LIVING FENCE DIY green screen from crosshatched willows!

[@ntur117]

Ohhhhh wow!!!! This is beautiful!!!! I love your ideas and coaching 😊💕

[@Blossomandbranch]

Thank you so much!!😊

[@britt518]

So excited for you! I’ve been dying to do something with willow. Living Willow structures for the kids or a fence like you’re doing. So fun!

[@threeriversforge1997]

I've wanted to do that same thing for awhile, but I just can't bring myself to get started. So much else going on around the homestead, that adding one more task to the list is a bit daunting! Salix purpurea and Salix americana are on my radar, though, and if I happen to accidentally stumble on a few when I'm out and about..... I don't think you'll regret having the willow fence. If nothing else, you've now got a lifetime supply of wood to use around the land and can start offering basket-weaving classes!

[@OneAtomicJenga]

omg I've been obsessing over this idea all winter and really, really want to do this in my space also. Perfectly timed and lovely video!

[@mistygeller3193]

What a beautiful idea and for so many reasons, as you mentioned!! I’m excited to see how it develops! And congratulations on your remodeling project, looks like it’s really coming along nicely!!

[@gordonstewart8258]

We aren’t in Colorado any more but when we were, we learned there is a native variety of willow that maxes out at about 8 feet. It is used in low areas that collect runoff with a fist-sized rock mulch. Xeriscape technique I learned that was lovely solution to dry-wet swings. Saw it used in a swale carrying street drainage to a small lake. Attractive, water purifying, and little to no maintenance.

[@modelno2004]

Thank you for reading my mind! I saw this in your last vid and forgot to comment to ask how to do this!

[@veronicadoggone5660]

"I might regret this in 10yrs, will find out"... a few decades later 😂

[@jsquart]

We had a few of these back east and always wanted to put one in out here. Always assumed it’s too dry to make it work out here in CO since they’re a wetland species. Please keep us posted!

[@deniseb2571]

Beautiful

[@crystalpung6410]

Where do you get your ties? I am working on this project right now and have not been happy with what I found.

[@limitlessends]

Where did you order your willow from? Any advice on how to find a reputable willow farm? Also your outfits are so cute 🥰 both rugged for working but feminine and cottage core.

[@jennyjohnson5428]

Living Willow Farms, she said

[@glidewatch]

Do we need to start a Crowdfunder to buy you a pair of hand secateurs for your trimming? But it would spoil the most charming, delightful and endearing sight of you using the giant loopers to make these small cuts 🙂 !! Lovely project, well explained. Thank you.

[@AnnaKincaid]

This is going to be fun to see what it looks like next year. How exciting! 😍 Also I am so excited to see and hear about your remodling!

[@kaye700]

Where did you get your trousers? They are so cute!!

[@annanelson7270]

So cool! What variety of willow did you plant? Any recommendations for native (US) willow variety to use for a living fence?

[@ProfCirillo]

I just wanted to tell you, I started petunias way too early, not sure what I was thinking. I did some in your soil blocking recipe and they are dark green and gorgeous. The ones I have in pots are yellowing. Same exact care of both, but the ones in the coco loco potting soil mixed with blended up sheep's wool pellets still look amazing.

[@Blossomandbranch]

I’m so glad to hear! My peppers are looking amazing too, everything growing faster in there!!

[@whitneyb4020]

I just watched your video on no till/lasagna/till beds and had a question. I am in zone 10a and do t get a hard frost (some years we dont even get a light frost). What do you recommend to do with cover crops in these instances? I would like to try them this year, but not sure if i would need to cut them back at a certain time or if there are certain types that are better when we dont have a frost to kill them back? Thanks!

[@jimmieyoung925]

Can aso use trimmings as livestock feed no having to import hay. More money saved always a plus for the homestead

[@Sylvan_dB]

How did the willow "fence" do its first summer?

[@markdecker2724]

Nice video. Could you tell me what the fasteners are you used, and where to get them please?

[@britt518]

Any idea what variety is good for the southeast?

[@rickeversole776]

Cool!

[@alexandrashier5216]

If you have a hedge trimmer, once it gets to the hight you want, it will be awesome for growing mulch! (Herbivores also enjoy willow if you have animals, (im a new subscriber that hasnt yet binge watched your videos 😉)

[@mcroftjr]

Where did you source the rubber ties?

[@andrumccracken1883]

How is your willow fence? Tips for any areas that didn't take?

[@titaa9227]

The mature message you show near the beginning does not have any clips or ties. Can those be avoided by doing a kind of basket weaving or pinning them to the wall? And would they not eventually strangle the shorts? Not to mention, more plastic! How about loosely turning with Hemp, that might degrade in time while the shorts strengthen? Thanks for the tutorial.

[@Blossomandbranch]

You can eventually remove the ties once they are trained and thicker. The benefit of using these is that they stretch with the growth of the trees where hemp twine will girdle. I’m all for going plastic free as much as possible but using a rubber product is ok in my book in a case like this, k don’t have time to untie and retie 650 connectors each year.

[@titaa9227]

@@Blossomandbranch btw, what do you think of using forsythia whips for this?? I've got tons as raw material!!

[@GRPermie]

This is a timely video, I have started a similar hedge just on a smaller scale with about foot fall cuttings. Please post a follow-up video in the future. :)

[@jimmieyoung925]

Depending on where you live money saver living fence is not taxed

[@Blossomandbranch]

Now that’s interesting!

[@Rootcraft_UK]

Are you not concerned, that the willow will root out and grow up on your neighbours side of the fence as an unintended semi-invasive species? In the same way bamboo does? You don’t tend to reply to my comments, but here’s trying. I’m just wondering if you, or your neighbours might regret this?

[@Blossomandbranch]

Nope! Do your research first but there are varietals that don’t sucker. :) we also discussed with our neighbor first, we are lucky that they don’t care a smidge. :)

[@mariannedickson3840]

You're gonna need a whole lot of water!