I grow trees near Edmonton Alberta. I have a bunch of Laurel willow cuttings started. Now it's time to do the web page. I have found several good pictures of mature specimens on the USDA plant site. I'm looking for some good pix of LW in the sapling and pole stages. If you have LW at roughly the 1" and 2-3" trunk diameter stages, I'd appreciate a good picture. Photocredit can be included in the caption, and/or a link back to a relevant page on your website. Pictures should be a megapixel after cropping. I need pix that show the shape of the tree. An uncluttered background is essential. I've found generally that shooting against a dark sky is a good way to see the tree. Against a building, or in an open park also works. Tree shots as part of a dense planting are hard to make out.
Re: Looking for Bay Willow (Salix pentandra) pics Growing wild, Kielder, Northumberland, UK: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salix_pentandra0.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salix_pentandra1.jpg I'm a bit dubious about the USDA photos, they don't look entirely typical to me, and may be hybrids (they also get the English name wrong, it's Bay Willow, not "laurel willow").
Well, Laurel and Bay are two names for the same plant. So laurel willow and bay willow are reasonable. Here it's almost always Laurel Leaf Willow. The USDA pix are closer to what I've seen in farm shelterbelts here than is the wiki commons ones.
