Cuttings | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com Buds up! Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:52:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/vermontwillownursery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-IMG_0508-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cuttings | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com 32 32 196090059 salix ssp https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/salix-ssp/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:47:59 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=7655 Got a contract that specifies salix ssp?

 

Don't care about specifics, just want some great hardy natives?

 

This one is for you!

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]]> What the heck is a salix ssp? Well, salix is the genus name for willow that’s easy. Ssp, on the other hand means subspecies. A subspecies of salix is…everything we offer! This product will include a mix of the following willows, sourced from stands throughout our surrounding area:

All of which are NATIVE! Does your contract call for salix ssp? Does it call for natives? We’ve got your back!

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]]> 7655 purpurea x koriyanagi https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpureaxkoriyanagi/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:56:18 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=5436  

 

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5+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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Female

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At least 10, likely 20 ft

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Living structures, fedges, large weaving projects

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]]> This is a female selection and is a vigorous grower with clean foliage rarely bothered by pests and diseases. It produces very few side branches and even at 10ft the stems are slender.

This is an inspired cross as these willows are two of the finest species we grow and the cross is even finer in some ways. For one thing it has inherited the pest resistance and lack of early leaf drop from Salix koriyanagi and is deer resistant.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 5436 miyabeana ‘Sx67’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/miyabeana-sx67/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:35:19 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=5321 miyabeana = after Dr. Miyabe Kingo, a Japanese botanist

 

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3+* (see description)

Blooming Period

Early Spring

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Male

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20 ft

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Miyabeana originates from Hokkaido, Japan, and was offered to the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario for biomass experiments (Checklist for Cultivars of Salix L.). It eventually found it’s way to the wonderful folks over at Cornell University, who have done extensive studies on it. The fact sheet for Sx61 is currently unavailable, but can be found here: https://willow.cals.cornell.edu/extension/#factsheets

Our miyabeana cultivars are extremely vigorous! In 2020, our friend Aresh Javadi and his understudy Minerva came and coppiced our entire patch of miyabeana. Between Spring and Fall, they all grew rods over six feet long. No, that is NOT a typo! Miyabeana is a proven winner and would work well as a privacy screen, wind/snowbreak, creating living and dried structures, early pollinator assistance…you get the idea. All of this vigor and it tops out at relatively small size. This willow keeps a nice, lively green-yellow throughout the year and taper to red at the tips.

Sx67 is almost entirely identical to Sx61 and 64, the differences being quite literally microscopic.

*anecdotally, we have sent miyabeana and it’s variations all over the country, and have not had reports of issues planting in hardiness zones above 6

Click Here to Learn More About Dr. Miyabe

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]]> 5321 purpurea USDA select https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-usda-select/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:13:07 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=4150 Purple Willow

 

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4+

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Unknown, likely 15 ft

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Weaving, windbreak, privacy screen, fedge

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]]> We don’t know a whole lot about this one except that it’s sure to be a winner. It’s a little bit more vigorous than other purpurea with rods equal in diameter to the thicker purpurea like ‘Lambertiana’. Photos and more details will come as we become more familiar with this.

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]]> 4150 purpurea ‘Multinervis’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-multinervis/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:18:35 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=4142 Purple Willow

purpurea = purple

multinervis = many nerves (regarding the leaves)

 

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3+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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Male

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Unknown for sure - likely 15 ft

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]]> This is a very vigorous-growing male purpurea variety that we received under this name early in our history. After coppicing, it produces long straight rods 8-12 feet tall. In botanical literature, Salix multinervis is listed as a synonym for S. integra. Ours is definitely a purpurea variety so we really don’t know what selection this really is! Whatever it is, it’s a great variety and more robust than most purpureas.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 4142 miyabeana ‘Sx61’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/miyabeana-sx61/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:37:51 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=3118 miyabeana = after Dr. Miyabe Kingo, a Japanese botanist

 

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3+* (see description)

Blooming Period

Early Spring

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Male

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20 ft, possibly more

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Miyabeana originates from Hokkaido, Japan, and was offered to the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario for biomass experiments (Checklist for Cultivars of Salix L.). It eventually found it’s way to the wonderful folks over at Cornell University, who have done extensive studies on it. The fact sheet for Sx61 is currently unavailable, but can be found here: https://willow.cals.cornell.edu/extension/#factsheets

Our miyabeana cultivars are extremely vigorous! In 2020, our friend Aresh Javadi and his understudy Minerva came and coppiced our entire patch of miyabeana. Between Spring and Fall, they all grew rods over six feet long. No, that is NOT a typo! Miyabeana is a proven winner and would work well as a privacy screen, wind/snowbreak, creating living and dried structures, early pollinator assistance…you get the idea. All of this vigor and it tops out at relatively small size. This willow keeps a nice, lively green-yellow throughout the year and taper to red at the tips.

Sx61 has also been featured in Beyond the Pellet, as a supplement to rabbit feed.

