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Salix Caprea Pendula? (Weeping Pussy Willow)
Last year I purchased a type of small weeping pussy willow tree from
Morrisons, but unfortunately the specimen I purchased wasn't brilliant. I thought perhaps it would send out new growth this year, but sadly hasn't done so. Any advice please : I know the tree will not grow any taller, but will the cascading part of the plant fill out? Is this the type of plant that suitable for pruning, and if so, when? How far do I prune back etc. Will pruning encourage new shoots etc. and will they cascade down? Very much in the dark about this, please can someone help me. Thanks |
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Salix Caprea Pendula? (Weeping Pussy Willow)
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:16:24 +0000, in uk.rec.gardening you wrote:
In article , janet.bennett writes Last year I purchased a type of small weeping pussy willow tree from Morrisons, but unfortunately the specimen I purchased wasn't brilliant. I thought perhaps it would send out new growth this year, but sadly hasn't done so. Any advice please : I know the tree will not grow any taller, but will the cascading part of the plant fill out? Is this the type of plant that suitable for pruning, and if so, when? How far do I prune back etc. Will pruning encourage new shoots etc. and will they cascade down? Well, mine hasn't! But at least it has pussies on it this year. Very much in the dark about this, please can someone help me. Thanks Well, the weeping willow tree is Salix babylonica (syn. S. pendula). I see in the RHS pruning book that, in the list of tree forms, it states, in the "weeping standard" section, that S. caprea is one of the trees ideal for this form. What did the label say? Anyway, unless you were intending to purchase a tree which will end up really huge, if the label says caprea then I suppose you should be grateful. What it says in the short bit about weeping standards: Almost always produced by top working, that is, grafting several buds at the top of a clear stem. A highly unnatural form needing maintenance pruning throughout its life. A few, naturally occurring weeping trees, can be trained in this way. Later in the book it goes on the explain how to train a weeping standards and naturally weeping standards (if you do indeed have S. pendula and if the intended situation is not one which lends itself to leaving in that place something which posterity will enjoy as a huge tree, maybe this last section could be of interest in providing methods of taming. There's an element of topiary in a lot of pruning. Umm .. is it in your library? I have a weeping crab apple I purchases from Crocus. It was called a "Weeping crab 'Malus Red Jade'". I think these days I prefer to grow plants which have two Latin names, so I am wondering about it - I know the crab apple is M. sylvestris but I notice Crocus call all sorts of things "crab apples": Malus x zumi var. * 'Malus x robusta and the Japanese Crab Apple 'Malus floribunda' Whichever nursery did the grafting seems to have done it quite well - too well really and my challenge now is to get another shoot with apical dominance growing upwards again. I would like it weeping at a higher elevation you see. It is just budding out now and I am very pleased with its appearance so far. If it produces palatable fruit as well, that will be a big bonus. Hussein Grow a little garden |
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