White Flowering Pussy Willow

Salix Caprea

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub or Tree

Height at Maturity: 20-25′

Width at Maturity: 15-20′

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Broad, Upright

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: 3/4″ wide x 1″ long

Flowering Period: Late Winter, Early Spring

Flower Type: Catkin

Fragrant Flowers: N0

Foliage Color: Medium Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Poorly Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0 (Slighty Acidic to Neutral)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low when left in it’s natural form

Attracts: Pollinating Insects, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Insect, Salt Air, Wet Soils

Description

Sure to be a conversation piece in your landscape and as a floral display in your home, the White Pussy Willow is a large growing deciduous shrub or small tree that produces upward-facing, fuzzy 1-inch catkins up and down all the bare branches in late winter. The buds resemble a cats paw. The cut branches with buds are excellent for displaying in indoor cut flower arrangements. The white buds open to yellow, bottlebrush-like flowers that are one of the first pollen and nectar sources for pollinating insects. As the flowers fade dark green broad elliptic to oblong leaves up to 6 inches long will emerge and remain until the first heavy frost in fall.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 20 to 25 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide, the White Pussy Willow can be grown naturally as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a small to mid-size tree that is ideal for use as a beautiful specimen or in groupings along borders. A fine addition to cut flower gardens, pollination gardens, and cottage gardens.

Growing Preferences

White Pussy Willow is exceptionally easy to grow. It is adaptable to most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full to most sun. Light shade is tolerated. Does not require pruning, however responds well to it for shaping purposes. Prune immediately after flowering.

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