The willow oak is a tidy tree when it drops its leaves in the fall. The leaves are long and slender, about 3 or 4 inches long and only about one-half to 1 inch wide.

Very few plants look as good to me next to a body of water as does weeping willow, Salix babylonica. Something about the ...

The dappled willow is a good, small, variegated tree, but its foliage can brown around the edges in a hot, dry summer -- especially when sited in full sun.

The desert willow planted at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden quite a few years ago does provide a little bit of shade to the succulents planted beneath it, but its real value lies in the ...