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Willow Cuttings

West Fork Willow Nursery

Orders for Spring 2026 are Closed! We will open for orders again in October 2026. â€‹

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Discover the wonder of growing your own baskets and plant your own willow garden!

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Resilient, fast-growing, and multipurpose, growing basketry willows at any scale can be a highly rewarding process. We find that with proper care, basketry cultivars do well in most US zones, and we supply basketmakers and farmers around the country with high quality nursery stock from our healthy plants here in Wisconsin. 

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The 40+ varieties of heritage willows on our small specialty farm are grown using organic methods, and as our only crop and sole focus, we are happy to be able to provide some of the highest quality nursery stock on the market.  All of our willows are varieties that have been grown and selected by basketmakers over generations to perform well for basketry, and many are also suitable for uses like living structures, hedgerows, windbreaks, silvopasture, remediation, ornamental purposes, and more.  As a basketmaker-turned-farmer, we know our willows intimately from a basketry lens, and curate all of our grower-selected bundles with diversity, color, and weave-ability in mind.  â€‹

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Our willow cuttings are healthy, generously sized at 10-14", and come in a rainbow of colors.

how to order​

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Cuttings are $3/stake plus at-cost shipping, US orders only.

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We currently require a 30-count minimum for orders, with 10 minimum per variety.

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New this year: Free Shipping on all orders of 100 + cuttings! 

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Orders contain live plants and are non-refundable.

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Fill out the form now to order for the spring '26 season!

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note

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 Our cuttings are 10-14 inches long and the thickest we can make them, depending on the variety.  Bundles come in reusable 2-gallon foodsafe bags, and each cutting has a clear slype on one side to indicate the planting side on the butt-end. Variety bundles are always oriented all in one direction with the label right-side-up for easy planting orientation.  All packages come with a detailed growing instructions sheet.

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With so many new nurseries popping up each year, it can be hard to know what to look for in a good live stake cutting.  Always be sure and ask about cutting size when ordering from a new nursery to ensure you will grow healthy plants with high success rates.​​

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our willows

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Following is the full list of varieties we currently have growing at the farm.   

 

*Starred varieties* are the ones we currently have available as nursery stock. These are the varieties you can expect to receive in 2026 orders. Check back in future seasons for single varieties available for purchase.  View our single variety descriptions and images here.

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*Acutifolia

Americana

*Belgian Red

*Black Maul

Black Stem

Blue Streak

*Calliantha

Cardinalis

*Daphnoides Continental Purple 

*Flanders Red

Britzensis - Coral Embers

'Flame'

*German Basket

*Golden

*Harrisons B 

*'Honey' S. Interior

Mount Aso Pussy Willow

Noire de Villaine

Pheasant Brown

*Purpurea 'Bleu'

*Purpurea 'Brittany Blue'

*Purpurea 'Brittany Green'

*Purpurea 'Dark Dicks'

*​Purpurea 'Dickey Meadows'

*Purpurea 'Eugenii'

*Purpurea 'Eugene'

Purpurea 'Goldstones'

Purpurea 'Green Dicks'

*Purpurea 'Lambertiana'

Purpurea 'Leicestershire Dicks'

Purpurea 'Nancy Saunders'

Purpurea 'Norbury'

*Purpurea 'Packing Twine'

*Purpurea 'Polish Purple'

​Purpurea 'Vermont Red'

*Purpurea x Daphnoides (Calliantha)

*Viminalis x Truxton

*Welsh White

Basket willows growing in our production bed just before harvest season.
Salix Daphnoides, basketry willow and nursery stock available for purchase.
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