Willow and Poplar (cuttings & sets)
Most Salix (Willow) and some Populus (Poplars) can easily be grown from unrooted hardwood cuttings and sets (longer lengths), inserted vertically into the soil. Often trees raised in this way in their final planting positions grow better and faster than young plants which are already rooted. Expect a minimum of 3-4ft of growth in average conditions and 6-8ft at best over a season. Cuttings are taken from our nurtured mother plants to produce quality planting material.
Salix (Willow) species/varieties: acutifolia ‘Blue Streak’; aegyptiaca; x ‘Aegma Brno’; alba; alba ‘Aurea’; alba ssp.caerulea, (cricket bat willow); alba var. ‘Sericea’; alba ssp. vitellina Britzensis; alba ssp. vitellina ‘Nova’; babylonica; caprea; cinerea and variegated form Tricolor; cordata; daphnoides; eleagnos; exigua; fragilis; gracilistyla ‘Melanostachys’; hookeriana; pentandra; phylicifolia; purpurea; purpurea ‘Howki’; x rubens ‘Basfordiana’; x sepulcralis var chrysocoma (Golden Weeping Willow); x sepulcralis ‘Erythroflexuosa’; triandra ; udensis ‘Sekka’; viminalis; and a few others.
Populus (Poplar) species/varieties: Populus nigra ssp. Betulifolia; x acuminata; alba x ‘Grandidentata’ alba ‘Pyramidalis’; alba ‘Richardii’; ‘Balsam spire’ (TxT 32); candicans ‘Aurora’; x canadensis ‘Aurea’; ‘Columbia’; ’Robusta’; ‘Serotina’; x interamericana ‘Beaupre’; nigra ‘Italica’; simonii ‘Fastigiata’, szechuanica tibetica; trichocarpa ‘Fritzi Pauley’; yunnanensis.
Poplars which cannot be grown from hardwood cuttings include Grey Poplar and Aspen. Some willows like Salix magnifca are diffcult to grow from hardwood cuttings and we usually sell these as rooted plants.
Willow and Poplar pricing
Cuttings: 9-12”
£6.50 per ten, £21.00 per fifty
Sets (3-4 ft depending on species)
£3.50 each, £14.50 per ten
Selected sets, vigorous varieties (5-7 ft.)
£4.75 each, £21.00 per ten
(All prices are exclusive of VAT)
Also some varieties available in larger sizes – POA – particularly Cricket Bat Willow, Salix alba, Salix fragilis and Hybrid