Pandy’s Garden Center Green Weeping Willow #7

Large landscape tree with pendulous, weeping branches, a short trunk, and a broad rounded crown.  It is native to East Asia but has naturalized throughout NC.  It is one of the first trees to leaf out in spring and the last to drop leaves in fall.

It grows best in full sun and prefers moist soil.  It is effective at edges of ponds and lakes.  In residential and commercial sites, the rootlets will invade a crack in a pipe and proliferate, clogging it and backing water up for major repair costs.  It is often mislabeled in the nursery trade.

• Thrives in a wide range of soil and moisture conditions.
• Grows especially well near water.
• Produces yellow flowers borne on short catkins in April and May.
• Features long, narrow leaves with a light green color and a finely toothed margin that appear early in the spring.
• Yields a brown fruit ¼” in diameter, leaving no litter to speak of.
• Grows in a rounded shape.