Weeping willows are undeniably beautiful to look at. If it weren't for the enormous space requirement! If you only have limited space, you don't have to do without the deciduous tree in your own garden. With these tips you can keep the pronounced growth small.
How to keep a weeping willow small?
To keep a weeping willow small, you should cut it regularly, cultivate it in a pot or weave flexible shoots as a privacy screen. When growing in containers, sufficient nutrient supply and regular watering are important.
Ways to keep the weeping willow small
- regular cut
- Bucket keeping
- weave a privacy screen
Regular Cut
While other trees can safely get by with an annual cut, the weeping willow requires more intensive care. Especially if you want to keep your deciduous tree as small as possible, pruning should be a little more radical several times a year.
Bucket keeping
Can you imagine keeping the huge deciduous tree in a pot? Give it a try! With intensive care, you can also cultivate the weeping willow in a small format. However, the following aspects are a prerequisite:
- the bucket must be wider than it is high
- provide the tree with sufficient nutrients
- help young trees to grow upright in the first few years with a support pillar
- water your weeping willow regularly
- Add liquid fertilizer (€18.00 on Amazon) to the irrigation water once or twice a month
- cut back the weeping willow radically every spring
Weaving a privacy screen
Although the weeping willow does not appear in its actual growth form with this method, you benefit twice from the tree. How about using the rapid growth of young shoots to build a privacy screen? Here's how to do it:
- Cut off young shoots from an existing tree
- Place these in the ground at the point where the privacy screen will later rise
- Water the cuttings well
- Soon the branches will sprout and get bigger
- Initially support the branches with a stake
- Once the shoots have reached the desired height, weave them together
- Cut off the excess ends
