Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin so the whole shrub reads

so the whole shrub reads as a soft silver mound that lights a hot

borne in clusters at the branch tips from late June through September

has long been a tree of distinction in the American landscape

Taxonomy here is unsettled

light green fronds that rise in a loose clump from spring into fall

Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin so the whole shrub readsThe willows gave the world its first painkiller. Willow bark, steeped by Greek and Native American healers alike for fever and ache, carries salicin, the compound nineteenth century chemists refined into salicylic acid and, in time, aspirin, which still wears the genus name buried in the chemistry. This particular willow comes by a quieter trade. Salix koriyanagi is the Korean basket willow, the name meaning just that, long grown across Korea, Japan,