Companion plants for Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long. It wants full sun and high water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.
Blooming alongside
Joe Pye Weed
Shares full sun and high water; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds; low at 6 ft, to carpet the ground beneath it.
Perennial Sunflower
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds; low at 5 ft, to carpet the ground beneath it.
Sneezeweed
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds.
Feather Reed Grass
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds; low at 5 ft, to carpet the ground beneath it.
Boxwood
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Gardenia
Takes full sun to part sun and high water; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter; they only overlap in zones 8 to 9.
Arborvitae
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Colorado Blue Spruce
Shares full sun and moderate to high water; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.