| Description | Salix caprea pendula
The Celtic Cascade® (Kilmarnock Willow) is hardy and tolerates part shade, pots, wet feet, frost, extreme heat and windy conditions. The most affordable weeping tree around.
The Celtic Cascade can be used in a formal garden to create a defined topiary shape. Simply cut its cascading branches on the horizontal to leave a dome-shaped tree. Celtic Cascade is ideal for planting in a courtyard as it makes the perfect small shade tree.
16"/40cm pot - Standard | Laurus nobilis
This Bay tree offers a more compact form and grows slightly smaller than the traditional Bay Tree to around 7m tall. It produces glossy dark green foliage. Leaves are fragrant and can be used in cooking. It's a large hardy, drought and salt tolerant tree. 'Miles Choice' is a more compact variety of the Bay Laurel. Produces yellow flowers which occur between September to October.
20''/50cm pot - Pleached specimens, perfect for hedging plants. | |
| Content | The Celtic Cascade Salix caprea ‘Pendula’ can be used in a formal garden to create a defined topiary shape. Simply cut its cascading branches on the horizontal to leave a dome shaped tree. Celtic Cascade Salix caprea ‘Pendula’ is ideal for planting in a courtyard as it makes the perfect small shade tree.
Celtic Cascade Salix caprea ‘Pendula’ (Kilmarnock Willow) grows to a maximum height of three metres and with a tiny bit of trimming can be kept smaller. Weeping Elms, Weeping Birch, Weeping Mulberries and Weeping Cherries all grow much taller and wider than the Celtic Cascade Salix caprea ‘Pendula’.
For more information on this unbeatable weeping tree, visit our Celtic Cascade factsheet. | Laurus nobilis 'Miles Choice' Bay Tree
An effective hedging/screening plant that can be kept clipped from 1-4 metres, or left to grow into a medium sized tree. Its dark green leaves provide an ideal backdrop for other plants. An excellent plant for topiary and is well suited to formal gardens. Its dried leaves are used in cooking and so it is an essential plant in any kitchen garden.
Prefers a moist well drained soil in a sunny to partly shaded position. For best results fertilise with a long term slow release fertilizer in early Spring, and prune to shape when required. | |
| Additional information |
| botanical-name |
Salix caprea ?Pendula?
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| Height |
4ft, 6ft
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| features |
Beautiful cascading braches, white pussy willow like catkins in winter on bare branches
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| conditions |
The hardiest of all the weeping trees, will handle wet feet, heat, wind, sun or part shade and frost
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| landscape-use |
Makes the perfect specimen or shade tree in small gardens, may be trimmed into dome or umbrella shape in formal gardens or left to naturally weep, may also grow in large tubs or containers
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| Height 6ft |
The height of graft 6ft
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