I love weeping willows. I have a couple of other kinds of willows but no weepeing willows. I actually brought some small weeping willows last spring. I put up deer fence but didn't wrap them to protect from rodents and... rodents ate them 🙂 I planted some flame willows and planted them at the same time. They survived. I have some crack willows and white willows that grow on their own.
Black Willows seem to be the common native willow around here. Good luck if you try planting again. They are messy trees, I wouldn't want one in my yard, but down along the creek or the river would be nice