Show us your Larix (larch)

[Underdog]

Greened up flushing out and will need a pinching soon. Got to decide on a few branches to cull.

 

[andrewiles]

Larch may be my favorite. Here is my Larch forest from the recent show in Grand Rapids, MI
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Very nice! But we need to talk about the ghost that's hauting it.

 

[p_anova]

Here is my Japanese Larix. 2 years in training. Probably going to remove the bottom branches eventually and Jin the the left top branch. All input welcome as this is my first larch.

 

[Haines' Trees]

A potensai to be sure, but here is a little 2yo guy from seed. Doing well this year, like many from this batch!

 

[Pine_nut]

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!

 

[Haines' Trees]

Here is the native range off Wikipedia for American larch.

 

[WNC Bonsai]

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.

I have 10 L. laricina and 16 L. kaempferi here in Asheville NC and there is one in the arboretum collection that has been grown here since the mid-1970s. We think it is our cold winters and cool nights that allow them to grow here.

 

[Adamski77]

ok, I'll play. A larch in my set:

As bought"
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2 year later
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wow... that is very nice move in couple of years...

 

[ghues]

European Larch RoR and a J. Larch Forest.

 

[Paradox]

Hi. Second one is realy promising.you let it grow or style up?

Hi, I am not sure if you were responding to my post so sorry for the late reply if you were.

I plan on styling it, not growing it larger than it is. It is around 18 inches tall now so big enough for me.

It was collected and kept in Maine the past couple of years so I am letting it adjust to my climate as I am 400-500 miles south of where it came from. Next year I'll repot it and will consider styling the year after that.

 

[Pine_nut]

I have 10 L. laricina and 16 L. kaempferi here in Asheville NC and there is one in the arboretum collection that has been grown here since the mid-1970s. We think it is our cold winters and cool nights that allow them to grow here.

What do you do with them in the heat of the summer? Do you keep them shaded?

 

[Fidur]

Golden larch (pseudolarix amabilis), a different beast, but so similar...: This one is now under 50% shade cloth, and doing fine.

 

[WNC Bonsai]

What do you do with them in the heat of the summer? Do you keep them shaded?

Yes. I lost a couple of J. larch a couple of years ago when I left them in the sun during an August heat wave. Both my American and Japanese larch now get morning sun until about 1PM and I keep them on the wet side but in very well drained mix. About mid-July I move them to dappled shade all day.

 

[LunaticTree]

Here are my Larix, some of them have a radical bend in them, I love that style, and love cascades of course! All of those are European Larch!

 

[DavidBoren]

Apparently, my "pine tree" is a larch. My daughter received one of those seedling/starter trees at an end of 1st-grade fair thingy, so we threw it in this random pot that had a dead houseplant in it. It's been in said pot for about 5-6 weeks at the time of these pictures (two days ago). Probably going to repot it next sping... eventually it will be a cascade.

 

[p_anova]

Apparently, my "pine tree" is a larch. My daughter received one of those seedling/starter trees at an end of 1st-grade fair thingy, so we threw it in this random pot that had a dead houseplant in it. It's been in said pot for about 5-6 weeks at the time of these pictures (two days ago). Probably going to repot it next sping... eventually it will be a cascade.

Solid!

 

[LunaticTree]

15 year old european larch

 

[leatherback]

This wee one I grew from seed. Sold it last year when someone was practically begging me to do so. Stands 6, 7 inches or so.

 

[orangeyeoman]

European Larch RoR and a J. Larch Forest.

Wow to both of those.

 

[orangeyeoman]

Larch may be my favorite. Here is my Larch forest from the recent show in Grand Rapids, MI
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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.