Tag Archives: willow

My Garden Journal 2020 – February

Posted on March 5, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

Okay, it’s February in this leap year so we will gain a day, and it is time for another visit to my garden journal. Weather has been interesting this month just because it has been so extreme and variable, wild … Continue reading →

Posted in flowering bulbs, garden photography, gardening, irises, spring bulbs, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens | Tagged catkins, Cyclamen coum, deciduous euonymus, foliage, foliage colour, foliage plants, iris, iris reticulata, pruning, salix, shrubs in winter, the garden in winter, willow, winter, winter cyclamen, winter gardens, winter shrubs | 2 Comments

A canal-side garden in winter – John’s Garden Part 2

Posted on December 22, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

I found this unpublished post originally written back in mid-February of 2018. I hope you enjoy it! Back at John’s Garden for our February visit in the cold we can carry on with our exploration as we wander further along … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, garden design, garden furniture, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, garden seat, garden seating, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, grasses, hardy perennials, light, light quality, NGS, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, photography, sculpture, shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, water in the garden, Winter Gardening, winter gardens, Yellow Book Gardens | Tagged Ashwood Nurseries, conifers, cornus, creative pruning, dogwoods, garden pools, garden sculpture, grasses, hellebores, hollies, ilex, John's Garden, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees, outdoor sculpture, pools, salix, snowdrops, topiary., transparency pruning, trees in the garden, willow | 2 Comments

Snowdrops and Creative Pruning – Ivy Croft Garden

Posted on June 28, 2018 by greenbenchramblings

I often publish posts about summer days out in winter to help us warm up so as we are in the middle of an exceptionally hot period of weather I shall do the opposite and publish this post I wrote … Continue reading →

Posted in flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, garden seat, garden seating, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, grasses, hardy perennials, Herefordshire, irises, kitchen gardens, log piles, logs, National Garden Scheme, NGS, nurseries, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, village gardens, Winter Gardening, winter gardens, Yellow Book Gardens | Tagged cornus, dogwoods, flowering bulbs, gardens of Herefordshire, Herefordshire, Herefordshire gardens, hollies, log piles, pleached limes, pleaching, salix, snowdrops, spring bulbs, topiary., willow | 3 Comments

A Garden in Winter – RHS Rosemoor – Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

We continued our tour of the RHS Rosemoor Garden as we passed under the underpass which led us to the original gardens now called Lady Anne’s Garden. As we left the tunnel and regained daylight, albeit rather dull, we heard … Continue reading →

Posted in flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, ornamental trees and shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens, woodland, woodlands | Tagged bamboo, Devon, Gardens of Devon, RHS, RHS gardens, RHS Rosemoor, Rosemoor, salix, willow, willows | 1 Comment

Somerset Willows

Posted on August 9, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

I love Salix (willows) – they are one of my favourite trees almost on a par with Betulas (Birches). I always have liked them, our own native species and the garden varieties we can grow. We have several at home … Continue reading →

Posted in countryside, landscapes, meadows, trees | Tagged Somerset, wetland, wetlands, willow, willow features, willow structures, willow weaving, willows

The Wonders of Willow – Even more willow magic!

Posted on March 28, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

We enjoyed a day playing with willow recently in the garden of friends Liz and Rich’s new home. They wanted us to build a play feature from willow for their youngsters Ella and Edward. So we arrived amongst the mess … Continue reading →

Posted in allotments, garden buildings, recycling | Tagged recycling, recycling in the garden, willow, willow features, willow igloo, willow playhouse, willow structures, willow weaving | 5 Comments

The Wonder of Willows – part three

Posted on March 26, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

So for the third in my posts about the wonder of willows we move to our allotment community garden site, Bowbrook Allotment Community (www.bowbrookallotments.co.uk) Here we grow many different varieties of Salix, willows with different habits, leaf shapes and in … Continue reading →

Posted in allotments, colours, community gardening, gardening, ornamental trees and shrubs, recycling, trees, Winter Gardening | Tagged Bowbrook Allotment Community, communal gardens, community gardening, community spirit, pruning, recycling, recycling in the garden, willow, willow features | 4 Comments

The Wonder of Willows – part two

Posted on March 19, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

For part two in this series about the wonder of willows we start in our own garden at our home “Avocet” in Shropshire. The first photo shows our striking, architectural Salix erythrocadium flexuosa with the orange coloured tips to its … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, gardening, recycling, trees, Winter Gardening | Tagged ornamental trees, pollarding, trees, Violet Willow, willow, willow pruning

The Wonder of Willows – part one

Posted on March 16, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

We spent a cold February day at the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust reserve in Gloucestershire, Slimbridge. Work was going on coppicing and pollarding the many willows around the site. It is so good to see this ancient countryside craft still … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, conservation, countryside, gardening, landscapes, nature reserves, ornamental trees and shrubs, trees, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Winter Gardening | Tagged coppicing, pollarding, trees, wetlands, Wildfowl and Wetalnds Trust, willow, willow structures | 2 Comments

My Garden Journal – February

Posted on March 13, 2015 by greenbenchramblings

Here we are with part two of my post featuring my garden journal, where we can look at what was going on in our garden in February. The first entry in my Garden Journal for February shares another quote from … Continue reading →