My baby tree is celebrating his 20th birthday with a new pot and some recharged potting soil. His official name is Larix kaempferi pendula but you can call him a Japanese Weeping Larch or "Larchy" for short. I've repotted him 3 times, cutting his rootlet back each time so he can be happy in a pot. A Larch is a deciduous conifer! Yes, that means every fall he loses his needles and grow new, bright green ones in the spring. And he has the cutest little cones! Not bad for a tree that is supposed to reach 60 feet in height by 30 feet wide!
Of course some haircuts were required along the way to keep him in bounds and looking "artsy larchy."
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