Goat willow - garden decoration

Goat willow – unpretentious, resistant to high soil moisture plant. In order to achieve decorative effects, it is grafted to the trunk. Willow is very good in the gardens near the small ponds. Long and straight like a fabulous mermaid's hair, its branches are well in tune with the plane of the water and greenery of the lawn. Goat willow is a weeping, pendulous form is obtained not from each escape. For effective breeding of this type need a long selection. Most of the trees have the appearance of an ordinary Bush, although in this case, goat willow looks good. It is suitable for the experienced grower, because he will have to carry out the procedures for the formation of the crown.

Goat willow. What you need to know, when purchasing this tree

Special pruning is needed for this plant. If green thumb will spare wood and do not want to crop the branches, it can result only by the fact that it will ruin the goat willow. Subsequently, the plant will not be able to function normally. In some ways it looks like a thoroughbred that needs special care such as nail clipping their ears, and so on. Goat willow, left to itself, will just creep along the ground, it won't hold the shape. Recall universal rules that will help you trim your plant. Shrubs form after they ottsvetut. Most often in early summer. Weeping form of the willow can be cut and winter. But I don't happen to see the bloom. Create the crown with the shears in the following way: prune back the new shoots, leaving not more than twenty inches. Ensure that at the end of bitch left kidney. The tip must be directed upwards and to the side. This will give the crown a beautiful umbrella shape.

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There is another method. If throughout the summer, pinch back all the buds at the top of the shoots, it activates those that are on the sides of the branches. It is also symmetrically will form the crown of the tree. Goat willow (Kilmarnock) – not only weeping plant that can require pruning shears. But the crown of other trees need to be trimmed, though in the same way, but only in early spring, before flowering.

Goat Willow (pendula). Multiplication and properties

Weeping form, as already mentioned, propagation, planting it on the trunk. In the field of vaccination remains a small stump. To this part of the plant is called rootstock. And the fact that the top – a Scion. Possible activation of the rootstock and the appearance of shoots, which are genetically wild tree. They need to remove. If the Scion dies, the tree has, unfortunately, would have no qualities grafted onto the trunk of the plant. Such trees are called wildings.

The height of the willow will depend on at which level was made by grafting a weeping form. The leaves of the willow are very fond of goats. Because of this it got its name. Animals prefer this plant because it is very useful and healing properties. Folk medicine uses willow (decoction of its bark) with hypertension and other problems with the pressure, as well as in chronic gastro-intestinal and nervous diseases.