“PNW or west coast people excluded. Only central and east coasters share you experience please.”

What if someone has previously lived in the targeted region and had direct experience with L. k., but now lives in Seattle? Could they reply?

You know what I mean. I don't want anyone who grew this plant in the PNW to tell me their experiences on it because anything and everything supposedly grows well there. And hot and humid summers also don't exist there

It does fine for me in mid TN.

When I lived in CT I'd see it fairly often, and sometimes it would naturalize.

i have no problem with them in my MI .... i have quite a few variations on the theme ...

being deciduous .... no winter issues with tissue damage ...

i seem to recall some summer browning until fully established ....

larix can grow like a weed in my area ... not sure they could be kept potted long term ... unless you were growing a mini or dwarf .....

as to pendula .... i have some vague recollection of them being mixed up in the trade .... but i recall no issue between L. k. and whatever the other was ... L. decidua or some such.. being lazy this morn .... meaning: regardless of the name.. they grow the same ... crikey.. that rhymed .. lol ...

have you checked the asc site???

ken

I'm surprised it does well in TN. Thats pretty south.

Ken, but MI is more north than me and its cooler up there. But good to know it either ways. I've checked on the website so many times but doesn't really have the answer I'm looking for.

Are there no L. k. to be found in your part of New Jersey? If this post does not give you the information you want, another approach might be to find where they grow naturally and what the climate is like. It’s more work than having someone in New Jersey and southward provide you with their experience, but more gratifying overall.

Mine does fine, but I'm not really hot here in west MD. It's 14 yrs old -- pic shown was taken some yrs ago -- quite a bit bigger now:

I have never seen a larix kaempferi in new jersey. I do know that they grow near the peak of mt. Fuji in Japan as I saw a whole forest of them 2 years ago when I went there. And that mt fuji peak area is zone 4 so you can tell it's real cold there.

Thanks bengz. Hm that's interesting. Do your summer temperatures go over 90 degrees often? Frequent heat waves? We had at least 7 heat waves this past summer including a 101 degree the one day in July.

They must grow there as the NJ Department of Environmental Protection sells them (or did as of the last date of publication) for reforestation projects.

Heruga, here in the mountains in a rural area, it hardly gets above 90F unless there is a long dry spell. Summer morning lows are usually in the low-mid 60s.

I have 'Paper Lanterns' and 'Grey Pearl' in central NJ and both have been performing well. I've ordered a few others over the years which seem to have been dead on arrival. Not sure what that means, but not apparently a response to our warm and humid summers.

Only complaint with my 'Grey Pearl' is that it's on a 10 inch standard which looked cool at first. Now that it's growing into a larger (but still dwarf) plant it just looks silly. Paper Lanterns is growing like gangbusters for me.

Maple Grove, how long have you had paper lanterns for? Because apparently some do ok for a couple years then just all of a sudden die. I've heard people saying they had it growing very well for 5 years then suddenly one year they just died on them. I am looking for a reliable,long term plant that don't act like this. Paper lanterns is the exact cultivar I was looking to get.