Salix chaenomeloides Drought Tolerant unusual fruit

unusual fruit

first collected by the great plant hunter Ernest Wilson in 1907 and then

this aromatic shrub carries soft

buttery yellow that reads softly in dappled light and carries a sweet perfume through the spring garden

so that the whole tree seems to pour toward the ground

Salix chaenomeloides Drought Tolerant unusual fruitSalix chaenomeloides, the Japanese pussy willow, is a fast growing shrub or small tree native to Japan, Korea, and parts of China, long valued in East Asian gardens for the show the plant makes in the depths of winter. Well before the leaves break, the bare branches set fat, silvery white catkins with a soft, velvety nap, the largest and most striking of any pussy willow, and the branches are cut by the armful for early spring arrangements. The