An upright tree, taller than wide, grown for its beautiful silver foliage. The leaf undersides are lighter than the tops, and flash in th...Read Moree breeze. Like most willows, it has thirsty aggressive roots.
Can be grown as a specimen tree, but it also takes well to heavy pruning, pollarding, and stooling, and can be used in the border if faithfully controlled by such means every spring.
There's a beautiful 6' tall hedge of Salix 'Silver Column' in the courtyard at Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Boylston MA. The plants are closely spaced.
To propagate, make 10" cuttings in earliest spring before the buds break and set them into the ground vertically with their tips at the surface. Water regularly the first season.
An upright tree, taller than wide, grown for its beautiful silver foliage. The leaf undersides are lighter than the tops, and flash in th...Read More