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,,!