Making a woven living willow sculptural archway

In this video I weave some willow shoots into a sculptural, living willow arch over a pathway.
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[@2Hearts3]

What a great idea! Beautiful, and will keep getting better! Show us how it looks in weeks to come 😃👍

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

I really love willow structures!

[@thewisceeeggg1624]

That shows in your delight to share this project with viewers!

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

@@thewisceeeggg1624 with lots more to come.

[@threeriversforge1997]

Around the homestead, I've found nothing better than good ol' tarred marline for everyday outdoor lashing tasks. You can make your own if you have a boating supply house or veterinarian around. Just soak some cotton butcher's twine in the pine tar (Stockholm Tar) and it'll last for ages. The pine tar is great for applying to sores and rashes, too. Plus, it smells great. If you don't have a hank of Stockholm Tar on the shelf, you're not living right. That stuff is fantastic for treating your wooden tool handles, and generally preserving things.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Willow structues are great. I had great fun with them when I had a garden. I look forward to your updates!

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

We've lots more in the process of growing out, too. I love them.

[@heenanain]

Sooo cool!!! It’s very exciting to see the willow sides turning into a beautiful arch👏🏼💚 You make it look very easy and I am thoroughly inspired to plant one :)

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

You absolutely should!

[@jodylagos4543]

So awesome. I now have a willow fen now and so going to do this too. Thank you. Everything i have learned and tried from y'all is working. Thanks for the update

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

Fantastic! Thanks.

[@emilyfelgate5550]

Brilliant video, gave me all the information I needed for how to make my willow archway. Thank you. 👍

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

We have a longer video on making an arch coming up too.

[@Smith.S.E.]

Wish I could fast-forward the real time to see how the trees are doing in the future

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

I really enjoy looking t clips from a few years ago, for that reason!

[@Smith.S.E.]

@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Can't wait for the next walk through of the trees and waterworks to see how things have developed

[@janxious]

Nice, love this kinda stuff! That's a sizeable arch!

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

And the next one is significantly bigger!

[@poisonivy2677]

Wow, I can't wait to see updates on this in future years.

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

Thanks!

[@dorcassinclair]

Brilliant, that is going to be looking really good!

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

I get to join up the big archway in the car park this year, that's going to look pretty good I hope.

[@hqprivat]

I have got some willows in my garden. Thanks for the inspiration! ☺

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

You are so welcome!

[@FoxyintheForest]

@patagonia Workwear hemp canvas overalls, working overtime on this regenerative farm! 🙂 I'm so glad to see them in action!

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

A video will be coming soon!

[@JG-kn7ew]

Awesome! Do these stay alive? And continue to live and grow

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

It's thriving.

[@matthewdoughty7752]

Great stuff, thanks!! What species of willow are you using?

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

I work with quite a few varieties, but this was an unknown type salvaged as cuttings when the power company were clearing under the power lines a few miles away.

[@The1Green4Man]

Is a weeping willow good for this or do I need to search for a specific willow species?

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

Just about any willow will work, but I've not worked with weeping willow myself. I've had best results with varieties I've been given from people's gardens, locally.

[@The1Green4Man]

@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture thanks for getting back to me, do you know what those varieties are?

[@batintheattic7293]

If you had those arches dotted around, everywhere, would it baffle the road noise?

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

I only use arches over pathways, elsewhere I have willow hedges.

[@colinvanful]

this is nothing tbh! i planted 200 willow 12 years ago on my freinds farm . now he has awillow arch , 12 ft apart and at least 15 ft high and a hondred yards long at the least . it is almost like walking into a fairytale book walking down a willow arched road big enough to drive a tractor down :)

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

200? I stopped counting willow plantings when we hit the 5000 mark. That's on top of the 10,000 mixed species in the shelterbelt. This is human scale infrastructure, I don't use a tractor because of the soil compaction.

[@batintheattic7293]

That does not look like my willow. Recently, came off Sertraline and had horrible dull crunchy headaches (I could hear my eyes moving FFS!) and I could not get pre-made aspirin for love or money. Not anywhere. I tried. So I used my willow. Which may, now I see yours, not actually be willow. I'm only now starting to get something like full feeling back in the right side of my face (still a bit Nova-caned top lip and under my eye - but it's slowly coming back)! Mine has much broader leaves. It did chase the headache off, though.

[@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture]

There's a huge amount of variation in willow leaf shape, depending on variety.

[@batintheattic7293]

When you add in a strand - it seems to make that side more erect. Each strand will alter the shape. Be careful with that!