willow
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Dams have been made with willow wood from pond restoration projects on the Attingham estate.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The infested willow plants were sold in 15 counties, mostly across Southern and Central California between June 24 and July 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
According to the new analysis, that figure was derived from a statistical model that used plant height to both calculate willow volume and predict it.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
"Leather on willow, country pubs and just the loveliness of England," she muses wistfully.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
He looks around at the trees, the long frosted willow branches cascading down, the topiaries that line the nearby path like ghosts.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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She has planted meadows, willows, hedgerows, tussocky grasses and late-flowering crops to give insects food through the summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Among them, the height to volume model was applied to heavily browsed willows with unusual growth forms, even though the model was not designed for such distorted shapes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
The vast Grand Palais exhibition space in central Paris was transformed into an enchanted and psychedelic forest populated by giant mushrooms and pink weeping willows.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
“All we need now are the weeping willows and the tombstones.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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