rooting curly willow twigs

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kitla
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rooting curly willow twigs

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There's a very tall spindly curly willow tree in the local wood & lots of pieces snapped off during the last gales. I brought some home & put them in a vase with some daffodils & inevitably they've grown roots! I've decided to try & grow one for my friend's wildlife paddock, also try growing several others in a clump and see if I can coppice them to keep them small to grow in my garden. Has anyone tried this? I've just potted them, I wonder if I should cut the stems short while they grow roots?
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I think as long as it is kept well watered (but not waterlogged), I'm sure it will be fine. I planted a willow tree at the bottom of my garden (just a bog standard tree) that I had er, acquired from some local woods (there were hundreds of little saplings - they would have got removed because they were right next to a footpath and in the way) ... I was a bit brutal yanking it out of the soil (a few roots snapped off) and then planted it as is in the garden. It's now very established with quite a sizeable trunk on it so I think willow trees generally arevery hardy.

Never heard of a corkscrew willow before (I've seen corkscrew hazel) and I bet it will look magnificent in the wildlife paddock )like(
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