Tom.. I was happy to see them again and so glad I planted a start of them in the back yard and your right if they live here in our climate they should do well everywhere from -20's in the winter months to 100's and dry in the summer they have to be hardy to survive here.
Deb..Thank You That side faces West and the shrub is called a Hakuro-nishiki' Willow beautiful in the spring, Schreiners has tree forms of it that they prune every year so they have a globe form they are very pretty in the spring