]

    Living Willow Maintenance

     

    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 [...]

    Living Willow Wales at the Lampeter Apple Day

    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 [...]

    Organics Apple Day

    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 [...]

    Willow season hotting up

    So it’s that time of year again – it’s autumn and it’s TREE TIME! The popularity of the living willow structures are continuing and we’re starting to get the first calls of the season from the schools. We’re also getting interest from fetes, fairs and schools about doing displays. This doesn’t really work with the [...]

    Willow harvest, garlic tops and hedge laying

    Just rediscovered this blog I was so keen about last year. Events of the moment: first shoots of music garlic popping up; 40m of very sexy hedge laying completed which my dad very helpfully came and lent a hand with (phew! 5m a day); harvested bundled and sold the entire willow harvest (primary schools [...]