Nice pics, but you create confusions here with using shortened genus and species names.
p.m could stand for Pinus mugo or for Pseudotsuga menziesii.

p.p. could stand for Pinus parviflora or for Picea pungens.

I know what you mean here, but I can imagine that some of us don't know which names you're trying to tell us.

Please show us these pics again with the full names for more clearity...
Thanks!

I am one that doesn't always know what the genus is. I do on some of these, but... :) I can make them out as long as the first name is listed with just the initial on the second one. For instance I really like that Dandy Doug, but wasn't sure what the rest of it is. Guessing Picea m.

Lots of people just read, which is evident here lately when a couple different people admitted they have been reading here for a couple years and finally posted. So it is helpful for those out there when they like something to have a little more info to search for the plants.

I appreciate your posting your great photos though. Really enjoyed them, some really great plants.
Cher

Hi Cher,

Dandy Doug is a Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii. The cultivar name is the give-away. More specifically, it's Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca 'Dandy Doug.' It's one of Jerry Morris' Rocky Mountain brooms.

~Dave

Thanks Dave. I know it's natural to some of you but it's not to everyone. If I just searched Dandy Doug, imagine what all would come up under that! LOL I wouldn't have thought about the Doug part being a Doug Fir and am not sure I remember reading that before, but will remember your telling me that.

I really enjoy all the photos everyone posts since I will never have the room for them and it's nice to see them in gardens rather than the photos nurseries post for sale.
Cher

WOW!

Nicely played Jim. Very few part-timers so readily give in to Edwin's beckoning. You're a good sport.

btw, yours are some gorgeous, well-maintained specimens. I especially like your 'Adcock's Dwarf.' Did it naturally turn out so nice or have you nipped the candles to get it so perfect?

~Dave

Wonderful plants Jim. Yours are the very picture of what is possible with some careful snips hree and there and a great choice of select miniature/dwarf conifers. I hope to see your place in person someday.

Thanks for sharing and keep the photos coming.

-Will

I managed to guess all the puzzles right... : )

Do I get a cookie?

Great pics, from a nice low angle. Do you have a tilt screen on your camera or were you Photographus humano 'Prostrata'?

Also I like the little shelterlings under the 'Hedgehog', what are they?

Beautiful photography. Choice-looking plants.

Dax

NWConifer...Thank you for sharing all the beautiful photographs of your conifers. I too am getting anxious to get out into my gardens.

My favorite plants you posted are Cedrus libani 'Hedgehog', Pinus parviflora 'Goldilocks' and Pinus parviflora 'Adcock's Dwarf' (wish I could grow these). Not sure why I always like the things I can not grow.

Thank you for sharing and for adding the full names. I hope you get out into your gardens real soon.

Not sure why I always like the things I can not grow.

===>> my theory.. is because they look exotic to your native eye ...

thx for the pix.. where are you in the NW ...

the best Goldilocks i have ever seen.. and a prime chief jo ...

any chance at an overview pic???

and i like the metal tags.. i thought i was the only one who used them ...

ken

Dave, amusing story on the Adcock's actually. That was one of my early puchases and at the time I was taken with pines, the more miniature the better. Well I moved it a couple of times, which it did not like and it just looked awful. We jokingly called it 'Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree', and I threatened to take it out and toss it many times. Usually I do alot of candle pruning, but that one was so weak looking I just let it go. Low and behold mother nature did her thing and a couple of years ago it started to really fill in and turned out to develop a great shape on it's own.

Severnside, No tilt screen on camera, just sit on my backside at a fair distance with a long lens. Unfortunately I think my prostrata days are past me ;) The plants under the Hedgehog are a sedum groundcover.

Will, your welcome anytime. I hope I can come visit your awesome garden sometime in the future also.

Ken, I live in Microsoft's backyard on the eastside of Seattle, and no... you are not alone!

Thanks for all the comments, It's great to share pictures and information with others who share the same passions. (and don't look at me like I am crazy!) I gather much inspiration from looking at all your gardens.

Jim

Jim, that gives me hope for the future. My Adcock's dwarf is only a few years old and is looking really scrappy. I'll just let it ride and wait for it to grow up a bit.

~Dave

Your P.m 'Dandy Doug' and mine bear a remarkable similarity in form. I thought mine was an oddball for it's upright character but maybe not so.

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Yes, thanks for going through the extra effort for newbies like me. They're all great looking plants, but that Pinus parviflora 'Adcock's Dwarf' is really cool.

Beautiful! Such a treat to see these.

Great plants and wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Please note that if you want to be accurate, Pinus parviflora 'Goldilocks' should be 'Goldylocks.'

Bill

Great photos! And wonderful contrast in texture and color among your plants.

Bill - how is it 'Goldylocks' instead of 'Goldilocks'? (I'm about to label my specimens so want to get it right). Buchholz, Stanley, Conifer Lover (an Iseli guy) etc all use 'Goldilocks'. Thanks for your help.

Sara

Yes, thanks for showing us these well cared for cultivars.

The leaner, top photo, any thoughts for a support or a re-dig and re-set for level?

Dave

Billy Schwartz brought the first scions into the States and named it, deliberately mispelling it with a "y". The three sources you mention got it wrong. They have a few others wrong as well.

Bob

sorry to add even more confusion about this particular parviflora, but it's been discussed a bit that this cultivar should actually be called Pinus parviflora 'Tenesu Kazu' the original Japanese name. I've updated my tags and database and getting used to the spelling and change in nomenclature.

~Dave

I renamed mine 'Tenysu-kasu. True cultivar name.

kasu lower case.

Dave

Dave (dcsteg) is right here, it's 'Tenysu-kasu'.

Pinus mugo 'Edsal Woods' isn't correct either.
In the first place it's 'Edsal Wood', second it's a Pinus densiflora x Pinus mugo cultivar.
The true name is Pinus mugo (x) 'Edsal Wood'.

Yikes! Glad I asked...I think! Thanks both Bob and Dave...I have a feeling that I am going to keep calling it Goldilocks (and since I am speaking it the spelling won't matter) but I'll tag it 'Tenysu-kasu'.
Sara

I was aware of the 'Tenysu-kasu' naming but haven't changed my tag because 1) the ACS database still uses 'Goldylocks' (yes, a little lazy on my part) and 2) I also have a Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost' that I thought was indigenous to the Far East and have never seen an original name for. Is there another name for 'Golden Ghost' and how or who is willing to step up and update the ACS database?

Bill

"and how or who is willing to step up and update the ACS database?"

That's a very difficult question you're asking here...

Dave, good call on that uncinata, I knew something about that bugged me, but it has a curved trunk so I did not realize it was not level. Going back and looking at it now I see I will have to make an adjustment.

Thanks to everyone for the name corrections, I will update my database. I am curious, what programs, methods do others use for there databases? I understand the importance, and wonder if there is a better method than the Excel spreadsheet I use?

Jim, superb pruning practices on these specimens. As Dave mentioned your Pinus parviflora 'Adcock's Dwarf' and the gold one that has 50 damn names is so perfect.

It would be quite a treat if you can post overall images. That is where the art comes into play.

Enjoying these once again, and particularly the Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Idaho Gem'. Nice!