Hi, coniferjoy Thank you for quick response. Unfortunately on google there aren't many photos of "Recurvata", do you, maybe, have some photos of it? :-) This one is too spherical to be the same specie (maybe it was prunned): http://images.kurowski.pl/foto/thuja_occidentalis_Recurvat.jpg This one is too narrow: http://www.horticultureimages.com/_ccLib/image/stock/THUM220-10181.jpg And this one really looks like it, but it is still pretty narrower (maybe because of the soil) than mine: http://www.zszp.pl/resize.php?id=17216&typ=rosliny&width=640&auto=2 ---- We are in the western serbia, around 80km from the capital, Belgrade and this year we took cuttings for rooting from 82 different species of thuja, chamaecyparis, juniperus, taxus, picea and pinus... Currently in sale we have around 55 different species, you can also check our website: www.cetinari.rs - it's not translated in english, but on page "Ponuda" you can see some (not all - it should be updated soon) species that we have separated in "Vertical", "Spherical" and "Bushy" groups... Unfortunately, we only grow dwarf conifers and not the large ones so it is hard for me to find new selections in forests, but i have some albovariegata mutation of thuja occidentalis that was produced by seed and i will take pictures, as i belive it might be the new specie... Two years ago I cut the mutated branch and left it for rooting and it was successful, now i am waiting for it to grow a little bit so i can take new cuttings, it's about 10cm high right now, with only few branches... If you are interested i can upload a list of conifers we grow, and thank you again for your help :-) This post was edited by Jalovik on Sun, May 12, 13 at 4:39

Makes me want to try. ==>>> of course ... why do you think i have it.. lol ... i cant keep track of every ones personality .. of lack thereof .. lol .. so .... lets call this a relay race.. and i am handing you the baton ... have at it .. experiment... report back.. show us the after pix.. update us next spring.. etc ... i spotted mine the other day.. while mowing at speed ... it did not take favorably.. to being under 3 feet of snow ... well qualified the the weirder the better club... or even better... the uglier the better club ... too bad it clings to life ... but will i get rid of it.. nope.. i have 5 acres ... most of you dont ... and that is the root of my 'get rid of it' ... comment ... many peeps are NOT inclined to experimenting.. and with limited space... and a personality towards perfection ..... it is much better to get rid of it.. than to try to make it into something its really never going to be ... dont you think ... get the pruning shears.. teach this thing who is in charge at your place ... ken

Stephen, There are 3 golden mutations from 'Danica' availlable in here in Holland: 'Amber Glow' 'Danica Gold' 'Miriam' 'Danica Gold' I bought it at a gardencentre in Boskoop without any furthur information. 'Miriam' is from the Visser Brothers from the North of Holland. There's a patent on this plant. I only have the 'Amber Glow' and the 'Danica Gold'. The 'Amber Glow' is a much more golden yellow then the 'Danica Gold' and will burn in the full afternoon sun. The 'Danica Aurea' is a greenish-yellow and doesn't burn in the sun, it also do have a more rounded shape.

Thanks for the comments on the Malonyana - it is a nice specimen. Dave, that stone slab is one of two I have as benches and they were steps from my Grandparents farm house. Dad loaded them on a low rental trailer with a John Deere front-end loader and me and the wife unloaded them and placed them on three sided rough face blocks two high. Used heavy-duty pry bars, cut a treated round fence post into sections and rolled the slabs to where I wanted them. Then used a sheet of heavy plywood on the ground and a hydraulic floor jack to lift them up a block at a time. Worked out pretty well and the wife even complimented me on my ingenuity. I have a couple Malonyana Aurea planted and they are starting to take shape - about 3 feet tall at this point. I bought a plant that came from Blue Sterling a number of years ago, didn't like the shape and stem structure, so I "re-arranged" all that to suit me and ended up with 8 more plants. Dax has one, StarterDude/Frank has one or two, and others I gave away. I kept one multi-stemmed plant and plan on propagating more from it starting this winter.