Pussy willows are a great plant to be planted in wet conditions. In our nursery, we try to plant the willows in our fields that are the wettest. We do this because that is the best location for them to grow on and saves our dryer land for our less tolerant plants. We noticed that once they are in the soil, they seem to explode in growth both in new roots and new shoots. We also noticed that once we have dug the willows out, they grow new roots very quickly and those new roots expand quickly out of the tree ball and into the surrounding mulch.