I'm new to Dappled Willows - planted my first one earlier this summer and I REALLY appreciate your videos on them. I will be checking back in for your pruning video in the Spring. BTW - your row of Dappled Willows is beautiful.
Thanks so much Kristi! So glad you can learn from my mistakes - seriously - so you won’t get into a Dappled Willow mess like I did. 🙃🙂🙃 Hope you see some nice reddish-colored stems this Winter!
I was just about to buy one of these plants but my daughter has two large ones and after watching your video m going to give propagating a chance. You have very good presentation skills.
@@shirleypitcherjacks2820 Hi Shirley -- if you scroll back up to the Description are below this video, you'll see a link to my Complete Guide to Dappled Willow, which will give you the answers on what you're asking -- it's in the "pruning" section of the guide. 👍 You can also see an "accidental" tree form I have now in my Early June Gardening Tour video! Hope this helps!
I am so glad I ran across your video! My dappled willow is several years old and not near as tall and busy as yours were; however, it was just growing in a wonky "tree like" fashion and did not resemble a bush. I think I will do like you did in March and basically cut it down pretty much to the ground and start over! I'm glad I was able to see what you did and give it a second chance at new life! I was beginning to think I would just dig it up and plant another one. Here's hoping it will look different next year! Thank you for making this video and sharing the information!
You're welcome Candy! Cutting ours down and starting over was the best decision! The difficult thing about digging up Dappled Willow after several years, is that the roots will be quite a job to remove -- it's amazing how fast they are growing underground! I think you'll also enjoy a wonderful result if you coppice them. The hard part is just being patient until next year! But you can prune them a bit here and there in the meantime to help you not feel like they are so wonky -- which is a great term for how they can end up looking over time! 😁 Please keep me posted, ok?
@@GardenSanity Thank you for your response!! I did not know that about their roots. I will be sure to update you as to how things go after we cut ours back!! I appreciate your video and all your advice!! Blessings, Candy :)
You’re so welcome! 😊 I hope gardeners can learn from my mistakes, especially as these shrubs look fantastic just one year later after cutting them down and essentially starting over. How is your gardening weather doing where you are in Canada? 🌺
I took mine down to the ground this spring as I hadn't trimmed it in years and it was even more out of control than yours. In 4 weeks it has grown to 3 feet tall.
That’s great to read Trevor! Isn’t it satisfying to see how well they grow back - and how fast too? 👍 But I can’t imagine shrubs more out of control than mine were! 😂 Mine were sooooooo bad!
Wow - you beat us by a couple of feet - we think our tallest may have been 15 feet! Glad your shrubs rebounded so quickly too! (Ours were nice last year, but they truly look amazing this year - back to how they used to look originally!)
Hi Chalae -- Yes, you're exactly right: If you prune them every year, then they won't get out of control like mine did.👍 I thought letting them grow huge was great -- and it can be -- but I also didn't do anything to control them either. That's how I ended up with large "trunks" that were growing sideways and no growth on the inside of the shrubs, etc. As long as you prune them once a season, you'll be fine. And I've got videos for proper pruning as well in my Dappled Willow Playlist! I hope they help, and please keep me posted as I like to hear updates! 😀
Hi Sammy, I’m currently editing my new video on these shrubs as I type this! It will show how to prune these shrubs and what they look like now! 🙂 Stay tuned!
I love your videos - subscribing to your channel! Came across one of your Dappled Willow videos just while searching what they look like in the first place. (I had a guy from the nursery come to look at some places that need new plantings and I jotted down all of his suggestions to look up later.) If you don't have a big space for a wall of dappled willows, would planting one (in the middle of 2 other shrubs but there is space for it to grow) fill in the space? I have 8 ft between other plants in one spot or if I put them in another place, I could plant 2 within the 15 ft space. I don't want them to get too crazy and tall though. Can they be kept to about the height of your fence? Also, I get full sun? Would they hold up? Thanks!
I am concerned the dappled willow roots will grow into my house foundation. I am thinking to dig them up and relocate them. Have you ever experienced their roots causing an issue on your property? I originally bought these at a plant to line against my home. Pretty, large, and affordable.
