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Sorry, PlantSnap isn’t getting it I don’t think.

It’s a floppy conifer.

Or if you don’t know, any other ideas for an attractive, not very dense conifer?

One that doesn’t get too enormous or something else evergreen. I have tree search blindness.

My mum has a conifer that colour with drooping branches, it's a Lawson cypress. It's very tall so
maybe not what you're looking for.

You can look up weeping conifer tree uk and it has quite a few pictures.
Camellias are evergreen but is dense. I have a tree rhododendron in my garden but it grows very slowly. Laurel is very tough and could be cut back when it gets too big, which it will quite quickly. I have prunus lusitanica which is very tough, so takes pruning, but dense.
I'm quite far north and these things are evergreen, if you are in the south other plants would be evergreen.

That one's not a cypress. It hasn't got the flattened leaves of a cypress, it's got needles. And the needles are in little bunches, so a pine or possibly a larch. If it's a larch it would lose its leaves in winter. Or something more obscure. It's not a spruce or a fir. @yamadori is our best tree expert.

That pic looks like a cedrus deodara to me. You don't really want one of those in your garden unless you have a lot of room, they get rather large.

Thanks, @yamadori, I always forget about cedar

@MereDintofPandiculation

(and yes, I have got one!)

My mother used to grow a deodar cedar, but was nervous of the Conservation Area (which came nearly to our house) being extended, so she'd grow it to the critical 3inch trunk, then remove it and buy another one.