Thank you very much for your kind words everyone! Just learning and applying stuff I read from the 'proffesionals' in here! Dave, it means a lot coming from you. You've got a perfect eye for this! Richard, thank you. There is a natural slope there. I couldn't change that even if I wanted to (though I don't). Thank you Josh! Edwin all the mistakes are noted! I have a great number of plants that came from you (and outside that bed) and they are perfect! My most rare and one of the most beautiful conifers I own is Picea engelmannii ssp mexicana 'Pervana' from you! perfect! Thank you Jay! I was lucky to own this property by the mountain so I could plan such garden. (and lucky I managed to finish the house before the crisis because things are somewhat tight right now...) Will, 1,5 year is not adequate to make safe statements about the climate but up to now it looks like your description is quite accurate. I had only two losses due to summer heat-drought. Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe' and Abies koreana 'Bonsai Blue'. everything else survived, some with some help... Funny is that I envy your setting underneath the mature Pseudotsuga. I just have no shade places for japanese maples... Thank you! Thank you Severnside, Cher and Tj! +oM, The setting is in southern, mainland Greece, at elevation of 2400 ft aproximately. Just below mountain Mainalo (with the biggest pure Abies cephalonica forest) as Josh noted. Thank you Dax! always enjoy your funny touch in your postings as well as the knowledge you offer! Thank you Mike! It's interesting to compare the true form of someone's with the imaginative form you get from the posts in here! That's why I uploaded this! Hope I'll be around in 30 years to gaze my garden as you do yours now! Kinda hope it looks like yours too... Thank you very much Ken! I actually have a rock-garden... The real deal! Funny, the other a day I was making a hole to plant Abies pinsapo 'Aurea' and as usualy I hit a rock (I've plant 90 conifers and I think only two times I dug without hitting rock underneath!) and then I made this comment, that I wish I could dig like they do in the U.S., with just a shovel, having in mind YOUR post of transplanting a conifer... hilarious! (about the female operatic singer!) Best regards, Fotis

Thanks Blue Yew, Jay, Ladylotus, and Cher! Severnside, I did not find a tag on the weeping one, but ran a search on their nice database, which includes google map locations for each plant. Voila, this plant is Taxus cuspidata 'Pendula'. Cutting from Holden Arboretum, Mentor, Ohio. Here is their Taxus list. Cephalotaxus fortunei Hook. Cephalotaxus harringtonia var. koreana (Nakai) Rehder Cephalotaxus harringtonia var. sinensis (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Rehder Cephalotaxus sinensis (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) H.L.Li Taxus L. Taxus baccata L. Taxus baccata 'Adpressa' Taxus baccata 'Amersfoort' Taxus baccata 'Melfard' Taxus baccata 'Repandens' Taxus baccata 'Silver Spire' Taxus canadensis Marshall Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc. Taxus cuspidata 'Aurescens' Taxus cuspidata 'Bright Gold' Taxus cuspidata 'Capitata' Taxus cuspidata 'Columnaris' Taxus cuspidata 'Densa' Taxus cuspidata 'Expansa' Taxus cuspidata 'Intermedia' Taxus cuspidata 'Klehm's Spreader' Taxus cuspidata 'Nana' Taxus cuspidata 'Pendula' Taxus cuspidata 'Prostrata' Taxus cuspidata 'Wilsonii' Taxus x hunnewelliana Rehder Taxus x hunnewelliana 'Richard Horsey' Taxus x media Rehder Taxus x media 'Anthony Wayne' Taxus x media 'Berg' Taxus x media 'Berryhill' Taxus x media 'Brevicata' Taxus x media 'Brownii' Taxus x media 'Brownii Globe' Taxus x media 'Dark Green Spreader' Taxus x media 'Densiformis' Taxus x media 'Erecta' Taxus x media 'Ershzam' Taxus x media 'Everlow' Taxus x media 'Farmen' Taxus x media 'Flemer' Taxus x media 'Green Wave' Taxus x media 'Halloriana' Taxus x media 'Hatfieldii' Taxus x media 'Henryi' Taxus x media 'Hicksii' Taxus x media 'Hinsdale Upright' Taxus x media 'Kelseyi' Taxus x media 'Maureen' Taxus x media 'Meyeri' Taxus x media 'Moon' Taxus x media 'Nigra' Taxus x media 'Pilaris' Taxus x media 'Pilaris Grandiflora' Taxus x media 'Robusta' Taxus x media 'Runyan' Taxus x media 'Sentinalis' Taxus x media 'Skalborg' Taxus x media 'Stovekenii' Taxus x media 'Stricta' Taxus x media 'Tauntonii' Taxus x media 'Thayerae' Taxus x media 'Timber Creek' Taxus x media 'Vermeulen' Taxus x media 'Viridis' Taxus x media 'Wardii' Taxus x media 'Wellesleyana' Taxus wallichiana Zucc. Taxus wallichiana var. chinensis (Pilg.) Florin A few more. Conifer landscape Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera' Cutting from Wm. T. Gotelli (received as Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Pendula') Pinus sylvestris 'Globosa Viridis' Pinus sylvestris 'Globosa Viridis' foliage Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls' Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls' Abies concolor 'Compacta' Picea jezoensis 'Landis' Picea abies 'Gregoryana Parsonii' Picea abies 'Gregoryana Parsonii' foliage

cannot speak to heat tolerant conifers sad to say but i thought i would speak up for the surprising adaptability of Mexican conifers (Mexican oaks as well) to seemingly very different climates and localities. i have had gratifying success growing a number of species (likely mostly from areas with a summer rainfall maximum) here in the summer cool and dry (winter very wet) pacific north west (oregon coast)---including pinus montizumae, p. patula, p. pseudostrobus, p. estevezii,, cupressus montana, c. guadalupensis, and podocarpus matudae---.wonderful trees that once established seem to do well with little or no additional care.

Yes, indeed nice. Is this yours? If so how did you come by it? Dave