I have not personally had that happen because ours are purposely planted far away from our house foundation. I have heard of willows - in general - causing problems with house foundation and sidewalks, underground pipes. And I've heard a few cases of Dappled Willow roots causing issues. So, to be on the safe side, I'd suggest relocating them. I know it's a pain to do so. Years ago we had our original Dappled Willow shrub planted in our front yard too close to the house. When we moved it after just two years, it already had large roots underground. I hope this helps, but I'm sorry you'll have to relocate them because it is some hard work digging. 💚🌿
I have a few stems turning brown. Should I trim them off and put need oil on them. The leaves on these stems turned brown and the stems don’t look or feel,dead. I am worried about fungus we have had so much rain.
Hi Brenda -- I would definitely spray the shrub with Neem Oil -- always a safe idea! As for the brown stems, I would gently trim them off. And what I mean by that is don't do any severe pruning at this time. (See my Dying Dappled Willow video for my own mistake in doing this last Summer.) Try pruning just the "ends" of those brown stems...without taking out the entire stem. Wait a few days and see how the shrub is responding. Then take off more, and so on. Not sure what zone you're in, but if you're experiencing the horrible heat waves, you want to trim only the dead stuff off. 👍As for too much rain -- Dappled Willow love water, so there's probably not going to be fungus from too much rain -- just happier plants! So I'm hoping that you have some leaves that turned brown but it won't affect the entire shrub. 🤞Please keep me posted!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I'm so sorry that happened to you. However -- yes -- they WILL grow back! Darn those deer and rabbits. Maybe add some deer and rabbit repellents sprinkled or sprayed around the plants?
@@GardenSanity I hear that! The deer ate my oak leaf hydrangeas right through the netting! This will be the first year I see the dappled Willows in yard and at my fiancé’s property. I CANT WAIT! Thank you for your guidance on these!!!
@@ksero1000 You'll have to keep me posted on how the Dappled Willow looks at both properties! I'm hoping it's wonderful! Your poor oak leaf hydrangea! I'm fortunate I don't deal with deer -- but my parents do, and those deer really destroy shrubs!
Yes Karen, Dappled Willow are indeed rabbit friendly…but luckily they aren’t able to devour the shrubs. 👍 They mostly try and get the younger growth near the base of the shrubs. It definitely helps to use some rabbit repellents!
I am looking to grow as forage for my rabbits. I came across your video because I was searching coppicing. Yours was very helpful even if your purpose for your willow is quite different. I had never seen dappled willow. It is really pretty!
Wow - that’s interesting Karen! Are your rabbits pets, or the wild kind that you allow to forage in your yard? (I’ve always thought having pet rabbits would be fun…which is probably why I have a love-hate relationship with the wild rabbits here. They are cute…but they can be so destructive!
I planted some dappled willow along with some ivory halo dogwoods along the sides of my yard for privacy. all have done really well and grew a good amount, But I noticed as they grew a lot of the new growth was less variegated, what would have caused this? or is this normal?
Hi Andrew, the combo of the ivory halo dogwoods and dappled willow sounds really nice! Dappled Willow can begin pushing out green leaves sometimes, especially on older shrubs. The best thing to do is - if just a few stems - remove them. However, as you may have seen in my video above, most of my stems appear with green leaves right now. I’m hoping next Spring when I prune that the new growth will become the wonderful variegated color. Have you pruned yours recently? Before when we let ours grow and grow, without a good pruning, ours began reverting to the green color. My suggestion for you - if you don’t normally do so - is to give them a good pruning next Spring. Does this help? 🌱
Hi, I live in Montreal, Canada. And I was wondering if I can perform the same here? Does the Quebec weather have any restrictions to perform such a technique?
Hi Eric, I just published a new video on pruning Dappled Willow, where I cover the best time to prune them. (You can find it here on my UA-cam channel.) You really don't have to worry about frost being an issue, as Dappled Willow are very hardy shrubs. So you should be able to prune them just fine! Let me know how it goes!
@@GardenSanity Hi 🙂 Thank you for your feedback. I already cut all of them about 2-3 inches above ground. There’s still at least 1 inch of ice above ground. I’m pretty confident this will work. The branch diameter was 4-5 inches diameter. And they were, just lie yours, out of control. Now let’s see how this goes. I will send you pictures later on.
Strange about the brown one. I had a rhododendron like that which went from perfectly healthy to near death seemingly overnight. Who knows? I’m not sure if I like my DW. I constantly prune it as I can’t stand to have scraggly plants next to the house. I’m not ready to take the chainsaw to it for fear of a huge hole in the landscaping.
