Pussy willows (Salix cinerea) are stately, versatile trees that thrive in poor soil and soggy ground. The fuzzy white catkins are one of the first signs of spring and make pussy willows a decorative shrub. Although you can purchase a plant, it is just as easy and far more cost effective to grow a

Garden Uses. If growing this plant as an ornamental, make sure to purchase a male plant which will produce the showy late winter catkins. Pussy willow may be grown in moist soils along streams, ponds or in low spots in the landscape where other shrubs or small trees may falter.

Planting Instructions: The White Pussy Willow Shrub is easy to plant. You’ll get more catkin blooms if you plant it in an area with more …

Few small trees or large shrubs are as easy to grow as the pussy willow. When growing a pussy willow tree, you’ll find care of the small tree is …

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The Pruning Of A Weeping Pussy Willow This Weeping Pussy Willow got a very bad pruning (actually hacking!) job done to it. It looked like a round, green lolly pop!

Julieanna Hever MS, RD, CPT is the author of the best-selling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition and the new The Vegiterranean Diet

Artemisia: Artemisia, (genus Artemisia), any of a genus (Artemisia) of aromatic herbs and shrubs in the Asteraceae family. Examples include …

Cyanotis somaliensis Common name(s): Pussy Ears, Teddy bear plant; Genus of about 30 species of low-growing, evergreen perennials, related to Tradescantia, but more succulent and with greater tolerance to dry conditions, found in upland forest and rocky areas in Africa and Asia.

Picking pussy willows is a rite of spring. Want to grow some in your own yard? Learn about planting, pruning, preserving, and forcing them.