Yes: when fastigiate (upswept) and weeping kinds are planted next to one another a visual tension is produced, because they appear to be moving in opposite directions.

Resolve this by planting a kind with horizontal branching between the upright and the pendent. So if you are planting only 3 trees plant 1 each of 3 kinds instead of 2 + 1.

I’d agree with 3 different or 3 of the same.

Thanks for feedback. Any other suggestions? I'm open to anything really including a whole different direction, but it must include weeping white spruce!

I'd place the Weeping White Spruce in the optimal condition allowed. When healthy and happy, it makes for a grand specimen. I like the idea of a horizontally spreading tree in the middle, and I'm wondering how Crataegus does in your part of the Cowboy State? Are you in Laramie County?

Hawthorns are in my top three for habit, but they can consume some real estate. Do you see Russian Hawthorn around? If these are too big, maybe a small, spreading crabapple?

How are you on space are you very limited as far as the number of species you can plant?

I’ve seen groupings of White Spruce before and they look fantastic. You could put a low growing horizontal spreader in front of this grouping. Like a low graft Firebird crab apple where the berries will pop in the winter off the weeping spruce.

Below that you could do a low growing golden juniper there are a couple of cultivars it turned purple in the winter some like it but I’ll love it and there are even some that turn orange which I like even more

Maack, I have a winter king Hawthorne and the foliage quality is really poor

Do you happen to have one? Agree a Cockspur hawthorn would also be a good option

Will, I have a thornless variety of C. crus-galli, which has been in the ground about five years and starting to take on the classic flat-topped, spreading form. I haven't had any foliar issues to speak of with this one. I would describe it as a hardy, tough flowering tree with ornamental fruit and better than average fall color.

Russian Hawthorn (Crataegus ambigua) supposedly does well in the Rocky Mountain Region. I've run across it a few times in the nursery trade, which piqued my interest, but I could never quite bring myself to buy one. You can find them, but they're certainly not common. I've never seen a mature specimen.

I’m in Laramie which is in Albany County. Which is next to Laramie County.

Here is a pic

My next door neighbor has a hawthorn. What kind is this ?

I can’t get the pics to rotate upright .mutherf..........

Looks to have the narrow leaves of crus-galli.

(Otherwise note it is hawthorn and not Hawthorne, which is a human family name and not the name of a tree)