Ken...I looked under "evergreens" and thought it odd there wasn't a forum specific for them...CONIFERS! Got it...thanks...gerbil must have fallen from his wheel on that one. Thanks gardengal! I'll check those out...and maybe even check out posting this where it belonged...in conifers and not evergreens...lol and you nailed it...juglone tolerant is important if I want anything to take root and thrive. This post was edited by cadillactaste on Fri, Aug 16, 13 at 19:58

Was it B&B or potted? When you have decided you have seen enough dig it up. If B&B wash the root ball free of dirt. Chances are you will see why it didn't make it. I am assuming you knew what to do if potted...did you over do it. Some times to much surgery will cause sudden demise of an other wise healthy plant. Been there ...done that. In the World Checklist of Conifers by Welch and Haddow, lst Edition, 1993 they indicate that a pendulous form of this plant has arisen more than once, but still rare in cultivation. Not saying you don't have it but it's probably Larix kaempferi 'Pendula' which is quite common in the trade here in the states and marked incorrectly as decidua. Sorry about your loss. Sorry about your loss.

This photo was taken 6/21 does that make a difference with the flush? Back when I bought the spiral weeping cherry. I have been trying to just research it...curious if the top gets the width size or if it's the length that pools at the base they are measuring. If I chose to find one say spring of next year...it won't be until mid June. With our plans to be out of the country for two weeks around the beginning of June. Is this bad planning...should fall be a better course of action to take? Contemplating replacing the forsythia with something like this...your saying 3'...the reason that the root ball would be more appropriate for the canopy? I had thought on having some goofy spectacles/glasses on a stake made for it. For quirkiness...I could maybe secure the tree if need be to said scrap art piece? (If I do decide to do such a thing) I had thought to plant one back by our waterfall...but...I am not seeing where this is juglone tolerant. So that can't be done. The only other place would be where the forsythia is located. Ken...the one you are telling me to do get is the one I posted about and is in the link you attached...not the one that bboy mentioned...correct?

Well, now I see that you have a symmetrical house. Symmetrical houses look better with more or less symmetrical plantings. I think you are on the right track to think about an evergreen plant for the corner of the house, but what about the other corner? The other issue I see is that the Crabapple is only 10 ft from the house, which suggests that you should make it part of the bed that you extend further out into the lawn, rather than thinking of it as a separate entity. With your limited space, you might want to consider yews for your evergreens. Yes, I know they are prosaic, but they are also workhorses for those of us in the North. Also they come in many shapes and sizes. I'm amazed that you are growing the Rhododendrons in your Zone e and I am curious as to exactly which cultivar they are. Your front yard looks disorganized because you have a lot of small disjointed Plants and Things. To correct this, you need to focus on a few larger specimen plants that would be focal points, and then fill in with lower growing plants and ground covers in front of them. For example if you include the Crabapple in your extended bed, you could plant low growing Ground Covers around it. These Ground Covers could extend into other parts of the bed as well, in the front og taller plants. Then you would have a more unified look.