Fountainville, PA 18923
Call in an order at 215-651-8329
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Po. Box 517 Fountainville, PA 18923 Call in an order at 215-651-8329 Home |
| Pussy willows are a great plant to be planted in wet conditions. Matter of fact, the pussy willow can be found naturally growing along ponds, streams, scand wetlands. They can be descibed as sucking up the standing or available water in the surrounding areas making the land more useable for kids to play on. In our nursery, we try to plant the willows in our feilds that are the wettest. We do this because that is the best location for them to grow on and saves our dryer land for our less tolerant plants. We noticed that once they are in the soil, they seem to explode in growth both in new roots and new shoots. We also noticed that once we have dug the willows out, they grow new roots very quickly and those new roots expand quickly out of the tree ball and into the surrounding mulch. |
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Besides living in wet conditions, the pussy willow can be great in a properly constructed landscape. The pussy willow has very nice leaves who underside of the leaves are a lighter color than the top side of the leaf. In the wind, it may appear that the plant could be changing colors because the leave is being twisted exsposing the underside. Once the leaves have fallen off, the twig is revealed in the fall. The twigs are of a dark color but the buds have a white pubscence. These creates a great contrast in the winter months. |
| There are many different pussy willows. We typically growth the Salix discolor muhl that is native to the northeast but there are many other types. Salix caprea is commonly carried in many nursies and is said that it is more resistant to the canker than the Salix discolor is. |
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