Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods part 14, 0 by ViburnumValley

ViburnumValley wrote:
To all the comments about the Weeping Larch (Larix kaempferi 'Pendula')...

That is one of a pair that flank the front steps. These came from Roy Klehm in Chicago as 5G plants, and were planted at the front steps in 1990 when we built the house.

They survived the heavy clay, next to no watering for the first seven years till we got city water - and even widening the steps one year and replacement of all the porch rails another year.

The way they've been trained along the railiings - now down to the corners 20' away - is one of life's happy accidents.

Hard to beat the unusual shade of summer green, the bronzy golden fall tones - and the exquisite feathery texture of those needles.