Weeping Tamarack

[fourteener]

This is a weeping tamarack found at a nursery several years ago. I don't think it sold the first season they bought it. It ended up in a root sock in the ground for a few years before I noticed the cool flaky bark on this tree hidden away from all the other plants. I repotted it the year of these pics. I got the roots to spread in a way that will add to the composition over time.

It's cool to have the branches swaying on a breezy day. The movement captures your attention.

 

[crust]

This is a weeping tamarack found at a nursery several years ago. I don't think it sold the first season they bought it. It ended up in a root sock in the ground for a few years before I noticed the cool flaky bark on this tree hidden away from all the other plants. I repotted it the year of these pics. I got the roots to spread in a way that will add to the composition over time.

It's cool to have the branches swaying on a breezy day. The movement captures your attention.


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Is this thing on its own roots?

 

[fourteener]

If your asking if its a graft the answer is no.

 

[A Random User]

Cool tree !!!
Thanks for sharing...
I love weeping trees !!!

 

[tmmason10]

Wow, that's really cool. I didn't know there was a weeping tamarack. These don't grow in the wild like that, do they?

 

[Vance Wood]

Wow, that's really cool. I didn't know there was a weeping tamarack. These don't grow in the wild like that, do they?

It had to have been found somewhere, if not in the wild at least as a mutant seedling in some nursery somewhere. Understanding that Larch grow pretty well from cuttings it makes producing a cultivar out of something like this pretty easy.

 

[fourteener]

Larix decidua ‘Pendula’

Wow, that's really cool. I didn't know there was a weeping tamarack. These don't grow in the wild like that, do they?

One picture is of a young tree sold by a nursery, the other is a mature tree in some landscaping. They graft them high and low.

Dave, I said I didn't think mine was grafted. I'm not sure. My nursery friend is notorious for getting seeds produced from grafted stock and creating the real thing. If mine is a graft it is the best graft I've ever (never) seen.

Weeping Tamaracks are a hot item in Minnesota nurseries for the last few years. They also are selling a curly tamarack of which there is one planted in my front yard. It is obviously a graft and will never be good bonsai.

Speaking of strange cultivars. My nursery friend has been combing the woods of northern MN for witches brooms. There is something about our environment here that creates miniature versions on a wide variety of trees. He shoots part of the broom out of the tree and grafts it onto rootstock of similar kind. If your on facebook, check out a page labeled "Brooms in Trees."

All of the stuff is grafted, so it's not all good for bonsai. However once in awhile the graft is good enough to work on.

 

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One picture is of a young tree sold by a nursery, the other is a mature tree in some landscaping. They graft them high and low.

Dave, I said I didn't think mine was grafted. I'm not sure. My nursery friend is notorious for getting seeds produced from grafted stock and creating the real thing. If mine is a graft it is the best graft I've ever (never) seen.

Weeping Tamaracks are a hot item in Minnesota nurseries for the last few years. They also are selling a curly tamarack of which there is one planted in my front yard. It is obviously a graft and will never be good bonsai.

Speaking of strange cultivars. My nursery friend has been combing the woods of northern MN for witches brooms. There is something about our environment here that creates miniature versions on a wide variety of trees. He shoots part of the broom out of the tree and grafts it onto rootstock of similar kind. If your on facebook, check out a page labeled "Brooms in Trees."

All of the stuff is grafted, so it's not all good for bonsai. However once in awhile the graft is good enough to work on.

I bought a weeper larch from Edelweiss some years back and grew and trained it in my growing bed. One year it inexplicably was dead in the spring. It had grown as big a a pop can at the base so I was sad. There is something very nice about them.

 

[Vance Wood]

I bought a weeper larch from Edelweiss some years back and grew and trained it in my growing bed. One year it inexplicably was dead in the spring. It had grown as big a a pop can at the base so I was sad. There is something very nice about them.

It is my understanding that they get bores.

 

[Ris]

I found a weeping larch last spring at Homedepot lol will check back this year.
Trunk was around 1" BUT 6ft tall I airlayered it but will check later (June) on
for roots. Tree looks kewl.