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MJ
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We used to get our withies fae the railway banks. A wee bit safer would be some where like http://www.willowwithies.co.uk/about_us/index.htm 150 rods for £30, sorry not very local though.
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I got mine from Freecycle.
Chap at Turriff who prunes a large willow hedge every year.
I think I got them about march or April. If I can find his email, I could ask him if you could have some off him in the spring. I took basically as much as would fit in the back of the Trooper pick-up and could have taken more if I'd had room.
PM me if you're interested. I got over 50% that took and they sat around a while before I planted a lot of them
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Smooth Hound
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at sometime over the next few weeks , i will be cutting my home grown rods     :walk: 
no seriously, im planting i long live willow hedge, if anyone wants to make arrangements to watch/help :oops: feel free  |
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Maria
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Me - just say when  |
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Smooth Hound
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| when, ok ill let you know when |
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| davyravy wrote: | | Went to a local nursery asking about cost of willow rods - reckoned £1 each. As am hoping to plant about half an acre - that price would bankrupt me! - any ideas on cheaper sources? |
only just seen this, which is a shame, did you get your whips, personally id be using cuttings, if you are still looking for some then pm me, you could still plant them thisyr if your quick, some wont make it, but you could replace those in the winter, and it would be nothing like a pound a whip  maybe some kind of exchange like a bit of help on my allotment as im struggling due to having had an operation recently.
your also quite welcome to see my coppice, to get an idea as to what you do or dont want.
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JamesB
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject: willow cuttings |
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willow roots very easily from cuttings.
we bought some willows from Bob at FTN one year and every year we take cuttings and in most cases just stick them in the ground and they grow, it really is the easiest tree to make cuttings from.
in terms of fuel then it is going to be very labour intensive as a fuel source unless you do as the professionals do and harvest by machine and its not a particularly good fuel. just bear that in mind, if you want it only as fuel for a wood burner then there are more suitable trees such as ash which can be coppiced very well
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JoH
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| Does Andrew Saunders at Colpy not still 'farm' willow? |
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