Totally agree with you about scraggly plants! This Summer was a study in restraint for me, as I wanted to let the Dappled Willow rebound. I’m looking forward - as in can’t wait - to prune and shape them next Spring. For yours, you could take them down with a chainsaw but leave about 2 feet or even 3 feet. They rapidly sprout new buds so it wouldn’t leave a landscape hole. How tall are yours?
@@GardenSanity I prune mine down to 6 ft or else I’d need a ladder to get to it. I have a wild area behind me with tons of thorn bushes (bunny land). I’d much rather have a DW there. I’m not sure I can kill it and then get enough roots out to put in something more manageable.
I can’t imagine - or don’t want to - what the Dappled Willow roots look like underground! And what a job it would be to remove them. 😬 We’re planning on keeping our DW lower than we used to. Probably just above the 6 foot white fence. (Totally agree about needing a ladder which isn’t fun…or safe.) For the bunny land area (🤣) how about planting some DW cuttings? Although if it was me I’d probably start with actual shrubs to quickly cover that area. Just know the bunnies will munch on the bottoms. 🙄
Not to add to your Fall to-do list, but Dappled Willow doesn’t need any rooting hormone! Just cut and stick in a pot! 🙂 Easier said than done, I know! 🌱
@@GardenSanity ha! Good question! I ended up moving it to my raised bed temporarily, because I realized it would get huge for the space that I wanted it. Then months passed! It’s November and I just moved it back to that same space I planted it earlier. I’m just going to have to prune it hard every year to keep it small. I like your idea of taking cuttings and making a hedge, though-I could do that against my neighbor’s fence and I think it’d look awesome! Thank you for working so hard to make these videos, you’re experience is so helpful!
Oh I totally understand putting something in a raised bed temporarily - we did that a few times just trying to figure out where to plant things. 🌱 You can still move the shrub next Spring if needed. There will be a lot of pruning to keep it small but it is doable! 🙂
Hi Zala -- It's best to plant Dappled Willow at least six feet apart, which would be 1.8 meters. This way, with your pruning to the dimensions you mentioned, you'll have beautiful shrubs that aren't crowding each other. I hope this helps! 🌱
WWOW they’re beautiful! How many were there originally in the row and how far apart were they planted from each other? When you coppiced...did you dig any of them out?
@@annebush3606 Looks like you have similar Winter weather as us right now -- temps in the 30s. We're getting our second round of snow overnight -- when we were predicted not to have any this Winter! Stay warm!
Hello Ug, the pruning would be the same - except do not cut below where the grafting was done, which is usually toward the bottom of the plant. If your plant is growing from one big trunk/stem - with all of the growth at the top - like a lolli-pop shape - then do all of the pruning at the top and don’t cut into the main trunk/stem. Does this help?
@@GardenSanity thank you. It makes sense. I'm just trying to establish the ultimate height of the dappled willow, which was grafted onto a normal willow. Even if I do annual trimming of the lateral branches, it may still grow gigantic, or won't it? Maybe I should purchase a non-grafted dappled willow and train it as a lollipop myself?
Can someone advise me on how far, but how close I can plant from a sidewalk or road? I want to put a row on a hard to mow hill that slopes down toward a road so I don’t have to mow there anymore.
To learn about their growing requirements, check our the free guide I linked to in the Description area above. 🌱 Dappled Willow grows fairly large, so the first consideration is what size you will want them to be. For example, if you plan to keep them trimmed and pruned, then having them about 4 or 5 feet from a sidewalk or road would be fine. However, the key is you would be trimming them back a lot to prevent them from growing into the sidewalk space or the road - especially if cars are driving on the road and people are using the sidewalk. The better option is to site them well away from the road and sidewalk, so you avoid the worry of them growing into those areas. Without seeing the location, I think planting them on the hill approximately 6 or 8 feet away from the road and sidewalk would be better. And space them 6 feet apart. They will grow into each other nicely at that distance. You could put decorative rocks along the road or sidewalk to help delineate the space, and mulch underneath the shrubs. Or like me, add rock around the shrubs too. Remember, these love water. Make sure especially while they are young that they get enough water. I hope this helps? 🌱
In full sun. I have fertilized and mulched. I’m in zone 7 and they’re planted in a wet area of the yard. Based on everything I’ve read they should be thriving in this spot but they look like weed shrubs
I'm new to Dappled Willows - planted my first one earlier this summer and I REALLY appreciate your videos on them. I will be checking back in for your pruning video in the Spring. BTW - your row of Dappled Willows is beautiful.
