variety of salix purperea

Hands down my favourite variety—high producing lovely well tapered weavers, grows beautifully with lots of fine weavers. This produces slender and tall rods that are a joy to work wit, resistant to kinking, strong and ‘woody’, and yet so flexible! Dries to lovely dark greeny-blue that complements most other colours. It is amazing for uprights, ribs, weavers on any basket, rope handles, etc. It is one of the best willow for growing for fine weavers.

strength: a high volume of nice fine rods for weaving, excellent for uprights, resistant to kinking, dries a beautiful medium greeny-blue colour

colour: bluey-green

size: 3-6 foot