The tree's cascading branches create a stunning silhouette similar to a weeping willow, while its heart-shaped leaves and purple-pink flowers mimic the beauty of lavender fields in full bloom.

Flowers are pinkish in colour and quite small, but are clustered tightly together in compact cylindrical bunches on the ends of stems. Willow weed is often confused with the closely related water ...

examining a massive spray of weeping willow sprigs. “When they are fresh and bursting, there is only about a week a year you can do this,” she said, as an arrangement of the tree’s pale ...