You will receive 10 Jagiellonka willow cuttings, 10-12" long.  Jagiellonka is a shrub willow, ideal for weaving, crafts, or use as a hedge.  Basket willow has long, pliable stems.  When harvested annually your bushes will provide you with stems up to 6' - 8' long each season.  Cuttings for planting will be available for shipping during our harvest season, December through January.  You will need to keep them in cold storage, such as a refrigerator, until planting season.   
Our willow is USDA Certified Organic.  Willow can be used to make Willow Water, a natural rooting hormone.  Our willow is an ideal material for making rooting hormone for your organic seedlings.  We are happy to provide instructions for making willow water upon request.   Willow cuttings for growth hormone are available for shipping at time of order. 
Willow cuttings are harvested each winter and stored for planting in the spring.  Your planting time will depend on your area but typically should be about 2 weeks before you’d put tomatoes in the ground. In our area that means planting in mid-April.  However, we’ve planted as early as March and as late as June, all have done well. 
We suggest preparing your ground by tilling, fertilizing is usually not needed.  You’ll want to use some type of weed suppressor with your new plantings.  Examples: cardboard, weed barrier fabric, or thick mulch.  If you don’t, you’ll need to keep the area well weeded.  Willows require full sun.  Contrary to popular belief they do not need swampy ground.  Our willows are planted on tilled pasture ground, without irrigation.   
We recommend planting your cuttings directly into the ground.  To plant you’ll make an 8-9” deep hole with a piece of rebar or a large screwdriver and drop in one of our 12” willow cuttings.  The 8-9” inches below ground will root, the 2-3” above ground will sprout branches.  We do not recommend starting your plants in water or pots for transplanting. 
Coppicing or pollarding annually is a great way to manage willows for weaving materials. By cutting them back each year, you're promoting strong new growth, which provides you with long, flexible stems ideal for weaving. Coppicing (cutting at ground level) encourages a bushy, multi-stemmed growth from the base, which can give you plenty of straight, strong rods. Pollarding, on the other hand, typically involves cutting higher up the stem (usually above head height) to encourage growth from that point. We prefer coppicing, we feel it provides us with more stems, longer growth.  With annual trimming your willow bush will continue to sprout branches each spring for about 20 years.  
We are proud to be a Registered West Virginia Nursery and a member of the WV Grown Program.  Documentation of nursery registration and organic certification available upon request. Please contact us if you have any questions.