March 14, 2013 -- fasciated willow

This is a new vase (series of three bottles in a wire basket) that I bought in Staunton last weekend. Really like it. I've filled it with small twigs of fasciated willow, which, at this stage, looks like pussy willow but will eventually have flattened, and often knotted or twirled, branches.

I cut these small, fasciated willow twigs from a much larger branch I had to prune off to make way for a renovated patio.