Deer Resistant | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com Buds up! Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:46:49 +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 Deer Resistant | Vermont Willow Nursery https://vermontwillownursery.com 32 32 196090059 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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USDA Hardiness Zone

5+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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Female

Potential Height

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 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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USDA Hardiness Zone

4 - 8+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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Male

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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 purpurea ‘Pendula’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-pendula/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:26:29 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1518 Weeping Purple Willow

purpurea - purple

 

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USDA Hardiness Zone

3+

Blooming Period

Mid-to-late Spring

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6 ft / 6 ft

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Ornamental weeping shrub

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]]> This is the weeping form of a female Purple Willow and it’s a handsome plant worthy of a space in any garden, particularly great cascading over large rocks and tumbling into a pool or pond. It is often grown as a top-grafted weeping standard.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 1518 purpurea ‘Leicestershire Dicks’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-leicestershire-dicks/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:21:32 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1512 Purple Osier Willow

purpurea - purple

 

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4+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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This clone has very slender dark red stems, small leaves and male flowers. The slender rods make it a really good variety for fine basketry. It has been grown in our nursery since April 2014, introduced by the Chicago Botanical Garden.

Another selection that was new to us and this one came from the Chicago Botanic Garden from the side of one of their many parking areas! This clone has very slender dark red stems, small leaves and male flowers. Leicestershire, of course, is a County in the UK and used to be an important willow rod growing area. We have only grown this since April ’14 and it has not made much size yet, so we know little about it. It appears to be slower growing than other clones; the slender rods make it a really good variety for fine basketry. It is said to produce 6-7ft rods in England, however willows tend to grow taller in North America because of the hotter weather! We will coppice it this spring and see how it responds to that! More information will come as we observe it this year!

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

Aric’s Update: Takes super well to coppicing! Grows just as fine, and responds just as well, as the rest of the purpurea – weave away!

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]]> 1512 purpurea var. sericea https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/purpurea-var-sericea/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:40:39 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1491 Silky Purple Willow

purpurea - purple

sericea - silky

 

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4+

Blooming Period

Mid Spring

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15 ft tall x 10 ft wide

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]]> This unique purpurea variety is distinguished by having silky hairs on the young growth; no other purpurea has this feature (there may have been some hanky-panky with another species somewhere back in time). It has been suggested that it is a hybrid with Salix viminalis or a selection of S. gilgiana! Stems are orange-brown in the first winter and age to gray in future years. Ours is a female selection with lots of catkins that start gray and mature green. It makes a dense bush similar to Salix purpurea ‘Gracilis’ but grows larger and more erect (6-7ft after six years) so it makes a great fence for deer protection. The leaves and stems are similar to ‘Gracilis’ in size and shape. Think of it as a ‘Gracilis’ on steroids.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

 

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]]> 1491 triandra ‘Noir de Villaines’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/triandra-noir-de-villaines/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:36:29 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1480 triandra = three stamens

 

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Unknown as of yet, at least 4

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Late Spring

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]]> A french basketry willow that grows 6 to 8 feet in one season after coppicing; one of the most vigorous and stocky of triandra selections. Like other triandras, it breaks dormancy later than many other species, thus extending the flowering season for willows which makes it useful for beekeepers. It is a male selection and has 2 to 3 inches long slender yellow catkins. The young stems are dark reddish-brown to dark chocolate colored. If left to become a tree, the bark peels in interesting patterns with cinnamon coloring. The leaves are finely toothed, dark green and shiny on the upper surface and pale green on the under side. They are also darker and rounder than that of the other selections. Also has good yellow autumn colors. It is a very useful basketry variety and can also be used for small living structures.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 1480 triandra ‘Black Maul’ x ‘Grisette Noire’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/triandra-black-maul-x-grisette-noire/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:32:42 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1476 triandra = three stamens

Grisette = a French working-class girl or young woman

 

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3+

Blooming Period

Late Spring

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]]> This is a cross between popular basketry willow ‘Black Maul’ and a French selection named ‘Grisette Noire’. It makes a good ornamental shrub; useful for hedging; a valuable basketry willow; useful for living structures. Best if coppiced to produce the long, straight rods. This (and our other triandras) are late bloomers that would work well for those interested in attracting pollinators throughout Spring.

Specific details for this selection are scant. Once we learn more we’ll update this page.

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]]> 1476 triandra ‘Black Maul’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/triandra-black-maul/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:28:04 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1470 Almond-leaf Willow

triandra = three stamens

maul = malleable

 

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Blooming Period

Early Summer

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]]> ‘Black Maul’ is one of the most recognized in European basketry. Triandra is a robust, bushy shrub or small tree to 30 feet. The young stems are shiny dark maroon-black and the foliage is typical willow-shaped, the leaves are 3 to 6 inches slightly furry at first but later smooth and shiny. It has great autumn color! The female catkins appear with the leaves and mature at 2 to 3 inches.

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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]]> 1470 triandra ‘Black Hollander’ https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/triandra-black-hollander/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:04:05 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=1466 Almond-leaf Willow

triandra = three stamens

 

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Mid Spring

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]]> Triandra is a robust, bushy erect shrub or small tree to 30 feet. The young stems start green but turn shiny dark maroon-black in winter. It tolerates damper conditions than most willows and as such it is often grown on stream or river banks. Useful as an ornamental shrub or used in hedging. It is a valuable basketry willow.

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]]> 1466 calliantha https://vermontwillownursery.com/product/calliantha/ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:50:24 +0000 https://vermontwillownursery.com/?post_type=product&p=194 Beautiful Willow

purpurea x daphnoides

calliantha = beautiful flower

 

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Mid Spring

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20 ft

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]]> This hybrid Willow becomes an erect small tree that can grow to 20ft, but better if pruned regularly after flowering. It has the positive characteristics of both parents. Young stems are red and young leaves start red, becoming shiny dark green above and bluish-green beneath. The female catkins are 2-3in long; mine hasn’t flowered yet, but the photo I borrowed shows long green flowers. Grows 5-6ft in one year after coppicing.

 

Description Credit to Michael Dodge

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