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‘Polish Purple’ Willow

bare-root plants
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$20.25
Item: 7629-A
stock details: 1–3' bare-root plants
Salix purpurea

10-15' × same. A top-notch basketry willow with abundant long pliable unbranched withes. When dried then soaked, rods turn a greyish olive-green with pinkish blush, useful in any part of a basket. Pale green narrow oblong leaves are nearly opposite along burgundy-tinged shoots. Once established it can grow 6–9' tall each season if coppiced annually. 

Prefers sun and loamy wet soils, but adaptable. Zone 3.

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Hardy to Zone
3
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Additional Information

Willows Salix spp.

The genus Salix comprises hundreds of different species of plants most commonly called willows but sometimes called Osier or Sallow. Willows grow all over the world. Some, like the weeping willow, are towering specimens. Others are short scrubby bushes; willows growing in the arctic can be 100 years old but only 2' tall! Uses include ornamental landscaping, shade, basketmaking, erosion control, timber, fuel and medicine. All parts, especially the bark, contain salicin, used for relief of pain and fever for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. Aspirin is a synthetic analog of salicin. Willows feed local wildlife, insects and birds. We plant them near the orchard to provide early season forage for our native pollinators. All prefer sun and loamy wet soils, but are adaptable, easily transplanted and fast growing.

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Items from our perennial plants warehouse ship from early March through mid-to-late May, weather depending, beginning with warmer USDA zones.