regnum-plantae:

customer: About 2 months ago I bought a standard weeping juniper, it’s going all brown, what’s happening?

me: do you have a photo? no? ok *starts asking questions and listing all the reasons why a juniper could suddenly go brown*

customer: I don’t know, you should really come see it

me, half a step in their garden: that’s not a juniper, it’s a perfectly healthy larch…Larix decidua…it’s deciduous….and it’s autumn… 

customer, looking at the name tag still on the plant: oh

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This is what a Larix decidua, Pinaceae looks like right now. Being a deciduous conifer, it first goes through some dramatic colour changes and then sheds its needles, which grow back a bright green the following spring.