With the snow and freezing rain bending all the Douglas firs in my neighborhood down today, my mind wandered to all the 'upright weeping' trees, which confuse a lot of people but basically mean a tree that grows straight up on a central leader, yet the branches weep back down, giving the plant an 'arrow' effect. There are no doubt a lot of them, but some are either little known or rarely planted. I wanted to get opinions on what people thought or if had seen particular cultivars in person(or pics! hint hint!!).
I've started a novice list below, please feel free to correct my comments, add your own or add new cultivars to the list entirely.
Cham Nootkatensis `Green Arrow'. Very narrow, bright green upright weeper. Seems to grow fast according to everything I've read.
Cham Nootkatensis `Van den Aker'. Perhaps the narrowest weeper known. 15'x2' in 10 years?
Picea Abies 'Rotenhausii'. Images and web info seem to describe a very fast growing, green pillar, with horizontal branches but very short in length. 12'x4' in 10 years?
Picea Abies 'Jacobsen'. A golden form of Norway spruce, not so narrow, but pendulous branches. Normal growth rate?
Picea Glauca 'Pendula'. Very unique 'layered' look. Silver/blue needles and grows very straight up. Very narrow as well.
Picea Nord. 'Bushs Lace'. Silvery blue upright weeper. Seems similar to Glauca 'Pendula' in terms of growth rate, size and shape.
Picea Omorika 'Pendula'. Apparently pretty 'vanilla' when it comes to Serbian spruce. Bluish cast, perhaps not as narrow as some of the other named cultivars.
Picea Omorika 'Pendula Bruns'. Highly rated by many, and super narrow with hardly any horizontal branching at all. Seems to develop at an angle in older age. Is Growth rate same as the species?
Picea Omorika 'Bruns'. Need info but apparently not as narrow as Pendula Bruns.
Picea Omorika 'Berliner's Weeping'. Seems to have a more greenish look then other Omorika's. Don't have much information about it, other then a picture I saw, it looked very narrow.
Picea Omorika 'Gotelli's Weeping'. Seems pretty rare, I remember Coenosiums website saying one of the last large ones died in an arboretum.
Pseudotsuga menie(I struggle with the genus name), basically Douglas fir `Graceful Grace'. Upright irregular growth, branches weep straight down. Gets wide as well as tall. Green needles.
Douglas Fir 'Weep Willie'. Love the name don't know much about it other then it is supposed to be large both in heighth and width.
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