It's the middle of winter and time for me to cut back the willow pollards and archways. In this video I look at how the willow has grown over the last few years and I explain the two year rotation we are using on the pollarded willows. In this video I cut back all the two year old branches on the pollarded willows and I also trim the archways in order to retain their shape and so that I can train new branches into the arch structure.

The next years video can be found here:   • Pollarding Willows 2023  

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Pollarding regime
05:09 Growth over the last two years
07:04 Willow archways
10:01 Pollarding Willows
11:04 Willows after pruning
12:34 Tallest one year growth
13:54 Catkins
14:23 Other uses for willow branches
14:52 Archways after pruning
16:31 Time lapse of Willow catkins


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