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How does your basketry
garden grow? Whether you are growing plants to harvest and prepare for
basketweaving or decorating with basketry inspired gardening accents, you will
find a range of resources.
Today's Gardening Special Offer
Backyard Baskets
Join Judy Zugish in her fiber arts garden for her latest seminar series at
Fishsticks Basketry School located in Marysville, WA.
Bamboo
Growing habits of bamboo, bamboo museums, bamboo
basketry techniques, basketmaking supplies with sources for a wide range of bamboo species
used in basketweaving that you can grow yourself in your home garden.
Baskets In Your Garden
A video playlist featuring living willow garden structures, twiggy
trellis and arbor making and other basket weaving outdoors in your
garden or landscape.
Cattail
Learn to identify, tend, harvest and process cattails for basketmaking.
Free $25 off any order of $50 or more at Brecks Bulbs
Enjoy this gardening discount
coupon when you are selecting daffodils, narcissus, iris or other bulbs for your
basket garden. It is quite a deal.
Grow Your Own Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes or Muhlenbergia capillaris)
Help sustain the tradition of South Carolina Low Country basket making
by growing your own plot of sweetgrass or include some plants in your landscape.
Gourds
In Your Basket Garden
Information about gourd basketry. Gourd growers, organizations, tools,
basketmaker/gourd artists, projects, tips, tutorials and techniques on how to
grow and use gourds in your basket weaving. Gourd basketry guilds, associations,
gardening tips, techniques and supplies.
Making
A Willow Obelisk
Free, step-by-step illustrated instructions for making a plant support structure
from willow rods or other saplings. A free gardening project from the BBC.
Pine
Needles
Learn to identify which pine trees have useful needles, how to process
and store needles. Plant several trees in your landscape or garden and have an ample
resource for your coiling projects.
Sweetgrass To Grow From Plants Or
Plugs
A variety of resources to help you start growing your own sweetgrass that is
used in historic Eastern Woodlands Native American basketry.
Willow
Growing Information
Plant identification, cultivating, harvesting and processing willow as a natural material used for basketmaking.
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