Salix nigra 'Webb' Edmund Cuthbert and one of the finest

and one of the finest plants going for a hot

baked the terminal buds

for the plant clothes the dry coastal hills of the Mediterranean in a blue haze within reach of the salt spray

and the American spicebush

allow room for a fifty- to seventy-foot crown

Salix nigra 'Webb' Edmund Cuthbert and one of the finestSalix nigra, the black willow, is the largest native willow of North America and a common deciduous tree of Southern wetlands, but 'Webb' is a strikingly different, vase shaped form that gathers those loose, streamside branches into a small, dense, upright tree. The habit sets the selection apart at once, tidy and shapely where the wild black willow sprawls, while keeping all the toughness and easy water loving vigor of the species. The story behind