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Bareroot Salix daphnoides (Violet Willow)

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With striking purple tinged stems that gleam in winter sunlight, this elegant willow brings year round visual interest to gardens and landscapes. Slender, lance shaped leaves emerge in spring, creating a fresh green canopy that contrasts beautifully with the dark branches. One of the earliest to flower, its silvery catkins appear in late winter, offering vital pollen for bees when little else is blooming. Particularly suited to damp areas, it thrives alongside ponds or streams, though it adapts well to most soil conditions. The upright, vase shaped growth habit makes it an excellent choice as a specimen tree or for adding height to mixed hedgerows, while its rapid growth ensures quick establishment.

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Bareroot Salix daphnoides (Violet Willow)

Family of Trees: Salicaceae

Habit: Deciduous Tree, Upright

Growth Rate: 50-100 cm/year

Optimal Temperature: 10-25°C, hardy to -40°C

Harmful if Eaten?: Non-toxic

Flowers or Berries: Purple Catkins

Hardiness: H7 (Extremely Hardy)

Hardiness ratings

All ratings refer to the UK growing conditions unless otherwise stated. Minimum temperature ranges (in degrees C) are shown in brackets

○ H1a: under glass all year (>15C)
○ H1b: can be grown outside in the summer (10 - 15)
○ H1c: can be grown outside in the summer (5 - 10)
○ H2: tolerant of low temperatures, but not surviving being frozen (1 to 5)
○ H3: hardy in coastal and relatively mild parts of the UK (-5 to 1)
○ H4: hardy through most of the UK (-10 to -5)
○ H5: hardy in most places throughout the UK even in severe winters (-15 to -10)
○ H6: hardy in all of UK and northern Europe (-20 to -15)
○ H7: hardy in the severest European continental climates (< -20)