I bought one of the Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki' a couple of weeks ago to
plant in our garden and must say I am very happy with it. We were actually
looking for another graphed type willow on a standard and stumbled across
this. Has anyone else had any experience with them? It seems to be growing
well and the pink shoots are beautiful! I thought it was a little pricey @
89.99 but it was a good specimen with a nice straight standard.

I know it's a little late, but does anyone have any comments on this plant?
(good or bad)


B.O.

In article , "BiG Orange" @ wrote:

I bought one of the Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki' a couple of weeks ago to
plant in our garden and must say I am very happy with it. We were actually
looking for another graphed type willow on a standard and stumbled across
this. Has anyone else had any experience with them? It seems to be growing
well and the pink shoots are beautiful! I thought it was a little pricey @
89.99 but it was a good specimen with a nice straight standard.

I know it's a little late, but does anyone have any comments on this plant?
(good or bad)


B.O.

I put up a webpage for mine:
http://www.paghat.com/hishiki.html
I quite enjoy it, as it has extravagant color-changes through the seasons
so is very interesting to observe. Yet I have never thought it quite
"held" a location as a showpiece by itself. So mine has a ninebark & an
ironclad rhody as nearby companions, & I recently added a Viburnum
sargentiana "Onondaga". As this grouping ages they make a nice mixed
texture.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

We were actually looking for another grafted type willow on a standard and
stumbled across this. Has anyone else had any experience with them?
I thought it was a little pricey @ 89.99 but it was a good specimen with a
nice straight standard.

If you bought a grafted specimen, you paid the whole $90 for the grafting. I
have it as a natural bush, which someone gave me for nothing. In Zone 5 it is
very enthusiastic. It is listed as growing 6 feet tall & across, but has
ambitions to grow bigger. I need to prune it severely to keep it in line. It
has no pests & is a nice shrub if you want a big one. It is only variegated in
the spring. It is solid green in hot weather.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
...
If you bought a grafted specimen, you paid the whole $90 for the grafting.
I
have it as a natural bush, which someone gave me for nothing.

I am not you, and I don't know anyone in these parts giving them away, so I
don't think the whole 90.00 was for grafting. You are correct, the bushes
are usually 6.99-12.99, but around here nobody sells them, much less gives
them away.

I put up a webpage for mine:
http://www.paghat.com/hishiki.html
I quite enjoy it, as it has extravagant color-changes through the seasons
so is very interesting to observe. Yet I have never thought it quite


I ran across your page while I was researching. That's how I figured out
they have them without being on a standard like a tree.