Thanks so much Kristi! So glad you can learn from my mistakes - seriously - so you won’t get into a Dappled Willow mess like I did. 🙃🙂🙃 Hope you see some nice reddish-colored stems this Winter!
You’ve made great sense of it all! Thank you as I embark on my dappled willow shrubbery!
You're so welcome! Please keep me posted on how yours is doing, as I always like to hear updates!
@@GardenSanity I shall!
I was just about to buy one of these plants but my daughter has two large ones and after watching your video m going to give propagating a chance. You have very good presentation skills.
😊how can I get a tree from the dappled will have w shrub?
Thank you Michelle! 😊I hope the propagating goes well and saves you money too! Please keep me posted, as I love to hear updates! 🌱
@@shirleypitcherjacks2820 Hi Shirley -- if you scroll back up to the Description are below this video, you'll see a link to my Complete Guide to Dappled Willow, which will give you the answers on what you're asking -- it's in the "pruning" section of the guide. 👍 You can also see an "accidental" tree form I have now in my Early June Gardening Tour video! Hope this helps!
Can you answer my question?
@@shirleypitcherjacks2820 Hi Shirley -- I already did, above. Let me know if you don't see it? (Maybe your comment crossed with my answer!) 💛
I am a huge fan of your dappled willow playlist. thank you for the content.
So glad you like this playlist! I''ll be doing another Dappled Willow pruning video very soon!
I am so glad I ran across your video! My dappled willow is several years old and not near as tall and busy as yours were; however, it was just growing in a wonky "tree like" fashion and did not resemble a bush. I think I will do like you did in March and basically cut it down pretty much to the ground and start over! I'm glad I was able to see what you did and give it a second chance at new life! I was beginning to think I would just dig it up and plant another one. Here's hoping it will look different next year! Thank you for making this video and sharing the information!
You're welcome Candy! Cutting ours down and starting over was the best decision! The difficult thing about digging up Dappled Willow after several years, is that the roots will be quite a job to remove -- it's amazing how fast they are growing underground! I think you'll also enjoy a wonderful result if you coppice them. The hard part is just being patient until next year! But you can prune them a bit here and there in the meantime to help you not feel like they are so wonky -- which is a great term for how they can end up looking over time! 😁 Please keep me posted, ok?
@@GardenSanity Thank you for your response!! I did not know that about their roots. I will be sure to update you as to how things go after we cut ours back!! I appreciate your video and all your advice!! Blessings, Candy :)
You’re welcome Candy! Definitely keep me updated. And happy gardening to you! 🌿💛😊
I love this!! Thank you Laura. I always love learning from you!
You’re welcome Chris! 🌱 And thank you! 🌿🌞
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and this wonderful information!💜🌟💜 Greetings from Canada.
You’re so welcome! 😊 I hope gardeners can learn from my mistakes, especially as these shrubs look fantastic just one year later after cutting them down and essentially starting over. How is your gardening weather doing where you are in Canada? 🌺
I took mine down to the ground this spring as I hadn't trimmed it in years and it was even more out of control than yours. In 4 weeks it has grown to 3 feet tall.
That’s great to read Trevor! Isn’t it satisfying to see how well they grow back - and how fast too? 👍 But I can’t imagine shrubs more out of control than mine were! 😂 Mine were sooooooo bad!
@@GardenSanity I took over 17 feet off of mine and even watching your video I was so nervous having never done that before
Wow - you beat us by a couple of feet - we think our tallest may have been 15 feet! Glad your shrubs rebounded so quickly too! (Ours were nice last year, but they truly look amazing this year - back to how they used to look originally!)
So we just bought some dappled willow. If I want to prevent having to cut all the way down do I just prune down each year?
