Salix integra var. albo-maculata 'Hakuro Nishiki' prophouse-winter-2028 Each panicle is a foot

Each panicle is a foot or more of tightly packed white tubular blooms with conspicuous pink-red anthers projecting beyond the petals

In the garden the shrub earns a place as a well-mannered evergreen of modest size

Botanists today often fold the plant into Hibiscus moscheutos as a subspecies

a fitting home for a scarce Southeastern shrub

and no supplemental water once established

Salix integra var. albo-maculata 'Hakuro Nishiki' prophouse-winter-2028 Each panicle is a footSalix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki', the dappled willow, is an elegant small willow grown above all for the show its new growth makes in spring. As the shoots unfold, the glossy leaves emerge splashed and mottled in pink and creamy white, so freely that the whole plant reads as a soft cloud of blossom pink from a distance, before the variegation settles to green and white through summer. The Japanese cultivar name, roughly white dappled brocade, catches