Cover for a hide next to a duck pond

[Blakloks 5]

Is there any vegetation I could plant to help blend in a couple of hides next to a pond obviuosly something that will last through the winter months

[Yorkshire Tyke 12]

bull rush maybe ?

[Blakloks 5]

Good idea where could I get that from?

[remi700 99]

Sally bushes. Just stick cuttins in the ground and they'll grow like feck! Then cut them and lay them when they get too high. Cant beat the natural thing!

[Yorkshire Tyke 12]

Good idea where could I get that from?

Local Garden centre or any ponds or lakes round you if you ask the owners permission. Also you could use reed maise samesort of result all the best

[Blakloks 5]

What's a Sally bush?

[remi700 99]

Oh maybe you call them willow?? Grow about a 2 foot a year and need almost no soil to grow. Theres a shallow sand bar in the middle a the lough where I decoy. At low water it was only an inch deep. Cut a few sally branches and stuck them in the ground on it. 3 Years later I have a perfect island to hide the boat in when I'm decoyin!

Edited June 23, 2012 by remi700

[DIDO.1 22,840]

Willow if its in shallow water/mud or leylandii if its dry ground, you can plant em round a pallet hide.

[Lab 10,979]

Willow if its in shallow water/mud or leylandii if its dry ground, you can plant em round a pallet hide.

Just about to say that. Build a pallet hide and a seat....

[Ghillie2506 3]

Go to agree on the willow, we take cuttings and put them around our ponds on the estate, grows very quick, could put some birch round about for variation.

[Blakloks 5]

Do you just take a cutting anywhere on the tree or branches from a particular part of the tree

[Blakloks 5]

Do you just take a cutting anywhere on the tree or branches from a particular part of the tree

[killbilly 17]

Do you just take a cutting anywhere on the tree or branches from a particular part of the tree

 

I take them just above an existing fork - not sure it makes a difference but it nearly always works for me