bernd, sorry I don't have any experience with this plant but I noticed your brought up that your Abies koreana croaked on you. Is it possible it died from the excessive amount of moisture from the spring thaw? I know Abies is very particular about its moisture levels.

Normaly spoken it can stand a very strong Winter, the species is native to Alaska.
The thing is the understock on which it is grafted, maybe that one isn't Winter hardy enough for your climat.
I don't know hich understock will be used in the U.S.
Here in the Netherlands we use Platycladus orientalis.

B.t.w. is 'Strict Weeper' instead of 'Strict Weeping'...

coniferjoy, thanks for your comment. About the name, the story goes that it was 'Strict Weeping' and it is still 'Strict Weeping'. That is the name as originally established and as being produced by Iseli. The 'Strict Weeper' was typed erroneously in some book.
Thanks!
Bernd

And also now Cupressus nootkatensis, not Chamaecyparis ;-)

Yes, should be hardy for you, unless you are in an area with very hot, humid summers, in which case fungal diseases could be a problem.

Resin

I had a B&B 8ft. one from Iseli. You can see it on the link provided. A beautiful specimen.

I knew it had issues as it dropped yellow foliage by the end of the first year. This went on for two years with never a sign of new growth. By the 3rd year it was not presentable anymore and I decided it had to go. When dug up the root ball showed no signs of new root growth. It just sat there and did nothing. Never figured that one out.

I now have a 'Van den Akker in the same spot and doing well. In fact I have two in my garden with absolutely no issues.

Good luck with yours,

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Cupressus nootkatensis 'Strict Weeping'

an otherwise healthy and established nootka should go way beyond your z5 bern .... that is not the issue ...

so the only issue is the health of what you got...

and if you PROPERLY plant, mulch and water it ... you should know the drill

i have NEVER had a problem with nootka ... but i start small ... i am surprised dave has.. but he starts big.. one can never know if a large one was dug with sufficient roots.. or if it is severely root bound ... and that interferes or destroys any attempt to get 'established' ...

so plant it firmly in your mind that it is zone appropriate .. you have other challenges ...

this is based on my experiences with van der, green arrow[?], 2 pendulas, the gold flecked and the white flecked

ken

ps: sheltering a large transplant from winter wind and sun until fully established is a valid thought ...

Resin, Thanks for stating with authority that it should be hardy in my area and zone. Summers are not too humid here. I am aware that Cupressus is now in the name, but I stated the other because Iseli and the American Conifer Society data base are still using it.

Dave, thanks for your comment. Your location seems to be more humid than mine in summer. My tree is in a large pot, second year in my area, looks great without any shedding. I hope it will behave better than yours did. Here it is in its pot. I remember the pictures of your 2 'Van den Akker', very nice, might try to get one of those again when my 3 footer does not grow, it must have lost 2/3 of its foliage last summer, but is green now.
Bernd

I have 8 nootka's in my zone 5 yard. Alive and kickin'...Van den/der Akker going on 6 years, I think...? big girl, she is my favorite.

YOU CAN DO IT..live to plant again another day lol

Google mentioned both, 'Strict Weeping' and 'Strict Weeper'.
Investigation says it's an Iseli introduction but this info isn't mentioned on their website.
The pic which is included doesn't show us a extremely narrow one, I hope that the plant in my Pinetum will not grow this wide...
It's to bad that this beautiful plant came under the wrong name to The Netherlands ('Strict Weeper')...

Here is a link that might be useful: Iseli info 'Strict Weeping'

Hi Edwin I've seen 'Strict Weeper' at Stanley and Sons Nursery in Boring OR and it was so narrow I didn't like it. It must have been 6-8 meters tall. It was essentially a flagpole, hardly any wider. And a long time ago the ACS showed a 'Strict Weeper' in an ACS members garden that I did like...... very narrow still. Larry's were just too narrow for (my) liking.

Best Regards,

Dax

Thanks again!
Thanks Ken and ademink, so your cultivars can also survive zone 5! Yesterday I forgot to mention that I have a 20ft C. nootk. 'Pendula' in a sheltered (behind those darn Green Giants of the neighbor) spot and doing very well.

