the largest living willow structure in the world!

A few months ago I subscribed to an amazing magazine called "living woods".  Every issue is excellent.  I read every issue over and over - there is just something in it that really feeds me.

In this most recent issue there is an amazing living willow structure.  I tried to search the net to share a picture here, but I couldn't find a picture.  As it turns out, the editor of the magazine wrote to me to ask about the rocket mass heater stuff!  So I asked I could lay the magazine out, take a picture of the picture and push that up here.  He emailed me a pdf and said I could put that up!

So here is the picture and the pdf he sent me!

I just figured out that the pdf contains about six pages of the magazine ...

Oh!  And I should point out that even though the magazine is called "living woods" and this particular piece is about "living willow structures" that the magazine is more about being a woodsman:  axes, drawknives, green woodworking, shaving horses, wood heat, and ... generally bonding with woodland.

Fascinating idea. I'm curious as to what it looks like now, 10 years later. How are their plans to have it become a totally living structure progressing? Anybody have any information about that?

Thanks,
Tim

That is quite amazing.  Is it 4 willow trees' branches  woven together or just 2 trees?  

It looks like it took a little while to get going.
planted in 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8071372.stm

summer 2011

It looks a bit more like a pylon and less like an archway in this image.

May2023

I guess they stopped some of the annual pruning. It's difficult to see if the arch structure is still there. Certainly a healthy lookng clump of trees though!

images from https://www.geograph.org.uk/