Nice tree im sure it will color up mine are still green

Lou, any wood alive yet on the weeping BC that 'perished'.

Dax

Dax, it's still alive. It stabilized and stopped dropping needles. Whew. Looks ugly but still alive...

Want to try out that Montezuma cypress? I could send you some scions to see if it'd survive in your area or not. The mother plant is surrounded by BCs so maybe there is some BC DNA for extra cold hardiness trait in this tree?

Yep, send em both please. I'm having friends do the grafting this winter cause I live on cheese and crackers when I'm grafting it's so expensive. So, I can't do it every-year.

Glad that weeper made it, wheeew! Put a name on it, a temp name is all you need for now. Taxodium distichum (?). We'll use ( ) for the temp name. Still try and make it a good one. That's the single best Taxodium weeper I have seen with an upright leader.

Thanks Lou.

Dax

Went to Stephen F Austin Arboretum....

This is mother tree to that tree in the first picture-

I was told only 26 inches of rainfall for the year there. I guess that tree is more drought hardy than thought.

While I was there, I picked up 5 different China T. mucronatum clones to do a trial in my area.

I was told that they are significantly more evergreen than bald cypress. Will have to wait till end of 2012 to find out.

Here is a link that might be useful: Taxodium Breeding Brochure from the Nanjing Botanical Garden

You've given me a new perspective on what happens when it gets to 40 degrees or so at the 1800-ft hillside near Los Angeles where my MC and I live: it "colors up" not just "turns brown and looks ugly." Interesting also that it's brown closest to the ground (cold sinks, heat rises!) and the top (now about 20-25 ft) is still greenish. Am I right that this "color" is due to the cold?

Annie,

I have no idea. My MC seedling in the ground is still mostly green after 23*F overnight weather on 7th of this month. Same for all hybrids IN THE CONTAINERS. I had a couple nights of heavy frosts too. The MC seedlings turned color in the containers so I assume that the hybrids are more evergreen. I asked the person that gave the hybrids to me abut it and he told me that they are very strongly evergreen.

Lou,

Any chance of a/several photo upload(s) of that weeper BC? I can't seem to find it on GW search.

Appreciated,

Dax

Dax,

Here you go!

Lou, the weeping Cypress sure is gorgeous. I what gorgeous delicate lady like texture all these types have. I love it. Do these grow from cuttings?