Once there was a willow tree on Penn State’s University Park campus that was an off-shoot of a willow tree that grew in Alexander Pope’s garden. It was a Salix babylonica “Pendula,” and it was brought ...

The weeping willow is the best known of Salix but, with 300 relatives, this species has even more to offer than its majestic, drooping branches and fluffy catkins The most familiar representatives of ...

STORRS, CT - Grown around the world, willows are cultivated for their exceptional technical and ornamental characteristics. Willows are commonly used as stock for basket and cricket bat manufacturing, ...

I used to work on a farm in Hampshire and, at about this time of year, usually on a particularly bleak and cold day, the farmer would sniff the air and say with relish, 'Sap's rising, boy!' What he ...

Every winter, as a ploy to keep my hands busy and my brain from slipping somewhere dark, I craft and weave structures on the allotment. To make traditional structures for plants to climb up (beans, ...