Hi Chalae -- Yes, you're exactly right: If you prune them every year, then they won't get out of control like mine did.👍 I thought letting them grow huge was great -- and it can be -- but I also didn't do anything to control them either. That's how I ended up with large "trunks" that were growing sideways and no growth on the inside of the shrubs, etc. As long as you prune them once a season, you'll be fine. And I've got videos for proper pruning as well in my Dappled Willow Playlist! I hope they help, and please keep me posted as I like to hear updates! 😀
The brown shrub could be from willow borer. I’ve had some in my arctic blue willow and the last time I tried growing dappled willow they killed it.
Thanks for the tip about willow borer! It definitely wasn’t that, thankfully. Arctic blue willow is very pretty! 👍
Yay! I was waiting for this video!!!
I’m so glad Jessica! Thanks so much! 🌱
Please do another update. My dapple willow is still Small. I planted last spring.
Hi Sammy, I’m currently editing my new video on these shrubs as I type this! It will show how to prune these shrubs and what they look like now! 🙂 Stay tuned!
I love your videos - subscribing to your channel! Came across one of your Dappled Willow videos just while searching what they look like in the first place. (I had a guy from the nursery come to look at some places that need new plantings and I jotted down all of his suggestions to look up later.) If you don't have a big space for a wall of dappled willows, would planting one (in the middle of 2 other shrubs but there is space for it to grow) fill in the space? I have 8 ft between other plants in one spot or if I put them in another place, I could plant 2 within the 15 ft space. I don't want them to get too crazy and tall though. Can they be kept to about the height of your fence? Also, I get full sun? Would they hold up? Thanks!
I am concerned the dappled willow roots will grow into my house foundation. I am thinking to dig them up and relocate them. Have you ever experienced their roots causing an issue on your property? I originally bought these at a plant to line against my home. Pretty, large, and affordable.
I have not personally had that happen because ours are purposely planted far away from our house foundation. I have heard of willows - in general - causing problems with house foundation and sidewalks, underground pipes. And I've heard a few cases of Dappled Willow roots causing issues. So, to be on the safe side, I'd suggest relocating them. I know it's a pain to do so. Years ago we had our original Dappled Willow shrub planted in our front yard too close to the house. When we moved it after just two years, it already had large roots underground. I hope this helps, but I'm sorry you'll have to relocate them because it is some hard work digging. 💚🌿
I have a few stems turning brown. Should I trim them off and put need oil on them. The leaves on these stems turned brown and the stems don’t look or feel,dead. I am worried about fungus we have had so much rain.
Hi Brenda -- I would definitely spray the shrub with Neem Oil -- always a safe idea! As for the brown stems, I would gently trim them off. And what I mean by that is don't do any severe pruning at this time. (See my Dying Dappled Willow video for my own mistake in doing this last Summer.) Try pruning just the "ends" of those brown stems...without taking out the entire stem. Wait a few days and see how the shrub is responding. Then take off more, and so on. Not sure what zone you're in, but if you're experiencing the horrible heat waves, you want to trim only the dead stuff off. 👍As for too much rain -- Dappled Willow love water, so there's probably not going to be fungus from too much rain -- just happier plants! So I'm hoping that you have some leaves that turned brown but it won't affect the entire shrub. 🤞Please keep me posted!
Awesome 2c all that growth bc the deer & maybe rabbit Nicely “coppiced” the ones I put in the ground in the fall.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I'm so sorry that happened to you. However -- yes -- they WILL grow back! Darn those deer and rabbits. Maybe add some deer and rabbit repellents sprinkled or sprayed around the plants?
@@GardenSanity Please don’t be sorry! 😄 Be HAPPY for me! I welcome redistributing the workload as it seems I will have a ton with these! ☺️☺️☺️☺️🤍
@@ksero1000 I'm laughing out loud reading this! That's what I tell my husband: we're getting some pruning help -- including some I didn't ask for!
@@GardenSanity I hear that! The deer ate my oak leaf hydrangeas right through the netting!
This will be the first year I see the dappled
Willows in yard and at my fiancé’s property. I CANT WAIT! Thank you for your guidance on these!!!
@@ksero1000 You'll have to keep me posted on how the Dappled Willow looks at both properties! I'm hoping it's wonderful! Your poor oak leaf hydrangea! I'm fortunate I don't deal with deer -- but my parents do, and those deer really destroy shrubs!
I was wondering if it was as rabbit friendly as my weeping willow and you answered that!
