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White willow is a large, fast-growing, spreading, deciduous tree native to Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. Its long, narrow green leaves are among the first to appear in spring and persist well into fall. In early spring, fuzzy yellow catkins are borne along the slender branchlets. Yellowish twigs provide some winter interest. It likes full sun and moist soil. White willow is usually grown in the form of one of its many cultivars.

'Tristis' is a weeping form of white willow, a large, fast-growing, spreading, deciduous tree native to Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. Its arching limbs and slender, trailing, yellow branchlets are a familiar sight in gardens worldwide. The long, narrow green leaves are among the first to appear in spring and persist well into fall. In early spring, fuzzy yellow catkins are borne along the branchlets. It likes full sun and moist soil. Give it a site where its weak branches and questing...

This elegant weeping waterside tree is a classic for open majestic landscapes with ponds or moist lowlands. The Babylon weeping willow is an upright but weeping, fast-growing, deciduous tree native to eastern Asia. Though deciduous, it is beautiful year-round because of its elegant weeping branches that are pretty and interesting with leaves or without.

The yellow-green branches are long and pendulous. In early to mid-spring they bear soft, inconspicuous yellow-green catkins. Just afterward, long...

This elegant weeping waterside tree is a classic for open majestic landscapes with ponds or moist lowlands. The Babylon weeping willow is an upright but weeping, fast-growing, deciduous tree native to eastern Asia. Though deciduous, it is beautiful year-round because of its elegant weeping branches that are pretty and interesting with leaves or without.

The yellow-green branches are long and pendulous. In early to mid-spring they bear soft, inconspicuous yellow-green catkins. Just afterward, long...

Despite a link between ‘Navajo’ and ancestors on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, the parent species is an exotic that just happens to love the American Southwest. It originates in China where it is closely related to the weeping willow, bearing most of its characteristics except the weeping form. This cultivar was named for a specific group of trees planted by the earliest colonials, possibly from Spain. It is an upright, fine-branching, deciduous tree with a globe-shaped canopy. The yellow-green...

Globe willow grows quickly to form a medium-sized tree with a dense, rounded, somewhat umbrella-shaped crown. Its upright limbs bear small, pendulous branchlets lined with narrow, bright green, slightly twisted leaves which take on pleasing yellow tones in autumn. Small, yellow-green flower clusters emerge simultaneously with the bright green spring foliage. This cultivar is synonymous with the variety Salix matsudana ‘Umbraculifera’.

Preferring full sun, this willow is easy to grow...

The twisted curly branches of this pretty weeping waterside tree add interest to the landscape and can be cut and added to floral arrangements. The contorted weeping willow is a classic for open landscapes with ponds or moist lowlands. It is an upright but weeping, fast-growing, deciduous tree native to eastern Asia. Though deciduous, it is beautiful year-round because of its elegant weeping branches that are pretty and interesting with leaves or without.

The curly branches are long, pendulous...

A hardier but somewhat less pendulous hybrid of weeping willow (Salix babylonica), this broad-spreading deciduous tree makes an elegant if messy specimen for large properties. Its fast-growing, somewhat weeping branches have fragile green twigs. Soft, inconspicuous yellow-green catkins mature in early spring, just as the leaves emerge. The long glossy green leaves have waxy gray-green undersides. In fall, they turn pale yellow.

This moisture- and sun-loving tree does and looks well...