#salix

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 19 January 2025

The cut stems of Cornus (dogwood) and Salix (willow) cultivars are used to make decorative containers for a winter display. The wavy stems of Salix matsudana ‘Tortuosa’ (dragon’s claw willow, Peking willow, wiggerly willow) make a dramatic arrangement and are surrounded by a planting of Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus' (variegated slender sweet flag).

Jill Raggett

[wild-e-eep]

Pannaria rubiginosa flourishing in a boggy willow wood.

iNaturalist observation 260352463

[kristo-flowers]

More willows. Vinderhoutse Bossen, Ghent, Belgium

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Weeping Willow Botanical Garden Münster, Germany

[helluvatimes]

Red Pussy Willows

Red Pussy Willows (Salix) getting ready to welcome spring in the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

[forestfeeling]

You’ve been a good neighbor

[sleeping-at-sea]

Can you do this?

it kinda looks like sour dough bread

[banyun-gong]

@salix83261876

おやすみなさい！

[impbites]

going for a test ride 🧡💛💙

(yayyy i managed to draw OC art outside of an event!!!!! ^_^)

[haveyougrownthisplant]

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 22 January 2025

A fast-growing deciduous tree Salix alba var. vitellina 'Yelverton' (golden willow) is often coppiced (here on a 'leg' or stem) to be grown as a shrub. This results in plentiful new growth with striking reddish-orange and yellow-orange stems. These can produce an excellent octopus sculpture for a winter display and these stems will be pruned in the spring prior to bud burst before the new foliage is produced.

Jill Raggett

[wild-e-eep]

A nice bit of willow carr, somewhere down the valley. (This is from May; it's not quite so verdant just now.)

[kristo-flowers]

willow catkins

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Weeping Willow Münster, Germany

[ahedderick]

There is a swamp willow (Salix nigra) at the edge of the yard that started slowly falling over several years ago. This type of willow has an unusual life strategy of getting old and cranky, slowly keeling over sideways near a stream, eventually getting low enough to start growing extra roots along what was formerly the trunk, and the branches on the side turn into new trunks in a small clonal colony. This one has several dead branches that are growing lovely shelf fungi.

Here's a photo from 2020, it has collapsed a lot more since then. As long as it doesn't completely block the little stream, I'm just going to let it do its thing.

[unkn0wnvariable]

Willow Branch

A willow branch against the trees and sky beyond, at Felmersham Gravel Pits.