buttery yellow that reads softly in dappled light and carries a sweet perfume through the spring garden
first collected by the great plant hunter Ernest Wilson in 1907 and then
a fair description of an old plant that can reach ten to eighteen feet
Serviceberry fruit across the genus is sweet and blueberry-like with a faint almond note from the seeds
Salix chaenomeloides Drought Tolerant buttery yellow that reads softlySalix chaenomeloides, the Japanese pussy willow, is a fast growing shrub or small tree native to Japan, Korea, and parts of China, long valued in East Asian gardens for the show the plant makes in the depths of winter. Well before the leaves break, the bare branches set fat, silvery white catkins with a soft, velvety nap, the largest and most striking of any pussy willow, and the branches are cut by the armful for early spring arrangements. The