The Tri Color Willow: Best for Your Garden

Tri Color Willow stands out as the perfect shrub amongst gardeners who are after a fast-growing shrub that can offer unmatched visual appeal. The tricolor dappled willow (Salix integra 'Hakuro-nishoki' is a deciduous shrub, with a remarkable and beautiful foliage that has made it a true landscape star, giving a spectacular view during the spring and fall seasons, and as a result boosting any landscape.

A Seasonal Show of Color

The charm of this willow is that its leaves are always changing with varieged tones. It provides an interactive show during the growing season:

• Spring: The show starts when the new leaves open a brilliant pink, and soon it is transformed into an awesome mix of creamy white, green and faint pink splashes.
• Summer: The shrub keeps its beautiful variegated coloration and appears that it has been spotted in the sunlight even on the cloudy days.
• Fall: It has foliage as its main display, but can provide a last gasp of yellow in the fall before the leaves fall.

Planting and Care Tips

It is a tough shrub that is quite simple to cultivate, thus fitting amateur and professional gardeners alike.

• Sunlight: For the most intense and vibrant leaf color, plant your willow in full sun. It is able to withstand half-shade but turn out more green leaves.
• Water: It likes to establish in consistently damp, well-drained soil and prosper in the proximity of water sources but can adjust to average garden conditions when consistently watered.
• Pruning: It is strongly advised that it should be pruned regularly. Shortening in late winter or early spring stimulates a thick, bushey growth, and stimulates the most bright-colored fresh growth on young stems.
• Landscape Use: It is ideal as a dramatic focal point, to make hedges look colorful, or to put a bright pop in the shrub borders.

The Tri Color Willow with its fast growth and spectacular foliage is a sure means of bringing the all-year-round color to the outdoor landscape. In order to introduce this fascinating shrub to your garden, visit the range at Yourhomify.