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Salix nipponica
Eastern Almond Willow
Plant Type:
DECIDUOUS SHRUBSSalix nipponica - The Japanese Willow or Eastern Almond Willow offers many fine features. The stems are lime green. The beautiful foliage emerges red. As it expands and matures it metamorphoses to a pleasing green, is very clean, entirely smooth sans blemishes with ghostly white undersides. Its stature may allow it to be pruned into a small specimen tree. But coppicing will provide a shorter, denser shrub which could be utilized in a hedge, a foreground to taller shrubs and small trees or a living fence. If left on its own it will become a sizeable shrub very quickly. Fertile ground in fully to mostly sunny exposure. This selection produces male catkins. If you do prune it the stems will likely lend themselves to basket making. Established, potted willow from cutting.
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Characteristics and Attributes for Salix nipponica
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Early Spring
Season of Interest (Foliage)
- Spring / Summer / into Autumn
Interesting Bark
- Colored
Nature Attraction
- Deer Resistant
Light
- Full Sun
- Mostly Sunny
Attributes
- Shrub Border
- Cutting Garden
- Hedge
- Filler
- Hedgerow
- Basketry
- Screen
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Rapid
Soil
- Fertile
- Draining
Origins
- East Asia
Propagated By
- Cutting Grown
Genus Overview: Salix
Common Name: Willow
Salix. These are the willows, a large genus of woody plants. Some willows are small shrubs, others grow into huge trees and there are many bushy species which fall in between. All prefer sun planted in fertile moisture retaining soils; some are tolerant of quite wet feet. Many have quite attractive lanceolate leaves with silvery undersides that flash in summer breezes… I have often thought of these as the “poor man’s bamboo”. Some have contorted and beautifully colored bark which shines in the winter landscape. Many sport beautiful winter/spring catkins. Nearly all willows have utilitarian applications in fencing, rods, basket making. All are very prune-able; in fact, any of the larger shrubs depending upon how you desire to employ them will respond well to pruning and coppicing. When coppiced those with beautifully colored winter stems display many more of them. And as with ornamental shrub dogwoods younger stems exhibit the best, most intense winter tones. All ornamental characteristics will be presented according to species/cultivar. All of the following offerings are established pot grown shrubs from a cutting. We may prune back all larger growing selections prior to shipping so that you will not incur the extra handling charge.