Thread: Spraying willows

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

What's the benefit of killing the willows? I know they suck up heaps of water

Grey and Crack willows ultimately smother a previoudly healthy and diverse ecology.

Willows are a shit of a tree, someone years ago thought it was great idea to plant them along water ways to stop bank erosion and hill sides to stop slips etc.
They are for ever losing branches in the wind dropping on fences and and all the crap that falls from them ends up blocking up the rivers then sprouting up. They will eventually stuff a good water sauce
And they are a mongrel tree to cut down