*anecdotally, we have sent miyabeana and it’s variations all over the country, and have not had reports of issues planting in hardiness zones above 6

Click Here to Learn More About Dr. Miyabe

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]]> 3118 tenuijulis https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/tenuijulis/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:23:47 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=2906 Slender Catkin Willow

integra x suchowensis

tenui = slende

julis = catkin

 

 

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4+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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15 ft, possibly 20 ft

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Small landscape structures, wattle fences, biofuel

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]]> tenuijulis was given to the nursery by the esteemed Professor Larry Smart at Cornell whom received it from Korean biofuel developers. This willow is native to central Asia.

As the name suggests, its catkins are slender, about 1/4 inch in diameter and 1 inch long. It tops out at around 13 feet in its native habitat but is growing a bit taller in our area. It grows a plethora of long, straight rods that would be suitable for a variety of applications.

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]]> 2906 purpurea ‘Lambertiana’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-lambertiana/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:56:00 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=2775 Purple Osier Willow

 

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4 - 8+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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16 ft tall, 16 ft wide

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Streambank restoration, weaving

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]]> ‘Lambertiana’ has broad leaves that provide ample privacy throughout most of the year while sharing the same deer resistant trait common among purpurea. It’s also been observed to have resistance to insects. This would be an ideal candidate for diversity in streambank restoration efforts. We hope to offer this as stakes in the future so check back!

See the Plants for a Future Profile for ‘Lambertiana’ here.

 

The first cuttings we received as ‘Lambertiana’ were not true to name and looking at the photos of all the other North American growers that offer this cultivar no-one has the true selection. However, in 2017 we were allowed to take cuttings from the amazing woody plant collection of the Arnold Arboretum in Greater Boston. They were labelled Salix purpurea AA 1045-79-D. We have been growing and selling it under that name, but in 2017 we found out that the Arboretum had received this plant as Salix purpurea ssp lambertiana, but had chosen not to list it as that selection. After reading European Public Garden and nursery descriptions of ‘Lambertiana’, I realized that this AA selection is identical to what is grown in Europe.

This selection has been around since at least 1804 and below is how it it described in the Checklist for Cultivars of Salix by Dr. Julia Kuzovkina: This epithet most likely corresponds to S. purpurea f. lambertiana (Sm.) Wimm. (1866); syn. S. lambertiana Smith (1804), S. woolgariana Borrer ex Hooker (1830), S. purpurea var. lambertiana (Sm.) D. Koch (1837), S. purpurea var. latifolia Kerner (1860), S. purpurea ssp. lambertiana A. Neumann ex Rechinger f. ). A cultivar with stout purple stems and broad obovate-oblong leaves (Rehder, 1927). Leaves are serrate for almost entire length (Bailey & Bailey, 1976). According to Stott (2001), a basket cultivar with green stem.

So what is special about this male cultivar, apart from botanical differences? It is very robust and is the most pest resistant selection of all purpureas we have grown (25). It produces a large spreading shrub unless it is coppiced; this can be done every 1-3 years to limit its growth and to produce lots of long rods for structures and sculptures. It is by far the best willow for streambank, riverbank, pondbank and lake shore remediation because of it’s vigour, pest resistance and deer resistance (like all purpureas)!. Far better than the USDA developed ‘Streamco’ that is much less vigorous!

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 2775 pendulina f. pendulina ‘Blanda’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/pendulina-f-pendulina-blanda/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:41:16 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=2263 Thurlow, Green or Wisconsin Weeping Willow

alba x babylonica x euxina

pendulina = pendulous

blanda = alluring

 

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3+

Blooming Period

Mid-to-late Spring

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Has the potential for both male and female catkins!

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At least 20 ft

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]]> This is an old artificial cross thought to have originated in Germany around1831. It was first described by Andersson in 1867 as a specimen collected in a garden in Hessen, Germany, and later put into commerce by Späth of Berlin (Clarke, 1980). It is of the most widely grown weeping willows, especially in North America where it is also known as the “Thurlow Weeping Willow” and often mistakenly listed as babylonica.

The branches are thin, reach down to the ground, and tend to sway in the breeze. Our stock comes from the wonderful folks at the Holden Arboretum in Ohio. The catkins on ours are hermaphroditic, meaning they’re both male and female. Neat! Foliage begins light, and darkens during the year. The flashy undersides of the leaves put on quite the late summer show!

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 2263 lasiolepis ‘Rouge’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/lasiolepis-rouge/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:42:34 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=2171 Arroyo Willow

arroyo = a steep-sided gully found in arid regions carved by fast flowing water

 

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6, maybe 5

Blooming Period

Stay tuned!

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Stay tuned!

Potential Height

35 ft

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Native gardens, pollinator assistance

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]]> West coast native growers take note! ‘Rouge’ was believed to have died here at the nursery but like the majestic phoenix it rose again! Unfortunately we have no photos but the fact sheet here is pretty thorough. Once we get to know it better we’ll have personal impressions. Take a shot, you can’t go wrong with a native! If it can survive Vermont it’s sure to do well most everywhere else.

Link to USDA fact sheet.

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