Here's our young Weeping Alaskan Blue Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Glauca Pendula'), a native species. This weeping-plumes occur not merely with such cultivars as 'Glauca Pendula.' but also naturally in the wild. This habit is adaptive, so that it can grow in places with heavy snowfall without losing its branches.

When it snows on our garden, most of the trees get their limbs weighted down, but this Alaskan cedar pokes up straight as an arrow with hardly a bit of snow clinging to its slippery needles & limbs. Another variety called 'Green Arrow' holds its limbs even closer to the trunk; but ours does have some outstretching branches near the bottom.