Tree Form Dappled Willow
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: As Desired
- Exposure: Sun/Part Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Our Tree Form Dappled Willow will bring a joyful pop of color to your landscape with its cheerful pink, white, and green variegated foliage. This fast-growing but small-sized ornamental tree will quickly fill out to become the star of your entryway garden, patio area, or poolside plantings, but will never overwhelm the space it’s given. If you favor clean lines and manicured landscapes, you can easily shear its foliage into a tight globe shape, and if you prefer a more informal look, you can let it take a more free-flowing, natural rounded form. The choice is yours with this handsome, colorful, and adaptable tree!
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Spacing: As Desired
- Exposure: Sun/Part Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
You probably wouldn’t look twice if you saw this plant clothed in its usual green color in the wilds of Korea and Japan. This selection, however, is a jawdropper. Simply calling its pink/white/green foliage variegated would be an injustice, so the Japanese named it Hakuro-, meaning “white dew,” Nishiki, meaning “a beautiful combination of colors”—in reference to intricate Japanese tapestries made in days past. The Japanese had been growing this beaut for some time when Dutch plantsman Harry Van Der Laar brought it to the West’s attention in 1979.
The Details
A Willow with Attitude! The dazzling display of white, pink and green foliage on this tree-formed shrub demands the attention of you and your garden admirers. This one's EZ to grow. Normally grown as a multi-stemmed shrub, this crafted Tree Form is truly a masterpiece!
How to Grow
Dappled Willow, also known as Hakuro Nishiki Willow, is a fast grower and has the best foliage color that I have ever seen on a willow. The Japanese name refers to the coloring of the leaves; the leaves emerge as a mixture of white, pink, and green. The Dappled Willow will provide it’s best foliage color if planted in full sun, if planted in a shaded area – the leaves will fade to all green. They prefer to be planted in soil that is moist, but not wet. Dappled Willows also have no major insect problems. Dappled Willows will take a high rate application of fertilizer in the fall. Fertilizing only needs to be done once a year for the first few years that it is planted in your landscape. Don’t be afraid to prune it! You may prune it aggressively 3 or 4 times during the season. The older foliage tends to turn plain green, keeping it pruned will provide you with that great dappled foliage again and again! Dappled Willows are vigorous growers; so prior to spring (either in fall or in winter) prune it all the way back – hard. This encourages a brand new flush of foliage in the spring.
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Scale
Size B
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Size B Trees:
5-6' Tall 3-4' Wide Grown in our #15 tree container. A year older than our size A
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