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Here are some interesting willow-related bits and pieces. If you have a story or happening included here, send an email to mail@willowscotland.co.uk (don't forget your contact details and, if possible, some information about who you are and what you do).

Willow Sculpture at Falkland, Fife (photographed June 2009)

Willow Harvest in Angus

Angus Millennium Forest (an Angus wide community woodland project) is alive and cutting, with a harvest of 500 willow rods from one of its 3 coppice willow stands in Carnoustie.

One of the local schools Woodlands Primary School needed willow
rods for an outdoor willow tunnel project within their new school
grounds in Carnoustie. Richard Bramhall contacted the local Council
Tree Officer for help. On the 3rd of February in sleet, drizzle and
mud, twenty eight pupils and four teachers walked down the road to
their local community woodland to meet Fred Conacher, the Angus
Council Tree Officer, to harvest their requirements. After a quick
introduction and demonstration the work began - cutting, selecting
rods and clearing the coppice stools of other unwanted shoots.
The waste wood and prunings were left back in the wood around the
stools to break down and help stabilise the wet bank, another job
the willow coppice stand is doing on this site. The rods were then
tied into bundles of 20 rods each and carried back to the school
with the help of the 32 newly recruited woods people.

Fred Conacher - Feb 09

Willow figure by Les Bates (www.croft7.com). More information about Les on the List page.

The Big Willow at Brahan - photos and collage by Les Bates (www.croft7.com)