Salix babylonica var. pekinensis ‘Tortuosa’
An upright tree with twisted branches and twisted bright green leaves. Produces yellow-green catkins in spring.
Salix caprea
A British native tree with yellow or silver catkins in spring, before the leaves.
Salix Caprea ‘Curly Locks’
Small weeping tree with curiously twisted branches bearing pussy willow catkins in spring.
Salix caprea ‘Kilmarnock’
A weeping tree with yellow-brown branches and dark green leaves, grey-green beneath. Produces grey catkins with yellow anthers in spring, before the leaves.
Salix cinerea
An ideal plant for reclamation work due to its ability to tolerate tough conditions
Salix daphnoides
A tree with purple young stems and narrow, toothed dark green leaves. Produces silky grey catkins in late winter and early spring, with the leaves.
Salix fragilis
Olive brown shoots look effective in winter followed by pretty green catkins
Salix Matsudana ‘Caradoc’
Corkscrew willow with undulating leaves and light green branchlets.
Uncoppiced it will grow into a small tree reaching 6-9 m high.
Salix pentandra
Very showy male catkins are produced in early summer after the leaves.
Salix purpurea
Attractive red tinged shoots are followed later in the spring with silvery catkins with purple anthers.
Salix Repens ‘Voorthuizen’
Creeping willow, Hardy. Deciduous, Salix repens, has slender branches, grey-green to mid-green leaves and an open spreading habit.
Salix subopposita
A dwarf shrub with slender erect and spreading stems and small leaves. Produces catkins with brick red anthers in spring, before the leaves.