Possibilities to keep the weeping willow small
- regular cut
- Bucket keeping
- braid a privacy screen
Regular cut
While other trees can manage with an annual cut, the weeping willow needs more intensive care. Especially if you want to keep your deciduous tree as small as possible, the cut should be a little more radical several times a year.
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- Propagate a weeping willow with cuttings
- Cutting weeping willow
- Cultivate the weeping willow in the bucket
Bucket keeping
Can you imagine keeping the huge deciduous tree in the bucket? Give it a try! With intensive care, you can also cultivate the weeping willow on a small scale. However, the following aspects are required:
- the bucket must be wider than it is high
- provide the tree with sufficient nutrients
- use a buttress to help young trees grow upright in their first few years
- water your weeping willow regularly
- add liquid fertilizer to the irrigation water once or twice a month
- radically prune the weeping willow annually in the spring
Braid a privacy screen
With this method, the weeping willow does not appear in its actual growth form, but you benefit twice from the tree. How about if you use the rapid growth of young shoots to build a privacy screen? How to do it:
- Cut off young shoots from an existing tree
- Put this in the ground where the privacy screen should later rise
- Water the cuttings well
- The branches are soon sprouting and growing
- To begin with, support the branches with a stake
- When the shoots have reached the desired height, braid them together
- Cut off the protruding ends