I hadn’t planted anything in my garden or home landscape for at least two weeks, so naturally, I had to visit my favorite garden center in search of something to plant in mid-October. While I came ...

This week’s WoW is the Short-Fruited Willow (Salix brachycarpa)— a medium-sized shrub that grows in Colorado’s moist meadows and wetlands of the subalpine and alpine zones (10,000-14,000 feet ...

Willows are a large group of plants classified as members of the Salix or Salicaceae family. From the beautiful cascade of the willow tree to the fuzzy catkins of the pussy willow, these plants are ...

Very few plants look as good to me next to a body of water as does weeping willow, Salix babylonica. Something about the pendulous branches hanging downward and even touching the water while they sway ...

Willow shrubs are one of the easiest plants to propagate. Learn all about rooting willow cuttings (Salix discolor) simply and inexpensively. Like most gardeners, late winter is when our green thumbs ...

But that’s just the beginning: If you want a living fence or something to feed livestock or material for a natural burial, there’s a willow for you. By Margaret Roach Want to create a living fence? Or ...

Cam Webb and Steffi Ickert-Bond May 5, 2024 May 5, 2024 The first sign of active plant life after the long Interior Alaska winter is the appearance of soft, fuzzy, young catkins on felt-leaf willow ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Willow is a useful element in winter garden design. Different species and cultivars display a range of colours ...

Maurice Mason was an impassioned plantsman who farmed 10,000 acres of rich fenland soil in Norfolk until his death in 1993. Its profits financed his annual trips to collect plants from tropical and ...