How to order willow cuttings:

• One bundle of each of the following plants is included in the basketmaker’s package: Blau Dicks, Goldstones, Jagiellonka, Purpurea x daphnoides, Whissender, Americana, Harrison’s B, and Jaune de Falaise. $200 for 100 cuttings.
• There is one bundle of Irette, Calliantha, Britzensis, Fransgeel Rood, Natural Red, Golden, Continental Purple, Blue Streak, Blackskin, and Flanders Red in this color package. $200 for 100 cuttings.

Where can I buy live willow cuttings?

Purchase live willow cuttings from Living Willow Farm. Grow your own willow for use in willow baskets, homestead garden projects, willow fences, and more.

What is a willow cutting order?

This ancient method yields increasing numbers of sticks that can be used for willow baskets, homestead garden projects, living willow fences, and more. Willow cutting orders are grouped by color range and subject to minimum quantities per color range and total quality.

What is a willow cutting used for?

Small willow cuttings are best suited to growing rods for basketweaving, garden borders, and small sculptures. Large willow cuttings are ideal for creating your own living willow landscape features, such as living willow fence, willow domes and structures, living privacy screens, and living willow mazes.

Can you grow Willow from living willow branch cuttings?

Growing willow from living willow branch cuttings is satisfying, simple, and rewarding. Establish your new willow plants by preparing your site and inserting dormant cuttings into the soil to allow them to root and begin to grow additional stems.

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2025 Willow Cuttings Prices:

Our production of willows for Katherine’s baskets allows us to select good sized cuttings to insure successful rooting in your garden. Our cuttings are about 11 inches in length.

We do not sell dried willow rods for basketmaking or weaving.

Getting Started with Weaving a Bird Basket-Feeder

Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Size: As small or large as you want to weave it

Branches soaked and pliable?

Tools by your side?

Plenty of time on your hands?

If you’ve got all three of these, then you’re good to weave.

Step 1: Preparing the Base

Grab 6 pieces of branches, all similarly large in girth, and cut them to 11″ (28 cm) in length. These will form the base of the hanging basket.

With your sharp knife make a slit in 3 of the branches, directly in the center. Make sure it is just long enough to slide the remaining 3 branches in.

Step 2: Making the Slath

Use your bodkin, or screwdriver, to open up the slits in the branches. Slide the other branches through, one at a time.

To do this you can use the help of other tools to widen the gap.

At any stage of basket weaving it is important to go slow and steady, so as not to break/crack the branches.

Once all branches are safely through, it is time to locate the exact center.

Make sure the center branch is about 5 1/2″ (14 cm) from either end.

Step 3: Beginning to Weave the Bird Basket

Now the fun begins!

Take two of your thinnest branches and insert the tips into the slit.

Weave around each set of three branches, pulling tightly as you go.

Over, under, over, under. Repeat

Make 2 full rounds before starting to separate the branches.

When weaving a basket, don’t reinvent the wheel.

Did you know that people have been weaving baskets for more than 10,000 years? There is even evidence of baskets in the Egyptian pyramids.

Wherever hunter-gatherers traveled, they could make baskets anew from local materials that they found along the way. Not just willow, but brambles, vines, hazel, straw, bark, rushes and roots.

Woven Bird Feeders

Again, the weaving of baskets, and bird feeders, is nothing new. Yet, our skills and comprehension of weaving grow over time and as we emulate the work of others.

The woven bird basket that you are about to see (and hopefully recreate) is from the work of Jonathan Ridgeon at Jon’s Bushcraft.

If you are a beginner interested in learning how to weave, Jon’s site has fantastic information and unlimited inspiration.

In his 124-page eBook Willow Craft 10 Bird Feeder Projects you’ll discover much more advice on selecting willows for weaving, frequently used weaving techniques, along with simpler starter projects for the novice weaver.

The bird basket that follows is an interpretation. You’ll want to purchase the PDF for the full experience.