A correction, the first plant is Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Seattle Mountain'.

It happens.

My problems are water based. We had a fairly wet winter and a ridiculously wet run of things this spring. I have a couple fella's I'd move now if I felt I could extract them from the mud and muck w/o causing more damage.

Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Top Point'.

Will...nobody can grow them. Very unstable and poised to croak at any time.

I grew one for 3 years. The last year it was the best looking thing going in my garden. Come next spring it was dead. Throw that one in the trash can and move on.

Beautiful Pinus parviflora 'Hagaromo', or it once was I am growing that one with no issues.

Probably water issues. Does your soil drain off water effectually. Just a guess. Dig them up and do a close inspection.

Pour a bucket of water in the hole and see how fast it drains off...also do a close root inspection for any issues.

Dave

Any idea what is wrong with my mother's fir? It's like this all over, except the very top. Location is Western New York. It's been an unusually cold and wet spring. My apologies in advance if it is painfully obvious - I've searched online for similar looking conditions without any luck.
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Pinus contorta "Chief Joseph"

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^^^ Oh NO, praying you don't lose that mature CJ Clement, is it still in with a chance of survival?

Very sad losses for all of you.

I could show you pictures of my two Japanese maples that died this winter, but this is a conifers forum. I keep hoping, foolishly, that maybe there is some life left in them, so haven't dug them out of the ground as yet.

I know this is supposed to be a photo gallery, but I already removed my two conifers that died this winter so have no pictures of them - a very nice looking fir, Abies lasiocarpa 'Glauca compacta' and a Picea abies 'Clanbrassiliana stricta' (Tolleymore spruce.) Probably neither cultivar is considered rare or choice by the folks here, but I was thrilled to find them at a local nursery last year and very disappointed that neither of them made it through their first winter in my garden. :-(

Holly

I think my Chamaecyparis pisifera 'White Pygmy' is on it's way out. The bottom ring of needles are brown and the remaining tips are a little droopy. I just planted it last fall so I'm not sure if it's because white tissue plants take longer to establish or if I killed it somehow. The other 5 conifers I planted at the same time are doing fine. How do I know if it's a goner or not?

It's first winter, hopefully it'll pull through, was stunning last fall. Buds are expanding but with no green needles to feed it, I hope it has enough stored energy to put out some green.

Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost'
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I have a problem with my 4 ft Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Top Point'. I got it from Greers 2 yrs ago, looks now close to a skeleton, will give it another month to show new growth. It does not have a girdling root, I checked, and I sprayed it last year against insects, does not seem to have scale. Last summer it had a huge crop of cones.

My 1 yr old, 1 ft tall, Abies koreana 'CIS' got all upper foliage yellow, has still some green lowers. I will wait into June before making a decision. As dcsteg Dave says, Abies koreana in zone 5 is only marginally hardy. Though my A.k. 'Green Carpet' is doing fine. We must have had a very cold winter compared to past years. I.e. my large magnolia only has a few flowers, all through the area only the lower branches of forsythia have flowers. My 'CIS' was in a chicken wire cage filled loosely with bark chips. Most of the winter it was covered with 2 ft snow. : (

Bernd

"...As dcsteg Dave says, Abies koreana in zone 5 is only marginally hardy..."

I think Dave was referring to the heat of his zone 5. My 'Cis' has seen -20F (-29C) without issue (although I don't recall the snow depth that year).

tj

I've had no luck after several attempts to get any Abies koreana to survive in my mid-Oklahoma zone 7, except one or two that only see 1-2 hours of dappled sun a day. Everything else the curls unfold and then they brown up in the heat.

tj, possibly I had a night of -25 F last winter, I am in the Northern part of zone 5. The branches are flexible, but as others wrote, conifers show slowly when they are dead.
Bernd

Pinus ponderosa 'Dusty Blue'. Wonderful, huge, blue-grey needles normally, my poor little specimen probably tired of our Spring water deluge as well. Hopeful for a comeback but we'll call it cautious optimism.
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I have searched but I can't find a post about digging the hole and adding or not adding amendments to the backfill. I believe it has been said here to not amend the soil which I don't plan on doing.
My question is how much bigger than the root ball is the best size for a BB Black hills spruce?
Sorry if this is redundant but I could not find anything in a search.
Thank You
Anita

seriously anita... what in the world does that have to do with the price of tea in china and this post..

start your own post... or find one of the 2000 posts about properly planting trees ... which conifers are ...

where is brandon and his link .. maybe hanging out in the tree forum ...

ken