Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin so treat the plant as

so treat the plant as evergreen in the warm South and semi-evergreen where winters bite

Site the shrub where the late-winter perfume will be caught daily

light green fronds that rise in a loose clump from spring into fall

and seeds contain cyanogenic compounds and are poisonous to people and livestock if eaten in quantity

and deeply furrowed along the veins

Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’ Vilmorin so treat the plant asThe willows gave the world its first painkiller. Willow bark, steeped by Greek and Native American healers alike for fever and ache, carries salicin, the compound nineteenth century chemists refined into salicylic acid and, in time, aspirin, which still wears the genus name buried in the chemistry. This particular willow comes by a quieter trade. Salix koriyanagi is the Korean basket willow, the name meaning just that, long grown across Korea, Japan,