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Anyone have any idea how many gallons per day mature willows and cottonwood trees consume each day in hot weather?

I have a pond that losses a lot of water beyond what I think would just be evaporation in hot weather.

Are willows and cottonwoods a good tree around ponds where water is expensive to pump from a well?

What other trees might provide wind breaks to reduce wind driven shore erosion and add athletics?

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Not sure but I have a big weeping willow on rhe east side of my flow through trout pond. Jusy know I can see the pink roots in the water and it drops a lot of branches year around. Very messy tree.


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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Adult cottonwood over 500 gallons daily according to some experts I know here in NE. Couple that with evaporation and/or seepage and it's significant losses daily. I have heard that willows are nearly as aggressive. I walk the margins of my ponds monthly and pull or spray any cottonwood, willow or cattail saplings I encounter.

Conifers are my preferred choice for windbreaks as they won't drop leaves/twigs adding to organic load in a pond. Also they are much more dense and block wind more effectively. Not sure what species perform well where you live - here the Eastern Red Cedar is ubiquitous, cheap, hardy, drought tolerant, and nearly impossible to kill.


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The trees that make good wind breaks are in the center and right of the picture. They are White Pines and Norway Spruces. I like Norway Spruces best because they break the wind better and are a great shelter for birds. To add variety I also have Blue Spruces and Australian Pines. Even though they are messy, Weeping Willows just seem to belong with a water picture. I never thought much about Cotton Woods until I read the notes kept by Louis & Clark as they explored the Louisiana Purchase and talked about the grand Cotton Wood trees along the Missouri River. So I decided I wanted one on the pond. So I guess it's a trade off of what you want. But wind breaks are slowing winds from evaporating the water and trees are shading the sun from evaporation also. So trees are not a completely bad thing.



Look what comes with trees.


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I don't know the number on gallons per day. However, I have often driven Texas rural roads and seen willows and cottonwoods. If I stop to look, I always find a dried up pond.


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I started raking Chara out of my trout pond. I was amazed to find roots from a nearby Weeping Willow at least 20 feet away from the tree in the water.


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.







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