When you read about a plant and it says it's good for erosion control, will naturalize, and spreads by root suckers, you know that this plant is going to spread its wings no matter what. Remember that each of those suckers turns into its own shrub and that will also want to spread. And they tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on, and so on. I had suckering Evans Cherry trees - I had to take them out completely and spray roundup for 3 years to get rid of all the suckering wanna-be new trees. I have suckering chokecherries that require at least annual applications of roundup to control the spread. Be careful and at the very least give it the crappiest soil you have in your yard. Or take it back, get a refund and buy a really nice new daylily instead.

In Jax, about four or five months. Leaves are already starting to thin out now. The new green will show up in early March.

Radiation from the sun is composed of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light. If you take a rainbow and spread it out. You have all the light spectrum in a row. If you take the outside portions of this rainbow, these will be the harmful rays that are blocked out. The infrared light that is damaging is on the outside's of this rainbow. The good rays that we use for plants and our own personal growth are the middle grouping of rays that are let through. That old Winter sadness we get here in Minnesota from cloudy days are very true. The BLUE spectrum of light we see daily in the sky is the most dominate ray in the spectrum. Since it's the most dominate ray, that's why the sky is blue and the ocean water looks so blue and picturesque. Visible light causes some fading and material degradation. But Low/E coatings can't block visible light and maintain bright interiors and the ability to view artwork. More damage can occur from exposure to the sun's infrared rays. Synthesized materials such as plastic, paper and dyes are especially susceptible to UV damage. These materials are everywhere: in furniture, carpeting, plastic flooring, wood stain, wallpaper, pictures and posters. So the coatings really just try and block the harmful rays not the good ones. I'm sure Oberon will be checking this out and have a better explanation.

perhaps with the pix... we can ID it... im not familiar with 2 foot willows...one would think a weeping tree needs to grow to some height to weep.. lol.. ground covers usually are not called weepers.... and it is a common name for a wide variety of trees and shrubs... may as well throw in big city location... and soil type.. and how you planted it ... ken