Salix ‘Celtic Cascade’
$39.99 – $499.99
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.
When trying to think of a beautiful feature tree to be the centrepiece of your garden, you can’t go past the Celtic Cascade. This magnificent tree produces dense green foliage throughout Summer, small fluffy catkin flowers in Spring and a thick canopy of elegant branches in the Winter. It thrives in the windiest of places, withstands extreme heat, part shade, pollution, poor soil, wet feet, the harshest of frost and moderate salt spray. What a tree!
Weeping trees are renowned for being on the expensive side of plants, and difficult to establish. The Celtic Cascade Salix Caprea ‘Pendula’ (Kilmarnock Willow) thrives in the windiest places, withstands extreme heat, part shade, pollution, poor soil, wet feet, the harshest frost and moderate salt spray. What a tree!
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 (that haven’t been grafted) 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.
| botanical-name | Salix caprea ?Pendula? |
|---|---|
| height-x-width | The height of graft x 2m |
| features | Beautiful cascading braches, white pussy willow like catkins in winter on bare branches |
| conditions | The hardiest of all the weeping trees, will handle wet feet, heat, wind, sun or part shade and frost |
| 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 |
