Goat Willow - unpretentious, resistant to high soil moisture plant.In order to achieve a decoration, it is grafted to the bole.Willow is very good in the gardens near the small ponds.Long and straight, like a fairy mermaid hair, its branches are well in tune with both the plane of the water, and a green lawn.Goat willow weeping, hanging form is obtained not from each shoot.For effective multiplication of this type of need lengthy selection.Most of the trees have a view of a conventional bush, although in this case the goat willow looks good.It is suitable for the experienced gardener, because he would have to spend is not the most straightforward procedure for the formation of the crown.
Goat Willow.What you need to know, buying a tree
Special pruning is needed for this plant.If the gardener spare wood and does not want to cut off its branches, it can only result in the fact that it will ruin the goat willow.Subsequently, the plant will not be able to function normally.In some ways it is similar to a purebred in need of special care, such as grooming, cupping his ears, and so on.Goat Willow, left to itself, would simply travel along the ground, it will not hold the shape.Recall universal rules that will help you properly cut your plant.Bushes formed after they ottsvetut.Most often in the early summer.Weeping willow shape can be cut in the winter.But it did not happen to see blooming.Configure the crown using secateurs as follows: cut the new shoots, leaving no more than twenty centimeters.Make sure that the knot at the end of the remaining kidney.The top of it should be directed up and away.This will give the crown a beautiful umbrella shape.
There are other methods.If during the summer pinch all the buds on the top of the shoots, it activates the ones that are on the sides of the branches.This is also a form symmetrical crown of the tree.Goat willow (Kilmarnock) - not only weeping plant, which may require a pruner.But crowns of other trees should be cut, though in the same way, but only in early spring, before flowering.
goat willow (Pendula).Multiplication and properties
weeping shape, as already mentioned, are propagated by grafting it on the bole.In the field of vaccination is small stump.Up to this point part of the plant called the rootstock.And the fact that the top - graft.Possible activation of the rootstock and the emergence of shoots that are genetically wild tree.They need to be removed.If the graft dies, the tree is, unfortunately, will not have any qualities of grafted plants in the bole.Such trees are called wildings.
willow height will depend on the level at which the vaccine was given a weeping form.The leaves are very fond of goat willow.Because of this, it got its name.Animals prefer this plant, because it is very helpful and has healing properties.Traditional medicine uses a willow (decoction of its bark) for hypertension and other problems with blood pressure and chronic gastrointestinal and nervous disorders.
