One of our favourite willows with the most adorably tactile catkins of any we know. Tight purple tinged upright catkins emerge in late Winter and persist in this form until weather starts to warm up then they burstinto full flower which as it fade looks good right through to the stage the drop of and disappearonce thewillowy foliage takes over. Large plants too big for mail order and best collected. Also we have a few grafted as standards giving us a wonderful weeping tree.