We love our Dappled willow- we only have two and they are about 4 years old and have started to get unruly, but I have to say I almost cried when I saw how low you cut them! I can't wait to watch the rest of your playlist, so I can learn how to propagate! Thank you for sharing this information!
@GardenSanity
Ай бұрын
I can imagine your reaction when we cut these down 😱😢 but we were desperate to start them over because we also love them! Had I been pruning them better, we probably would have avoided such a drastic move. It has been quite a journey with our Dappled Willow! 😊 Growing them all from one original plant - which eventually didn’t make it, which was SO upsetting - and being able to add new seedlings has been really enjoyable over the years. I think you will enjoy propagating them! ❤️🪴Keep me posted!
@paulineanderson3985
3 жыл бұрын
Laura, thankyou for your 2 videos on these willows. I also have one which is growing horizontal and I have been undecided about pruning it. You have helped me make up my mind, I also will take some cuttings at the same time. Please do a follow-up video in May or June so we can see how they are doing. Have a good day.
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Pauline! I will definitely be doing updates to show how they're rebounding. We did this coppicing on March 6, and the first buds showed up on March 25! Very happy to see them!
@TracysHomeGarden
3 жыл бұрын
I don’t have dappled willow in my garden, but whenever I walk by a garden with them in the spring (my neighbour planted 3 last year), the beautiful & stunning new growth never fails to catch my attention....love the light pale pink colour. Great 👍 tips Laura! Happy gardening! 💚🪴
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Tracy! As you can imagine, I can't wait for the new growth to kick in, and to see the beautiful Spring color again!
@kittenkorleone2918
3 жыл бұрын
I told hubby to bring home the Sawzall from his work garage so I can cut mine down today! I've been to afraid to do it the past couple years while knowing that these trees are hard to kill. The thought of such radical trimming caused me to do nothing for fear that somehow I'd mess it up. Now feeling regret year after year and seeing this video has prompted me to act.
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Hooray! We are seeing new buds now, all over the stumps! So excited for the new fresh start this year. Let me know it goes for you!
@lisajhay4387
3 жыл бұрын
Hi from Portsmouth UK… I just bought one Willow Flamingo/Salix today from my local supermarket for only £10 ($8) and it’s very tall trunk and the flower parts in the top. It’s not in a fairly large pot with compost …. Stones in bottom for drainage. I don’t have anywhere in the ground to plant it as such as my beds are literally awful to dig down as it’s very hard and full of brick and stone so I don’t have many plants in my beds as yet. (Just moved here and chopped down three weeks worth of overgrown grass (8 feet tall) so it’s hard work, looking so much better now…. I have now viewed your videos and will try the cuttings method myself instead of buying another one. My Daughter is excited about this and loves planting… she was so determined to grow something we could eat we now have broccoli, spring onions and tomatoes coming along nicely! Love your channel and you have a lovely friendly and relaxing voice…. I will like and subscribe… Ty very much xx
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Lisa -- waving to you from across the pond! I'm super jealous that you were able to purchase a Dappled Willow (Flamingo) for only $8! Lucky you! You can keep your Flamingo Willow in its pot, and if it gets too big, you can transplant it into a larger pot. (In fact, if and when you do transplant it into a new pot, make it larger than you think it needs, and you'll be set for years! Make sure it gets lots of water, as pots dry out quicker than the soil in the ground. Equally impressed with your hard work on your new property so far! There's nothing more fun than starting a new garden! (Well, ok maybe there ARE other things equally fun but a new garden and new plants is right up there!) Keep me posted! And thanks for the compliments! 😊
@BS-j1965
3 жыл бұрын
Love all your info on the dappled willow!! Thank you so much!!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad!! 😊 And you're very welcome too!
@ikaraboutu
3 жыл бұрын
I just saw a Dappled Willow for the first time at my local Lowe’s and fell in love. Instead of buying I went straight to Google to make sure it would do well in our yard. Well, now I’ve come across both your blog post and this video and I will be going back to buy one plant tomorrow and see how I can get that to grow into multiple plantings over the next couple years. PS - which part of the country are you in where you are seeing this growth?
