When the kids were growing up, we had a giant weeping ... mess in the yard, when the kids were sassy or needed some consequences, we would send them outside to pick up willow branches.

For those reasons, this isn't is a good tree for near a house, patio or in a small yard. Big willows like weeping willows have ... you since you mainly see the front (unobstructed) side of the ...

Many yards benefit from some weeping tree, whether it’s a willow along a streambank, a weeping cherry lending grace and tranquility to a front lawn, or a weeping beech providing a hideaway for kids.

Decades later, when I bought my first home, my dad set to planting trees right away, including a weeping willow by the creek in our front yard. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree ...

When the kids were growing up, we had a giant weeping ... mess in the yard, when the kids were sassy or needed some consequences, we would send them outside to pick up willow branches.

When the kids were growing up, we had a giant weeping ... mess in the yard, when the kids were sassy or needed some consequences, we would send them outside to pick up willow branches.

When the kids were growing up, we had a giant weeping ... mess in the yard, when the kids were sassy or needed some consequences, we would send them outside to pick up willow branches.

Willow trees can look magnificent, but can also leave a magnificent mess in yards. When the kids were growing up, we had a giant weeping willow tree in the backyard. It was a magnificent specimen ...