WILLOWGLEN REINVENTED

Change is happening at Willowglen!

After spending forty years on our wooded farm in rural northeast Iowa - our home, farm and studio, Lee Zieke and Lindsay Lee have relocated to their favorite small town, Decorah. We continue to be smitten with the wonders of willow and the natural world and are enthusiastic about these changes.


Willow is such a natural and totally renewable resource - a sturdy basket woven of its boughs will carry countless cargoes while delighting the eye for many years. Please click on our 'Willow' page to learn more.

Willowglen 

For more than 40 years Lee and Lindy have shared the natural world with students and friends, providing inspiring gardens and beauty as well as the crafts of wiillow basket and boat making. A recent relocation from their rural property to a home in lovely Decorah, IA they hope to continue their passions there. 
 

WILLOW 

There's a song called 'Willow, Weep for Me' along with countless other lyrics all implying weakness and tenderness. Yet we can weave willow rods together to make a basket that can be filled with stones. For centuries, vessels made of willow have carried cargoes heavy and light, from coal to carrots.

Lindsay and Lee have spent decades growing, harvesting and weaving their crop of basketry willows.

 

GARDEN DESIGN

After many years of assisting homeowners with their garden needs, Lindy is hanging up his hat on horticultural design. He hopes to fill his days in his own gardens and hobbies.

Lindy

 
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3512 Lost Mile Rd • Decorah, Iowa 52101