How many uses for willow can you come up with?

The Joan Armatrading song? It's a good tune, I like it a lot, even though I'm not really a fan of her work. Heard it on the soundtrack to "Boys on the Side", gift from an old GF, and a great album.

Your post reminds me that 1 teaspoon of ground bark in a cup of water, left to infuse in cold water for at least 8 hours or in hot water to make a bitter "tea," is the historical origin of aspirin, with all its uses and cautions, such as headache.

Willow is wicker and the wands can be used for everything from baskets to wall construction.

The plants have been used for stabilizing stream banks.

Split wands are used for baskets.

Whole branches are used for furniture, garden plant protection, and woven together to make fences, trellises and fish traps.

Chopped and heated willow pieces make a kind of broth that is good for rooting plant cuttings in.

It's one of the plants used for natural treatment of greywater.

And I've 'heard' that if you plant the little fuzzy lumps, you'll get kittens. ;-)

Sue

Young willow twigs can be stripped of leaves and branches, then the bark peeled off like rolling down socks. The long bark tubes can then be braided or twisted for cordage that is relatively quick though not terrible strong or long-lasting.

Thin willow sticks with the bark shaved off to square up the ends make impromptu chopsticks.

I use fresh sticks of willow for roasting some food above campfire. I cut one stick, peel off most of the the bark using knife and sharpen the tip. Than I spike the food and hold it above the flames. Fresh willow doesn´t burn well and sticks are flexible which are desired features in this case.

WHISTLES!!

Dried willow as hearthboards for fire-staring with hand or bow drills.

Willow is also good at delivering Elora to Tir Asleen.
wait, what were we talking about?