Extreme Hedging Porn

This is the butt end of a willow post. Now I do know that willow roots if you put it in the ground, but I needed a post and this one had a handy crook to hold down the benders. I figured it would be all right because it was going in upside down. There is no way at all that a cutting -- even willow -- could ever root successfully with its vascular arrangement the wrong way up. 

One year on, you can see the crook -- three foot from the ground -- is fresh and green and sprouting new shoots.