Catalog Description
Small, umbrella-shaped tree, its graceful branches bending to the ground add an attractive element to the small garden or lawn. Exciting, pinkish-gray pussy willow catkins precede foliage each spring. Deciduous. Full sun. Moderate grower to 8 feet tall, 6 feet wide, larger with age. Cutting grown. |
Design Ideas
An exceptional form to create focal points and emphasize other positions in the garden. Grow adjacent to water gardens and stream beds to suggest the weeping willow on a much smaller scale. Grow in a children's garden to create private space beneath. Exceptionally romantic cottage garden accent as center point for more colorful planting. |
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate grower to 8 ft. tall, 6 ft. wide, larger with age. |
Key Plant Benefits
Small, umbrella-shaped tree adds graceful and attractive element to the small garden or lawn. Exciting, pinkish-gray pussy willow buds precede foliage each spring. Can be cut for winter arrangements. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Weeping |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Low: | 6 (>45 to 60 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 8 (10 to 20 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 4 (-30 to -20 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3" of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Erect catkins tinged pink
| Flower Color |
| Gray |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Pinkish-gray catkins in early spring. |
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Propagation
| Best time to Prune |
| Winter |
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Attributes
Extremely Hardy
Flowers for Cutting
Naturalizes Well
Oriental Garden
Rock Garden Plant
Showy Flowers
Spring Flowering
Tolerates Poor Soils
Tolerates Wet Soils
Water Garden
Year-round Interest |
Foliage
Dark green, toothed
| Foliage Shape | Elliptic |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Gray-green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | No Value |
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Plant Lore
This species is not only attractive in form but it offers florist quality pussy willow cuttings in spring. |
Plant History
The willow genus, Salix, contains hundreds of species found the world over. This species is known as goat willow and named from the Latin for these animals. It is native to Europe and this weeping form is considered superior to the standard upright growing species. It first appeared in the middle 19th century and classified by British horticulturist, Thomas Lang. |
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