Help Identifying Plant and Weeping Willow

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Can anyone identify this plant in photo attached and advise if it is good for fast growing/spread? Also any advice on best variety of weeping willow with very full and green drooping foliage? We bought several of the Kilmarnock variety and they have grown very little in 3 years and still look sparse and unimpressive! Thanks

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Kilmarnock Willows are small and unimpressive, they won't get taller than the stem they're grafted onto except by a the thickness of yearly stems piled up
Kilmarnock willows often seem to look quite untidy or lopsided, and are only really pretty when the "pussy willow" catkins are out. I'd look for something else, I think; there are some pretty flowering cherries with a weeping habit, which will give you autumn colour as well as spring flowers. Cheal's weeping cherry is a well-known one. Or if you like silver foliage, you could grow the willow-leaved pear, which has "willow-like" leaves but is easier to grow well.