Willows are fast-growing trees, so you can expect to see fresh shoots on your cuttings within a couple of week of planting them. Most cutting will reach a few feet tall in their first year. In two to ...

Leaves are the most useful and frequently used characteristics for identifying the species of a tree, but as trees lose their leaves in the autumn, other features become important. The bark ...

Various willow species have colorful bark that will brighten the garden, even in winter, if they are regularly pruned hard to promote ongoing production of fresh shoots.

Q: I was given a miniature pussy willow tree that is now in a very small pot. Given the weather I want to keep it alive through the winter and possibly plant it outside, if it makes it.

The dappled willow is a good, small, variegated tree, but its foliage can brown around the edges in a hot, dry summer -- especially when sited in full sun.

Willows are the most common shrub in Alaska. Depending on which source you access, there are 170 to 400 types of willow. About 40 species occur in Alaska.

The 'winter tree' ornaments at Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi start in the garden, ... Weeping willow branches and corkscrew willow branches were turned into a tree topper.