Show us your Larix (larch)

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Beautiful. But HOW do you move that . . . ? The roads here in NYC would bounce that thing off the stone even if it was wired down.
I moved it with some rubber under it and a few blankets around it in a big van. Thankfully I have a big van for my business. There was a little crossing my fingers and hoping for the best going on.
 

Adamski77

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I want to create one more larch forest on a slab or a rock next spring … I’m totally mystified by Larch forests. I built this one in early spring.
same here my friend... though in Shanghai american/european larches don't do well. I Bought some stuff last weekend though... local version of larch... and will be cooking something over next weekend or couple....
 

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MMJNICE

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This tree I got two years ago and was rather large. When I would estimate it was around 5 feet high. I started off with wiring the trunk in a "S" shape then 6 months later I Reply raffia and bent it further, another 6 months I bent it still further into the knot shape it's in now and applied more raffia. When I learned about raffia I fixed a lot of trees I began learning on 😉 its still in development even tho i just had to pot into a pot20230412_032116.jpg
 

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How far south in the US do you think you can safely grow a larch? I bought a Tamarack larch from Facebook auctions last year and it seems to struggle. It is 8” tall and very sparse. The foliage is extremely fragile and seems to wilt easily. It is currently very wilted and I’m wondering if that’s from all the rain we got in the last week. We had about 2 1/2” over 3-4 days. The picture below is from a month ago.

I’m in St. Louis, MO. I keep it in the shade and make sure it doesn’t dry out for long. I’m wondering if I need to sell it to someone up north and give up trying to grow the species. I’d like to know how far south anyone is able to grow them successfully. Any advice is appreciated!
Yeah you're not going to keep the tree happy that far south but from what I hear it normally takes a few years for a larch to start suffering from lack of freeze temperatures during the winter. When I started reading this post I thought you where going to say something like Tennessee.. but I'm in the same boat I live in Ohio and bought a buttonwood on Facebook auction.. I would suggest a trade but I would say I spend a fair bit more on my buttonwood 300 hundo 😖🤦🏿.. I did find a Feasible way to keep my tree alive and fairly happy over the winter thanks to this forum but it's still a pain.. I may find someone to trade me a tree,, something of Equal value so there's that I guess.. so I guess the point is when there a will,,there's a way,,, but it may cost yah more then what the tree is worth or more effort then the trees worth in my case.. like the black olive I got that's slowly Dying because of lack of sunshine in Ohio.. BTW I didn't realize how old this post was lol,,!
 
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All Western Larch (Larix occidentalis).
 

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All Western Larch (Larix I was wondering how long it takes for a larch to get bark on the trunk? My tree was probably 5 feet high and it was still very young skinny and straight... key word "was"
 

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Still not budded, but soon.
 

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My Tamaracks
 

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finally found time to put all together. At this (first) step focused mainly on placement and positions of the trees... happy with outcome... might need to tweak few trunks later but they are where I planned/wanted. Key now will be the trees recover and grow... they are super young so hope for all 11 to survive. Left all branches I could... esthetics will come later together with development.
 

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