WPCommunityPlantingDay
The Willow Patch is a community place, and the community helped build it. These Cazenovia High School students helped plant rows of willow. The willow plants (salix purpurea) were coppiced (cut) from existing site shrubs and planted in rows perpendicular to the flow of stormwater. Willow is known to be a very thirsty plant that absorbs chemicals from the stormwater. The vigorous root zone of the plant also creates an environment where microbes are able to break down other chemicals that are attached to the sediments carried by stormwater.
WPCommunityPlantingDay
The Willow Patch is a community place, and the community helped build it. These Cazenovia High School students helped plant rows of willow. The willow plants (salix purpurea) were coppiced (cut) from existing site shrubs and planted in rows perpendicular to the flow of stormwater. Willow is known to be a very thirsty plant that absorbs chemicals from the stormwater. The vigorous root zone of the plant also creates an environment where microbes are able to break down other chemicals that are attached to the sediments carried by stormwater.