Weeping Alaska cedar has soft needles and more of an arching, shaggy habit than a deeply weeping one. It grows upright but “fattens out” with age, ending up around 25 feet tall and 10 to 12 ...

Q:The black walnut tree in my yard gives off nice shade. It is planted close to the house and this last year it did not drop any walnuts. Usually, I pay the neighborhood kids to pick up the nuts ...

Very few plants look as good to me next to a body of water as does weeping willow, Salix babylonica. Something about the ...

I’d rather do that and remove the tree altogether when it outgrew its situation than settle for the poisoned dwarfs. Am I being harsh? No. To gaze upon a weeping tree that weeps gracefully, rather ...

Why do some trees weep? Because they want to grow down. Instead of reaching for the sky, as most trees do, young stems of weeping trees toy only briefly with upward growth before arching gracefully… ...

Weeping cherries are one of the most-requested nursery trees, and one of the least understood. They also have a very high failure rate; after dogwoods they are our highest warranty cost item.

Picking a weeping tree for the garden, however, requires more of a nuanced eHarmony approach. These plants have unusual habits and oversize personalities: whimsical, morbid, grandiose.

I have an established weeping cherry blossom tree in my front yard (west facing). It appears to have had better days. I think the drought a couple of summers ago damaged it. We lost one of its ...