When Aaron got me the ginormous flower arrangement for Valentine's Day, it had some cool twisty looking branches in it. One by one the flowers died off and went in the rubbish bin until all that was left were those branches.
By luck of laziness, I left the vase with those sad little branches sitting on Tina's desk long after Valentine's Day. (oh yeah, Tina... since you have been out... I may or may not have been using your desk to stash the overflow from my desk)
Last week, I noticed that those branches sprouted stubby little green leaves. And roots! They look pretty cool and when I got the whole thing home, decided the roots look like some sort of biodome hydroponic type of experiment. I like it sitting on my dining room table, but what next? Am I going to have a tree sprouting in my dining room? We'll see!
(Aaron tells me the twisty branches are Corkscrew Willow.)
i did the same thing with my curly willow--left it in the vase and weeks later it was growing roots! i stuck it in a pot at my mom's house and it's still alive three years later. too bad it only looks like sticks in the ground (with tiny leaves). good luck with your branches, looking good!
ReplyDeletean odd thought, but I don't think I would spell "ginormous" that way. I know it makes sense - giant + enormous - but some how it looks wrong. Somehow I pictured gynormous or even jinormous. Now, of course none of them look correct. I think I'll be spelling it out for weeks....
ReplyDeleteCorkscrew willow are gorgeous! I hope you can keep it going!!
ReplyDeleteWe had NO budget for our wedding so we did the arrangements ourselves and used curly willow - they too, rooted and are now growing quite heartily in my dad's backyard in TX. One day when we are settled in a house for a while, I plan to take a few snippets and keep the love alive.
ReplyDeleteYou've got a pretty good chance that willow will produce a strong root system that is suitable for planting.
ReplyDeleteJust plant carefully - those things take-off like crazy.
They'll get "ginormous" within just a couple of years. The root system really takes off once it's in dirt!
I have a corkscrew willow tree in my yard. Just cutting a branch and sticking the branch in the ground will start another tree. It's very adaptable.
ReplyDelete...also, willow branches are great if you want to root other plants. throw a small piece of willow in the same water with the plant--the hormones that make willows so amenable to sprouting will also encourage your other cuttings...love the willows.
ReplyDeletethank you, willow trees.
cheers!
I would like to know if someone has ever poted there willow. I live in an apartment so I can't plant it outside. Does anyone know if it will get the little green leaves again? Also will it grow taller?
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