Yes Karen, Dappled Willow are indeed rabbit friendly…but luckily they aren’t able to devour the shrubs. 👍 They mostly try and get the younger growth near the base of the shrubs. It definitely helps to use some rabbit repellents!
I am looking to grow as forage for my rabbits. I came across your video because I was searching coppicing. Yours was very helpful even if your purpose for your willow is quite different. I had never seen dappled willow. It is really pretty!
Wow - that’s interesting Karen! Are your rabbits pets, or the wild kind that you allow to forage in your yard? (I’ve always thought having pet rabbits would be fun…which is probably why I have a love-hate relationship with the wild rabbits here. They are cute…but they can be so destructive!
I planted some dappled willow along with some ivory halo dogwoods along the sides of my yard for privacy. all have done really well and grew a good amount, But I noticed as they grew a lot of the new growth was less variegated, what would have caused this? or is this normal?
Hi Andrew, the combo of the ivory halo dogwoods and dappled willow sounds really nice! Dappled Willow can begin pushing out green leaves sometimes, especially on older shrubs. The best thing to do is - if just a few stems - remove them. However, as you may have seen in my video above, most of my stems appear with green leaves right now. I’m hoping next Spring when I prune that the new growth will become the wonderful variegated color. Have you pruned yours recently? Before when we let ours grow and grow, without a good pruning, ours began reverting to the green color. My suggestion for you - if you don’t normally do so - is to give them a good pruning next Spring. Does this help? 🌱
Very good channel...
Thank you so much John -- I appreciate it! 🙂🌿
Hi, I live in Montreal, Canada. And I was wondering if I can perform the same here?
Does the Quebec weather have any restrictions to perform such a technique?
Hi Eric, I just published a new video on pruning Dappled Willow, where I cover the best time to prune them. (You can find it here on my UA-cam channel.) You really don't have to worry about frost being an issue, as Dappled Willow are very hardy shrubs. So you should be able to prune them just fine! Let me know how it goes!
@@GardenSanity Hi 🙂
Thank you for your feedback. I already cut all of them about 2-3 inches above ground. There’s still at least 1 inch of ice above ground. I’m pretty confident this will work. The branch diameter was 4-5 inches diameter. And they were, just lie yours, out of control. Now let’s see how this goes. I will send you pictures later on.
Do all dappled willows bloom like yours or what variety is yours?
Strange about the brown one. I had a rhododendron like that which went from perfectly healthy to near death seemingly overnight. Who knows? I’m not sure if I like my DW. I constantly prune it as I can’t stand to have scraggly plants next to the house. I’m not ready to take the chainsaw to it for fear of a huge hole in the landscaping.
Totally agree with you about scraggly plants! This Summer was a study in restraint for me, as I wanted to let the Dappled Willow rebound. I’m looking forward - as in can’t wait - to prune and shape them next Spring. For yours, you could take them down with a chainsaw but leave about 2 feet or even 3 feet. They rapidly sprout new buds so it wouldn’t leave a landscape hole. How tall are yours?
@@GardenSanity I prune mine down to 6 ft or else I’d need a ladder to get to it. I have a wild area behind me with tons of thorn bushes (bunny land). I’d much rather have a DW there. I’m not sure I can kill it and then get enough roots out to put in something more manageable.
I can’t imagine - or don’t want to - what the Dappled Willow roots look like underground! And what a job it would be to remove them. 😬 We’re planning on keeping our DW lower than we used to. Probably just above the 6 foot white fence. (Totally agree about needing a ladder which isn’t fun…or safe.) For the bunny land area (🤣) how about planting some DW cuttings? Although if it was me I’d probably start with actual shrubs to quickly cover that area. Just know the bunnies will munch on the bottoms. 🙄
@@GardenSanity I bought some rooting hormone and I wanted to clone a bunch of plants, but I didn’t get around to it. Hopefully, next year.
Not to add to your Fall to-do list, but Dappled Willow doesn’t need any rooting hormone! Just cut and stick in a pot! 🙂 Easier said than done, I know! 🌱
Excellent video
Thanks Jennifer Lynn! How is your Dappled Willow doing? 🌿
@@GardenSanity ha! Good question! I ended up moving it to my raised bed temporarily, because I realized it would get huge for the space that I wanted it. Then months passed! It’s November and I just moved it back to that same space I planted it earlier. I’m just going to have to prune it hard every year to keep it small. I like your idea of taking cuttings and making a hedge, though-I could do that against my neighbor’s fence and I think it’d look awesome! Thank you for working so hard to make these videos, you’re experience is so helpful!