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
So glad you're purchasing one, and my "propagating from cuttings" video is coming soon! I'm in southern New Jersey, gardening zone 7. And I'm not surprised you fell in love when you first saw it: that's exactly what happened to me! And now look at me, or rather my multiple shrubs! 🤣 😂
@Terri_Stauffer
Жыл бұрын
Imagine I have to thank deer for keeping my dappled willow in check. They actually do a good job keeping it trimmed too and sides, it’s a nice round shape and I only clip a few stragglers that the deer missed. I was upset but now I see it’s a good thing. 😅
@GardenSanity
Жыл бұрын
Oh Terri -- you are indeed lucky they (the deer) trim it so well for you! My parents have an older Dappled Willow shrub, and the deer have used the main trunks to rub their antlers on, almost like they are trying to saw the trunk in half. 😫🙃 Glad to hear that your deer are pruning these properly! 👍😃💛
@claudiastahl9595
3 жыл бұрын
Laura, I can't thank you enough for your videos on the DW and the limelight hydrangea! Question (honesty check, maybe?) about the willow. I live close by (Philly burbs, zone 7) and have an enormous DW (over 10 years old) in my yard that I will plan to cut back (coppice) in the same way next winter, since I'm thinking the window might have passed for this year (It's already leafed out). We're in our 50s, and my husband has made it clear that he wants to cut WAAAAAYY back on yard maintenance, which we do ourselves. However, I've been having irrational fantasies about taking cuttings from our monster DW and starting a willow wall along our back fence line, where drainage is an issue (despite remediation efforts). SO...you were pretty honest about how exhausting that process was of getting your willows back into shape. We're definitely there with the yard fatigue (trash cans full of twigs, sweating to death in the blazing sun--which surely means we are pruning at the WRONG time). What would you do differently with your newer, propagated willow baby? Do you think the pruning process could become as daunting once the others grow back, or do you honestly thing that it's possible to keep the DWs in check/manageable? 'Cause...21 years of marriage might be on the line (well, it's not quite that bad. Ahem. :) PS, sorry for the novel!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Claudia, I'm laughing at your comment because I can SO relate -- I almost spit my tea out because of laughing! I'm 54, so I get it. I had a double hip replacement a few years ago. My husband doesn't enjoy gardening like I do. (Moving a shrub to him is akin to... well... something horrible. And part of why we went grass-free in our yard is because he hates mowing due to his allergies.) I get it! The irrational fantasies of plant propagating are real: I'm working on a video as I type this showing how I'm currently propagating more DW cuttings. 😂 My goal -- and I should say "our" goal -- is that as these grow back we will prune them more actively and keep them a bit more contained size-wise. While we LOVE the giant wall, we may prune to keep the width more in check while letting the height continue. Overall, I want to cut down on those little twigs too. So I do think -- honestly -- that it's possible to keep these DWs in check. And realized I needed to start over as the first step. I hope this helps! And please keep me posted on what you decide to do! (PS -- One idea I have is to eventually put a few DW in large containers, which is always another option for your cuttings. I'm an enabler sometimes.)
@claudiastahl9595
3 жыл бұрын
@@GardenSanity There are so many gems in here, I feel like we could be be pals :) But for the sake of everyone's sanity, I'll stick to the willow talk. Your point about keeping the width in check makes so much sense, because this is where i think we really went astray in our pruning. We were taking away height, but all the while the beast kept growing outward as well as upward. Without the spread, the height should be more manageable (I hope). And I like tall (read, screening). Also love that you went grassless, which I'm a BIG proponent of. Have you done a video on that? Oh, and thank you for being an enabler, potting the DW cuttings will allow me to disguise my true intentions for the DW cuttings as frugality ("look, honey, now we don't need to buy potted plants for the patio this year..."). Brilliant!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
@@claudiastahl9595 Yes, in terms of width of the DWs -- our living wall was gorgeous but it hid all those dead tiny twigs inside. But oh it looked great! Yes, screening and privacy is good, and fences make good neighbors I think the phrase is. No video about going grassless, but at some point I will do one. I've finally organized all the pictures I took back then, but it was pre-video so it will take awhile to turn them into something viewable. And yes, tell your husband each DW shrub is about $30, so the savings is wonderful! Except if you're like me and your husband already knows this garden trickery. (PS: I read your first comment to my husband, who looked at me and said, "Did you write that to yourself?" LOL)
@jackboyswan
3 жыл бұрын
Great Vids.. Your so Brave..
@loumlefty8760
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Laura. What is the plant that is behind you while you are seated at the end of the video. Looks like perfect shade.
@GardenSanity
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Lou, Those are three Red Tip Photinia shrubs that we grew into trees. I hope to do a video on them at some point! You can see more of them in a video I did back in January called, "It's Snowing: Winter Interest Garden Tour" at about the 18-minute mark. They are evergreen, which is wonderful for the patio area! I hope this helps!
@MarinaMandarinaWoolyWorld
3 жыл бұрын
LOVE your clothes 😍!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I’m all about comfort, and this outfit was fleece which was perfect for the cold temperatures!
@billiestanfield2702
3 жыл бұрын
Just came across the dapple willow shrub online. They are Beautiful! Been looking to find them in bulk. Cheapest I could find them for is 30+ dollars each. I spend enough money on flowers the way it is lol. Just bought 4 iceberg rose shrubs to fill in a flower bed along the front of my house. Stray cats keep using it for a litter box so everything grown from seed keeps dying. Was growing loads of different varieties of coneflowers out there. Tried the deterants nothing works long. So last but not least is a thorn filled hedge lol. Sorry I ramble on its what I do when I talk about flowers and gardening. Is there any place you would recommend finding the dapple willow online?
