For Wildlife and Bees

For Wildlife and Bees

Willow is such a wonderful plant, our wildlife and our livestock simply love it!

We keep our bee hives near the willow beds to give the bees an easy source of food, particularly at lean times of the year. We feed willow to our dairy goats and to our ponies where it is a valuable, tasty, supply of roughage. Our rabbits and guinea pigs can‘t get enough of the branches, they love to chew them, fresh or dried, and our chickens free range in the willow beds controlling pests and enjoying the shade!

If you want to encourage bees and butterflies in your garden with an abundance of catkins, create a unique and attractive habitat for wildlife, or provide a ready supply of tasty fodder for your livestock or pets, willow really is worth planting. In these collections we have chosen the varieties that we think our creatures like the best. Let us know what yours think!

Have a look at this Youtube video, it shows the amazing variety of catkins that our willow create and you can see how the bees and insects love them!


Daphnoides "W"

Daphnoides "W" comes in 10"-12" cuttings. This willow has really bright red stems at the start of the year giving some wonderful colour on the plot. T...
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Eugenii

Eugenii comes in 10"-12" cuttings. This willow is really wonderful from spring until autumn. It produces lovely slender green rods reaching over 6' wi...
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Harrisons

Harrisons comes in 10"-12" cuttings. This willow has wonderfully straight, unbranched rods reaching up to 8' each year. They are a dark mottled green ...
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Oriental Shrubby Willow

Oriental Shrubby Willow comes in 10"-12" cuttings. This is a very tall, elegant willow probably originating from China. It has vivid green to red rods...
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Sachalinensis "Sekka"

Sachalinensis "Sekka" comes in 10"-12" cuttings. One of our absolute star willows, a stunning ornamental shrub, great winter colour and shape, a profu...
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Bori Pescara

Bori Pescara comes in 10"-12" cuttings. I love this really ornamental basketry willow. It has slender tall dark purple rods, very fine with green base...
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Melanostachys

Melanostachys comes in 10"-12" cuttings. This willow is just a little bit special! It is very unusual with rods that are acid green at the base and ti...
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