Our willow patch is new this year but it still produced a few blooms.
I thought I would share with you this myth about the origin of Pussy Willow :
According to old Polish legend, many springtime's ago a mother cat was crying at the banks of the river in which here kittens were drowning. The willows at the rivers edge longed to help her, so they swept there long graceful branches into there waters to rescue the tiny kittens who had fallen into the river while chasing butterflies. The kittens gripped on tightly to there branches and were safely brought to shore. As the legend goes...Every springtime since, the willow branches sprout tiny fur like buds at there tips where the kittens once clung
