Willow Fencing
One of the frustrations of moving every two years is the expense of making a new garden, again and again. I have finally hit upon a good way of forming raised beds which last about two or three years and can be easily dismantled/ (We have to return the garden to truf when we leave/)
This year I bought willow from Somerset Growers at £10.00 for 10K quick delivery time meant ti was here in a couple of days and still green enough to bend for fencing. My first attempt was not pretty, but I learnt a lot. I am always better trying soething out first and leanrning as I go; howver the end result while not pretty was functional.
I tried a basket weaving techneque on the top but it failed and I had to improvise by wrapping withies round the top to hold it down. I put the uprights too far apart and made the corners too sharp. Lessons learned I tried again in the front garden.
This time I made sure the uprights were long and that they were about 10cm apart. I put aa curve in using a hose pipe to follow. The red T bar made putting in the withies a piece of cake.
I used two withies at a time and put a twist in after every upright this made a solid wall and looked a lot better than just the in and out I tried on my first bed.
This is after three, layers, its already looking fairly neat.
The finished article. On the top I used a basket making finishe called 4 behind 2 in front. There are lots of different ways to fininish but I like the siplicity of this one.
