Impressive. Often nature simply needs a helping hand and then it will do the rest. Confirms that willow is a major player in restoring biodiversity not least because it supports a high level of insects as it flowers annually ie it is a pollinator @EnergyCropsUK @Mike_Pratt_NWT
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Paul Powlesland: Let there be life! Pleased to report my experiment to find a cheap way to naturalise hard river edges in urban areas appears to be successful. Last winter I coppiced long willow branches, put them in hessian bags of silt &amp; dropped them into the Roding; many trees are now growing
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