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree about Dappled Willow being expensive, Billie! Stay tuned, as one of my next videos will show how easy it is to propagate Dappled Willow from cuttings, which saved us a TON of money! (All of our shrubs were started from one original shrub.) Yes, rose thorns do seem to deter some animals, however the pandemic rabbits weren't bothered and gnawed at the base of one shrub for the first time this year. (Re: cats, I keep debating whether or not to plant catmint in my front beds or will I have a bunch of cats wanting to make friends with my indoor-only cats?) LOL
@billiestanfield2702
3 жыл бұрын
@@GardenSanity After watching your video I watched another where a guy was talking about they're the easiest plant to propagate from cuttings. I have always failed at that. But figured I should buy one and give it a try wouldn't hurt. Rabbits chewed my young pink and white Japanese wisteria down to the ground over winter. So there's that lol. Thank you I look forward to your next video!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
@@billiestanfield2702 Your wisteria too? Wow -- guess you definitely can relate to my rabbit problem. It's driving me batty! (Not to mention squirrels I watched (in shock) yesterday as they ATE Magnolia flower buds off the tree. Never happened ever before.
@rondahamersley8340
3 жыл бұрын
Help my dappled willow has 1 or 2 spindly tall “trunks”I want it to have it shaped into a fountain shape it is about 2-3 years old
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ronda, I think those two trunks will need to be cut back. It sounds like you need additional stronger stems that will continue to produce more stems, creating the fuller shrub you want. Then it will make it much easier to shape. Your shrub might be a candidate for coppicing. Cutting back those tall trunks will encourage lots of new growth. I hope this helps!
@rondahamersley8340
3 жыл бұрын
@@GardenSanity thank you so much. It’s just scary to cut 😬my mom got it for me. Put I will try it where are you located? I am in central IN . I may have more questions in the future
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
@@rondahamersley8340 No worries Ronda! If you want to send me some pictures of the shrub, send them to my email: petscribbles@gmail.com and I'd be happy to take a look.
@karenbateman5608
3 жыл бұрын
Hi is it to early or late to cut it back mine is getting out of hand thanks
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Karen, it’s fine to cut your Dappled Willow back now, especially since the initial Spring growth (with the pink leaves) is finished. If it is hot where you are, the shrub might need to recover but will look refreshed and happier pretty quickly! Just make sure it gets enough water. Keep me posted!
@jessicakosak4138
3 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking about getting one for the front side of our house right off the front porch.... kind of where you might traditionally see an upright evergreen. It tends to get wet there though. Do you think this sounds like an ok location for it? I would never want to totally have to take it all the way down.... would regularly taking 1/3 out each year be a reasonable thought to control and maintain? Thanks!!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Jessica, I think it will work if you keep a few things in mind. 1. Be aware you will have reddish stems and not an evergreen during the Winter months. 2. Dappled Willow isn't the same type of shrub like a red twig dogwood, where it is super easy to remove 1/3 of the stems to keep it in bounds, etc. I think it would be more like keeping the sides pruned so it would not ever get too wide. 3. Dappled Willow can grow tall. :) Again...pruning. 4. Dappled Willow needs sun, so just make sure it has enough to get the best pink-white-green coloring. 5. As you already mentioned, regular pruning will be involved. 6. Dappled Willow's roots go far and wide, so if close to the house, make sure it won't mess up any underground pipes. Dappled Willow is NOT damaging to pipes like regular Willow trees are, but it's worth being aware of, just in case. I've seen several examples of Dappled Willows kept as smaller shrubs as part of a foundation bed and they look pretty like that, so I think you will love the view you'll enjoy from your front porch! I know I sure would! I hope this helps. Keep me posted!
@jessicakosak4138
3 жыл бұрын
@@GardenSanity sounds great! Thanks for the info!!!
@jessicakosak4138
3 жыл бұрын
@@GardenSanity your video made me fall in love with the dappled willow!! I realized after messaging you this will be on the north almost west side of my house.... definitely not full sun. Which do you think would do better there the dappled willow or the Artic blue willow? Thank you!! Gardening info is kind of hard to find for newbies!!!
@GardenSanity
3 жыл бұрын
@@jessicakosak4138 I wasn't familiar with the Arctic Blue Willow -- but -- now that I read up on it: wow what a beautiful plant! The thing that jumped out to me in my reading is the constant mention of how well Arctic Willow does in low, wet spots in yards. On the flip side, you would also need to provide Dappled Willow with a decent amount of water its first growing season too, and a few seasons thereafter, as it also loves wet areas. Dappled Willow can also be planted in full sun, partial shade. I'm sorry if I mis-spoke -- or mis-typed -- in my earlier reply. The best color is produced in full sun, however some shade is fine. I just wanted to point it out, as sometimes a porch can block the sun and a plant ends up in full shade. So -- either one will work. Does this help better?
@Lilliancooks
3 жыл бұрын
Is it too late for me to trim my dappled willow? It just started budding about a week ago.
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