Oh I totally understand putting something in a raised bed temporarily - we did that a few times just trying to figure out where to plant things. 🌱 You can still move the shrub next Spring if needed. There will be a lot of pruning to keep it small but it is doable! 🙂
Hello. How close together should I plant them if I will prune them to stay approx. 1,8 meters tall and 1,3 meters wide?
Thank you!
Hi Zala -- It's best to plant Dappled Willow at least six feet apart, which would be 1.8 meters. This way, with your pruning to the dimensions you mentioned, you'll have beautiful shrubs that aren't crowding each other. I hope this helps! 🌱
@@GardenSanity thanks! I am excited to plant them... I really like your videos!
Thank you Zala! 😊 Keep me posted on how they’re growing! 👍
WWOW they’re beautiful! How many were there originally in the row and how far apart were they planted from each other? When you coppiced...did you dig any of them out?
Oh lol you pretty much answered my question at the 8 minute mark. 😁
Thanks! 🙂 I also have a video just on the coppicing that I did, so you can watch that if that will help you out too. 🌱
@@GardenSanity oh yeah that’s right I forgot you put a ticker-link in the video. I’m glad you reminded me. Thank you!!!
No problem!
Love your videos!
❤️ 😊 Thanks Anne! What garden zone are you in? I’m always interested in where fellow gardeners are located. 🪴🌸
@@GardenSanity I’m located in central Arkansas, zone 7b. 😊
@@annebush3606 Looks like you have similar Winter weather as us right now -- temps in the 30s. We're getting our second round of snow overnight -- when we were predicted not to have any this Winter! Stay warm!
What about the pruning of a dappled willow that was grafted on top of a regular willow?
Hello Ug, the pruning would be the same - except do not cut below where the grafting was done, which is usually toward the bottom of the plant. If your plant is growing from one big trunk/stem - with all of the growth at the top - like a lolli-pop shape - then do all of the pruning at the top and don’t cut into the main trunk/stem. Does this help?
@@GardenSanity thank you. It makes sense. I'm just trying to establish the ultimate height of the dappled willow, which was grafted onto a normal willow. Even if I do annual trimming of the lateral branches, it may still grow gigantic, or won't it? Maybe I should purchase a non-grafted dappled willow and train it as a lollipop myself?
@@ugtitto2654 Hmmm.... Is what you have now a lollipop?
Can someone advise me on how far, but how close I can plant from a sidewalk or road? I want to put a row on a hard to mow hill that slopes down toward a road so I don’t have to mow there anymore.
To learn about their growing requirements, check our the free guide I linked to in the Description area above. 🌱 Dappled Willow grows fairly large, so the first consideration is what size you will want them to be. For example, if you plan to keep them trimmed and pruned, then having them about 4 or 5 feet from a sidewalk or road would be fine. However, the key is you would be trimming them back a lot to prevent them from growing into the sidewalk space or the road - especially if cars are driving on the road and people are using the sidewalk.
The better option is to site them well away from the road and sidewalk, so you avoid the worry of them growing into those areas. Without seeing the location, I think planting them on the hill approximately 6 or 8 feet away from the road and sidewalk would be better. And space them 6 feet apart. They will grow into each other nicely at that distance. You could put decorative rocks along the road or sidewalk to help delineate the space, and mulch underneath the shrubs. Or like me, add rock around the shrubs too. Remember, these love water. Make sure especially while they are young that they get enough water. I hope this helps? 🌱
@@GardenSanity thank you! I’ll double check how far I planted them and learn from your videos. Thank you so much for these videos!!! 🌼
You’re welcome! I didn’t realize you had already planted them. Hopefully all will be just fine! 🙂
@@GardenSanity Yes, but they are small and I can still move them if I do it tomorrow. 😁
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How far apart? I have three
Going into the third year of my Dappled Willows and they’re only as big as your 8 month olds. Why ? Lol
Is it planted in full Sun? What zone are you in? They usually grow rather quickly . . .
In full sun. I have fertilized and mulched. I’m in zone 7 and they’re planted in a wet area of the yard. Based on everything I’ve read they should be thriving in this spot but they look like weed shrubs