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Living Willow Archway Kit
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Living Willow Archway Kit

Product Code:  CHLIVWILARCH

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Our living willow archway kits provide an aesthetically pleasing alternative to traditional archways. You can use these kits to create a standalone archway or you can alternatively use them in conjunction with our willow tunnel kits to create an impressive living structure.

Each archway kit contains a generous amount of uprights to create a 2 metre height by 1 metre breadth archway. We also include a pack of younger rods that you can use to personalise your archway further by weaving these in-between the main uprights to create additional character. Full planting instructions are included with the kit.

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Benefits
- 2m high by 1m wide
- Create a beautiful archway feature in your garden
- Simply weave in new growth to maintain shape.
- Use in conjunction with our tunnel kits to create an impressive structure
- Available from November - March

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Our living willow archway kits provide an aesthetically pleasing alternative to traditional archways. You can use these kits to create a standalone archway or you can alternatively use them in conjunction with our willow tunnel kits to create an impressive living structure.

Each archway kit contains a generous amount of uprights to create a 2 metre height by 1 metre breadth archway. We also include a pack of younger rods that you can use to personalise your archway further by weaving these in-between the main uprights to create additional character. Full planting instructions are included with the kit.

Preparation and Planting Instructions:

Handling and Preparation of Willow Rods
On receipt of your willow rods, we recommend planting as quickly as possible. If you are unable to plant upon delivery, then simply store them outside standing upright in a bucket of water (keep in the shade and cool where possible).

Ground Preparation
It is very important that the area to be planted is free of weed and grass growth to reduce competition. We would suggest marking out the area to be planted and then striping off any turf/weeds in the planting area. Dig a trench 1 spade width and around 30cm (12inches) depth ensuring that the trench is even and flat.


Installation
- Insert the uprights every 30cm (12 inches) on both sides of the trench, backfilling as you work.
- Firm the soil around the stems using your feet, but take care not to damage the stems. The soil should be firm but not compacted.
- The rods can be weaved and fastened as desired using cable ties and willow off cuts. Use your imagination to create interesting designs! Any off cuts can also be replanted around the base of the archway or can be interwoven on the archway walls.

Watering
- Once fully planted, soak the soil and sprinkle the upper rods.
- Thereafter, water as frequently as possible (a watering can per day for the first two weeks) to ensure rods remain moist while establishing and rooting. Thereafter water less frequently, but ensure the structure remains in moist soil for the first month at least.
- When watering also sprinkle the whole of the rods to minimise drying out of upper rods during establishment – this is particularly important should warm windy weather occur in the first few weeks.

Maintenance
- The cable ties that are supplied with the kit are for temporary fixing only and should be removed after 1 year.
- Occasional trimming will help bushing out.
- Fertilise twice yearly to maintain healthy growth and colour.
- New side growth through the spring and summer should be woven in and out of the structure. Any excess can be trimmed back.
- Cut back long top growth in the winter and either interweave (as dead material) or plant beside the structure.