🌳Weeping Willow “Salix babylkonica”🤩
 
💪Size - These trees are planted in a 400mm / 27 litre pot approx 3m tall
 
👨‍🌾Features of this tree -
> A graceful weeping tree, ideal for lager gardens or parkland, this fascinating tree’s lush, curved form is instantly recognizable and have a unique physical characteristics and practical applications as well as a well-established place in culture, literature, and spirituality throughout the world.
> Salix babylonica is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.
 
☀️Growing Conditions –
> Full sun or part shade
> Frost tolerant 
> Grows 10m high and 10m wide
> Weeping willows are suited to a boggy spot and will grow quite fast in most climates.
> Require adequate water during dry periods.
 
🥰Medicine From Willow Trees -
> Within the bark and the milky sap of willows is a substance called salicylic acid. People from various times and cultures have discovered and harnessed the efficacious properties of the substance to treat headaches and fever.
 
Literature -
> Willows appear as potent symbols in modern and classic literature. Traditional interpretations associate the willow with grief, but modern interpretations sometimes chart new territory for the tree's significance.