Do you know what this is?

Hey,

I have this beautiful tree (was here before I moved) which is fairly small and twisted. The leaves naturally reach the ground but I keep it trimmed to see the trunk.

About two years ago some shoots came out of the base. They surprised me because they are growing much taller than the original.

Do you know what tree this is, and why the off shoots are a lot bigger?

Thank you

 

Think it might be a grafted willow, the tall shoots coming from the base are from the rootstock.
The tree is at a bad angle.

 

Imperative to take off the suckers from the rootstock! If left, they'll take over and quite possibly produce an enormous weeping willow and the original twisted willow will die.

 

Oh right thank you so much. Appreciate the feedback!
And yeah it’s at a really odd angle - not quite sure how to rectify that as it seems set in its ways!

 

It probably started out growing away from the conifers to get more light and then became top heavy, if its stable I'd leave it, but if its loose in the ground you might need to slowly try pulling it back upright.

 

That's how they often grow/look round here. There's one near me and the canopy is now touching the ground, and it isn't even that big. I don't know why the people don't just cut it down and get rid. It looks dreadful.

They have to be really heftily staked from the start, as they get top heavy very, very quickly.
I'd rather have the rootstock!

 

I think that @jay252735 likes it.
Not a shrub I like personally but they seem to be popular.

 

We have one (weeping willow). My partner chose it but I rather like it as well. It does have its issues e.g. the trunk it's grafted on is quite small and I keep having to prune the top part so that it doesn't touch the ground, but there is something nice about its form. I know it's not very popular in this forum, but each to their own.

 

Just to set the record straight.
This is Salix caprea "Kilmarnock". The stock will almost certainly be S. caprea, the common goat willow.
The scion, the pendulous, top portion, produces male catkins. (There is, apparently, a female form S.caprea ‘Weeping Sally’, but I can find very little info on it.)
A single specimen of this totally prostrate form was discovered in Scotland in the mid 1800s, and propagated as an ornamental plant by Thomas Lang of Kilmarnock, hence its name.