French Pink Pussy Willow - 3 Gallon Pot
$62.98
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$62.98
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French Pink Pussy Willow - 3 Gallon Pot
$62.98
Sale price
$62.98
Regular price
$65.00
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Description
Pink Flowering Pussy Willow
Salix caprea 'French Pink'
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub or Tree
Height at Maturity: 10-15'
Width at Maturity: 12' or so
Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Broad, Upright
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: Silvery-Pink Buds open to White Flowers with Yellow tips
Flower Size: 3/4" wide x 1" long
Flowering Period: Early Spring
Flower Type: Catkin
Fragrant Flowers: -
Foliage Color: Medium Green
Fragrant Foliage: -
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Poorly Drained
Soil pH: 6.0 - 7.0 (Slightly Acidic to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care: Very Low when left in it's natural form
Attracts: Pollinating Insects, Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer - more info, Disease, Heat, Insect, Salt Air, Wet Soils
Description
French Pink Pussy Willow is a large growing deciduous shrub or small tree that is sure to be a conversation piece in your landscape, and in your home. You can't grow it indoors, but budded branches can be cut in spring to create a magnificent floral display in your favorite vase. In early spring upward-facing, fuzzy, cat paw-like 1-inch silvery-pink catkins appear up and down the bare branches. The open white catkins (flowers) are one of the first pollen and nectar sources for pollinating insects. As the flowers fade, dark green broad elliptic to oblong leaves (to 3- inches long) will emerge and remain until the first heavy frost in fall.
The image below shows the flowering stages from tight bud to catkins and finally to fully open floer.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 10 to 15 feet tall and 10 to 12 feet wide, the French Pink Pussy Willow can be grown naturally as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a small tree. Ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings in flowering shrub borders. A fine addition to cut flower gardens, pink them gardens and cottage gardens.
Growing Preferences
French Pink Pussy Willow is exceptionally easy to grow. It is adaptable to most any average soil, preferring a loose, moist but well-drained soil. Full sun is preferred however plants will tolerate some light shade. Does not require pruning, however responds well to it for shaping purposes. Prune immediately after flowering.
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