The weeping willow (Salix babylonica) is a polarizing plant. While some adore this unique-looking tree for its droopy charm, others believe that enjoying the sight of a weeping willow in your yard ...

The weeping willow (Salix babylonica), sometimes also called Babylon willow, is a polarizing plant. While some adore this unique-looking tree for its droopy charm, others believe that enjoying the ...

The ever-graceful Weeping Willow, (Salix babylonica), a majestic landscape addition, a tree that poets have written numerous prose about, has a dark, nasty secret. How many homeowners out there ...

Many of us have places in our landscapes where it’s constantly wet. We always say “plants breathe through their roots”, which means that poorly drained sites are bad for most plants since air can’t ...

The landscape around iconic Lake LaSalle is getting some attention this fall, but it may take a few generations of students to fully appreciate it. Grounds crews from University Facilities spent last ...

One of the first displays of green in our neighborhood each spring is a venerable weeping willow belonging to our neighbors, Jeff and Cindy. There is no hue that compares to the green of those first ...

Weeping willow trees are stately if short-lived plants in large landscapes. Place them behind a big pond, away from failing pipes or septic tanks, and they will bestow an agreeably melancholy air to ...

“I hate this weather!” grumbled Swain the black swan, as he and Dazel the duck, waddled to the Aviary School. The cold, dry wind blew in their face and the falling leaves crackled under their webbed ...

“The spring rain clings to the branches/ Of the willow tree/ Like pearls on a string.” — Loose translation of a poem by a female Japanese poet, around 900 A.D. Willow trees have been revered and ...