I've never seen many of this species or cultivar native to the Pacific Northwest in the Midwest or Mid-Atlantic. Every once in a while someone will use this for an exotic effect. Some large, diverse conventional nurseries grow some, as the huge wholesale nursery of Lake County Nursery in northern Ohio.

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I'm not sure when this stately evergreen first appeared in the nursery trade in the 48 contiguous states... but I do know we were using it successfully on landscape projects in central Oklahoma by 1995.
As remarkable as it seems Weeping Alaskan Cedar seems just as happy growing on the Southern Great Plains as it does in its native habitats of Alaska and the Washington and Oregon coasts.
This conifer has a graceful, decidedly pendulous form that only improves with age. The foliage is medium to dark green and roughly resembles the foliage on oriental Arborvitae.
It grows 30 - 45 feet high and 15 - 20 feet wide in the wild... but its growth rate is considered slow... and it does not get that large under cultivation. Michael Dirr says the species grows best when atmospheric and soil moisture is abundant.

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