Cut Stems | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com Buds up! Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:25:07 +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 Cut Stems | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com 32 32 196090059 babylonica ‘Tortuosa’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/babylonica-tortuosa/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:40:06 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=176 Dragons-claw Willow

matsudana = after Sadahisa Matsuda, a Japanese botanist

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

4+

Blooming Period

Stay tuned!

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Female

Potential Height

30 ft

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An imposing curling ornamental if allowed to grow, curly upright cut stems if coppiced

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]]> A unique jade-green contorted tree that grows 20-30ft if left unpruned. The color of the stems is rare in woody plants and that makes this selection so special. This male selection of Salix babylonica f. Tortuosa has bright green foliage. Less prone to die back than some twisted willows.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 176 pendulina f. Erythroflexuosa ‘Caradoc’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/pendulina-f-erythroflexuosa-caradoc/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:35:43 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1102 Caradoc Curly Willow

Caradoc =  one of the Knights of the Round Table

babylonica f. erythroflexuosa x alba f. vitellina

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

Does well in our 4a, but we recommend 5+

Blooming Period

Stay tuned!

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Sex

Stay tuned!

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20-30 ft

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Ornamental upright growing curly willow, cut stems

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]]> A contorted hybrid tree with orange-yellow young stems that are passed on by genes from the Golden Willow (S. xfragilis f. vitellina). It grows 20-30ft if left unpruned and is one of the most upright selections. The foliage is bright green and is also contorted; it is less prone to die back than other twisted willows.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 1102 fragilis f. Vitellina ‘Flanders Red’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/fragilis-f-vitellina-flanders-red/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:36:23 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=501 Flanders Red Willow

fragilis = fragile (stems)

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

3+

Blooming Period

Spring...we'll narrow it down when we can!

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Female

Potential Height/Width

Unknown

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Weaving, living structures, fantastic winter color

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]]> A selection probably made in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking area of northern Belgium. ‘Flanders Red’ has new foliage flushed red and egg-yolk yellow stems that turn red late in the summer and stay that way all winter, so it’s red in a couple of colorful ways. This is a female selection with slender green catkins 2-3in long. Can grow into a large tree, but best if coppiced regularly to keep its colorful ways forever young.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 501 caprea https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/caprea/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:27:55 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=243 Pussy Willow

Sallow Willow

Goat Willow

salix bakko

caprea = goat  

bakko = Japanese for "Big Momma Willow"

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

3+

Blooming Period

Early to mid Spring

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Female and male

Potential Height/Width

A tree of up to 40 ft! Can be easily kept as a tidy shrub by coppicing

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Pollinator assistance, cut stems

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]]> A large shrub or small tree from 15-40ft that grows wild in Western Europe and all the way East to China and Japan. In Japan it is called Salix bakko, which translated means Big Momma Willow! Leaves are much broader than most willows. Flower buds are shiny chestnut brown and open to much-prized catkins that are soft, silky and silvery to 3in long; they are produced early in the year long before the leaves develop. Male flowers turn yellow with pollen, whereas the female catkins become green. A non-fussy shrub that will grow anywhere with dry to moist soil. This species has naturalized in parts of the Province of Quebec.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 243 caroliniana https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/caroliniana/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:26:11 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=258 Carolina Willow

caroliniana = from Carolina

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

4+

Blooming Period

Late Spring

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Male

Potential Height

40 ft, possibly taller

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Ornamental, cut stems

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]]> I nearly flipped when I saw this willow in flower for the first time in the Chicago Botanical Garden in May 2015, as I had no idea what I was looking at! It was so different than any other willow I had ever seen! It was labelled Salix sp? and I had taken cuttings the previous March so I knew what the foliage looked like and I had guessed it maybe the Carolina Willow, but until I saw the catkins I was not certain. I also knew the male catkins looked like those of the Black Willow (S. nigra), so once I calmed down, I was darned certain it was the Carolina Willow. I immediately thought to myself “why the heck isn’t this great ornamental willow grown in more gardens?” I have not seen this species in any Public Garden or nursery list (try Googling it!). Also, I have yet to have the pleasure of meeting it in the wild; although I looked for it in Arkansas and Virginia as I passed though in March, 2015. I realized afterwards that I was probably too early, it probably flowers in April there.

