Plant of the Week 56 is Weeping Willow, with both
Salix babylonica or
Salix alba 'Tristis' acceptable.
According to Dirr much taxonomic confusion exists about Willows, especially the weepers. Nevertheless, I'm gonna agree with jwholden, mant and Mark Oomkes that the plant pictured is in fact
Salix alba 'Tristis'.
Congratulations to HardDaysKnight, dan deutekom, NCSULandscaper, Lanelle, 4seasons, RottieMommy, jwholden, Hamons, phototropic1, TrickyDick, rivergirl, Fine Edge, groundwork, mant, prapoza, OptaGreen, Mark Oomkes, HRLand, and GLAN. Thats 19 members out of 2088 GTXers who got it right, or a sterling .90996 %. Way to go GTX!!
Finally, for those of you who said 'Yuck!', here's a little Dirr from the 6th edition of the
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants
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called the Golden Weeping Willow and certainly one of the hardiest and most beautiful of the weeping types...the typical tree is immense with large stout ascending branches with secondary branches steeply pendulous and often sweeping the ground, the whole tree rather dignified and majestic.
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Oh yeah, HardDaysKnight had this to say about POTW56:
If I am wrong, I Willow you a PKG Gardens hat
and start Weeping because I rarely guess right.