They're good for the basket willow as well as bringing the water weed.

One reader describes the best way to strip osiers or basket willows.

The Somerset Levels is now the only area in the UK where basket willow is grown commercially.

It was formerly used for the growing of osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, and cart-making).

Typically the willow species chosen are varieties of the Common Osier or Basket Willow, Salix viminalis.

Other common names, mostly obsolete, include lesser bindweed, European bindweed, withy wind (in basket willow crops), perennial morning glory, smallflowered morning glory, creeping jenny, and possession vine.

But it turns out that he is not one of us; he is hiking the Yellow Trail, the Greenbelt's second-longest trail, which starts at a place called Reed's Basket Willow Swamp, winds through thick woodlands and grassy meadows and ends at the Staten Island Mall.

This original route of the proposed Richmond Parkway would have bisected the swath of land on whose behalf Olmsted had pled including what is today Fresh Kills, William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge, Reed's Basket Willow Swamp, Willowbrook and High Rock Park.

Typically the willow species chosen are varieties of the Common Osier or Basket Willow, Salix viminalis.

The larva usually feeds on Wych Elm, with a preference for the flowers and seeds, but has been recorded on other elms, ash, poplar, Bird Cherry and Common Osier.

They have also partaken of the berries of the common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), as well as Coprosma and Cyathodes, and even leaf buds of the Common Osier (Salix viminalis).

For weaving, the species Salix triandra (Almond Willow, Black Maul) is grown, while Salix viminalis (Common Osier) is ideal for handles, bases, and the structural members in furniture and hurdles.

The willow species salix viminalis was typically grown for this purpose.

The larvae feed inside the stems of various Salix species of, including Salix viminalis.

Typically the willow species chosen are varieties of the Common Osier or Basket Willow, Salix viminalis.

They have also partaken of the berries of the common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), as well as Coprosma and Cyathodes, and even leaf buds of the Common Osier (Salix viminalis).