Anyway, take my word for it, this is a great plant; hardy in Northern Vermont where it survived temperatures dropping to –25°F for 30 straight days in the winter of 2014-2015 without a blemish! After flowering the long arching branches are clothed with attractive clean green leaves that are glaucous underneath. It also has prominent stipules at the base of the leaf petioles. It flowers the next year from cuttings stuck in spring—S. nigra hasn’t flowered in the nursery after years of growing it!

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

Click here to see what the USDA has to say about caroliniana.

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]]> 258 daphnoides ‘Oxford Violet’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/daphnoides-oxford-violet/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:13:30 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=382 Violet Willow

daphnoides = daphne like

 

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4+

Blooming Period

Mid-to-late Spring

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25+ ft

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]]> An English selection of the Violet Willow that is more compact than other selections of this species. There is some confusion about the sex of ‘Oxford Violet’ as I have seen both male and female plants labelled under this name. Ours is a lady! Young twigs are a delightful pale violet and turn turquoise with a white bloom in the second year. Does not need to be pruned back as frequently as other selections. Leaves are glossy green and white underneath at first.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 382 fragilis f. Vitellina ‘Jaune de Falaise’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/fragilis-f-vitellina-jaune-de-falaise/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:08:31 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=523 Falaise Golden Willow

jaune = yellow

Falaise = a town in Normandy, France

 

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At least 4

Blooming Period

We'll let you know!

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Sex

Stay tuned!

Potential Height/Width

We aren't quite sure, we coppice it regularly!

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Ornamental winter tree, weaving, cut stems

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]]> This willow originates from France, and is named after the last city to be liberated in Normandy during WWII.

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]]> 523 eriocephala ‘American Mackay’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/eriocephala-american-mackay/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:22:54 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=414 Wooly-head Willow

Missouri Willow (where it was first named)

erio = wooly

cephala = head

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

3+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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Male

Potential Height

Unsure, possibly up to 40 ft

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Weaving, living/dried structures, cut stems, ornamental shrub

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]]> A male selection of the North American willow that is native to our property in Vermont. It is an attractive shrub with long, straight stems that are covered with catkins in April-May. Young foliage is red but turns green after a 2-3 weeks. This is a selection that is used extensively in basketry.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

 

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]]> 414 caprea Select https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/caprea-select/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:51:22 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=254 Pussy Willow

Goat Willow

Big Momma Willow (in Japan)

caprea = goat  

 

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4 - 6+

Blooming Period

Early Spring

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10 - 15 ft

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]]> This selection was supplied to us by Larry Smart of Cornell University and features stems that produce an extraordinary abundance of male flowers per stem (I counted 85 catkins on one stem in April 2, 2017), making it a wonderful cut stem producer! It was developed for the cut stem industry (I’d like to know by whom). It makes so many flowers that there aren’t many cuttings available on each stem, as the stems in the area of flower buds don’t always have vegetative buds. It is much hairier than the species so naturally we wonder what the female parent had been up to? Perhaps a cross with Salix cinerea? It is a non-fussy plant that will grow just about anywhere that is moist, not wet. Must be in full sun to produce the most flowers!

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

 

The Fact Sheet for this species can be found on the Willowpedia.

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]]> 254 gracilistyla https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/gracilistyla/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:46:07 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=542 Rose-gold Pussy Willow

gracilistyla = slender style  

 

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4+

Blooming Period

Early-to-mid Spring

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Male

Potential Height/Width

We coppice ours, so we aren't exactly sure!

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Ornamental shrub, pollinator assistance, furry cut stems

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]]> A widely spreading shrub with long graceful arching branches. Young stems are green and are covered with fine silky hairs. Catkins are produced in masses before the leaves in March-April and the 2in male flowers are particularly showy: silver–gray at first, then bright red as the anthers appear, turning orange then yellow—hence Rose-gold Willow. The handsome gray-green leaves start silky above, glaucous beneath. Native of Japan, Korea, China, this gift from the East is a great garden plant. It has produced many hybrids and cultivars and these are described in a Scientific Journal published in 2016.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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