The yellow willow we'd salvaged from a weaving course last year was planted, alongside some osier, in a high density plantation to produce shoots for future weaving. It needs cutting back every year to encourage more shoots to grow so I trimmed it down. I was left with a bundle of about 20 sticks that weren't very straight and weren't of sufficient volume to be worth weaving with but rather that throw them away, I elected to put them in a vase as I thought they'd look "arty".
A few days later, they'd all sprouted leaves and a good network of roots. Once arranged in a slightly less haphazard style, they look beautiful and certainly last a lot longer than cut flowers:
The remaining stumps are getting ready to sprout again too but being colder outdoors (marginally!) they have some way to go:
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