I got only startled by the bad luck I had with 'Van den Akker' last summer. When the original 1 ft one died in May, nursery gave me credit towards a 3 ft one (THEY had a problem with it), but sent it in June after they were confident that one would make it. But then we had that week around 95 F. After 2 days at that heat I shaded it, but it lost 2/3 or so of its foliage. It is green now, will shade it again later, I like it.
Thanks coniferjoy!
Bernd

Dax, unfortunately Larry doesn't have this one on his full product list so I can still can't figger out if it's 'Strict Weeper' or 'Strict Weeping'.
Which cultivar name is at the ACS Database?

Edwin I found the photo I was thinking of and it was 'Van Den Akker'.

The correct name is 'Strict Weeping'. 'Strict Weeper' doesn't jive right or sound right to me. Proof also from Iseli & the ACS Database.

Dax

Yes, mine is doing fantastic! there is a pic somewhere...lemme see....

ahh yes..there's the supermodel...eat a burger, girl...

Dax, thanks for making this clear, 'Strict Weeping' it is ;0)
Here's a pic of a 'Strict Weeping' in a Dutch Conifer Society member's garden.
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So...it is narrower than Van den Akker?

But 'Strict Weeping' will have those shoots which come off at odd angles, that's why I would rather have 'Van den Akker'.

Iseli catalog :
"Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Strict Weeping'.
Weeping Zone 5 Large Green
The foliage on this tall, extremely narrow Weeping Alaskan Cedar boasts an uncommonly pendulous habit. The draping foliage hangs down, clasped tightly against the upright trunk, like arms. Mature trees develop fascinating character, almost personalities, with secondary sub-leaders that reach out and create a close-knit cluster of trunks and gracefully arching side branches.
Narrower than 'Jubilee', it makes a striking focal point or an intriguing informal grouping."
Bernd

I love it b/c you can put them in your yard when you're "out of room". Gonna probably have to git myself one of these now. lol

I haev a weeping alaska cedar that I planted amost 2 years ago. It was about 10ft tall when planted and came as a bare root tree wrapped in burlap. It looked gorgeous through this spring but I now notice a lot of yellowing and dropping of the needles - and not just those on the toward the trunk of the tree, which research is telling me is a normal process every 2 - 3 years. Tonight I noticed yellow all the way out to the tip on one of the bottom branches. When we planted it we ere told to cut away at, but not remove, the burlap bag. Deos this sound normal, or is it perhaps just now showing signs of stress from being root bound? We had an unusally cool, wet, long spring, then suddenly into the high 80's last week.

Thanks for any info.

JJ you should start a new thread. You will not get nearly as many responses if you tack it on another one. :)

Wow, that is one skinny rocket.

Now THAT would be an interesting tree to grow!

Mike

Fabulous! I love it.

About hardiness: No injuries the time I have had this plant - and it was only 20 cm when I reived it in an envelope. It is on own roots. It is difficult to compare climates as the winters at my place are long på seldom colder than - 15 C. The summers are relatively cold - with 15-16 C as the average temperature in the hottest month. 2000 mm precipitation.

That 2011 picture I had posted showed that beautiful 'Strict Weeping'. The main trunk has died. Now 5 years later the little then 2 1/2 ft parallel 'trunk', seen in the left of that 2011 picture, has become 5 ft and is healthy and bushier. It comes out of the stub of the dead 'Strict Weeping' trunk at soil level. So that might be root stock, But since I planted it at a corner of the house in the back, I simply let it grow. It looks nice, but not that towering 'Strict Weeping' I had bought.

In the front of my house I have a 30 ft healthy Cupressus nootkatensis 'Pendula', so these type trees can live in my yard successfully.

I still have a Cupressus nootkatensis 'Van den Akker', but it stalled at about 5 1/2 ft and is healthy. I had problems with 'Van den Akker', with the first one the nursery telling me they had a production problem. So I hope for the future, it should grow 1 ft a year. This one is healthy, seems to like its place and neighbors, and I leave it there.

I know this thread is old but it’s closest to the information I am looking for. Olav has Strict Weeping that looks like Van Den Akker. I am trying to find which will be narrowest without random limbs that need to be lopped. between these two which do you guys recommend?