one-day course

living willow structures

location: nr Penrith, Cumbria

This living willow day will show you how to create either a willow arbour, (aka a love arbour or child's den) or a lattice screen, or both, in your own garden.

Tutor is Phil Bradley, Cumbrian willow master, organic willow grower and creator of all things willow. Phil is very much in demand throughout the north of England.

Once you have learned the technique and built something with Phil, you will want to go home and build almost anything. Living willow makes fast-growing permanent structures that can screen off unsightly areas quite quickly. They are leafy green structures in the summmer and can be really interesting architecturally in the winter garden.

You may wish to order recently cut willow from Phil to take home and make in your own garden.

dates: see 'book online' below

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the venue is a cafe on a coast-to-coast cycle path near Penrith, close to Ullswater and the northern fells of the Lake District