your tree on your property??/

cool

ken

Damn perfect Dax.

Like being given a gift by grace itself.

WHOOH

ron

EDIT

I was so stunned by your pic at work , that I couldn't even type

I meant WHOA

Looks phytoplasmic.

Yes, I found it 3-4 years ago and it was 3" across then. I removed branches above to bring light to it. 'Yatsubusa' translates to many cones...

'Yatsubusa' has bright pink cones. This W.B. becomes covered in bright pink and very small cones, also. That's the reason I named it stunner. Those cones really surprise you.

It will be a great broom for growing W.B. seedlings since it produces cones like that annually. Plus, like 'Yatsubusa', it has blue foliage.

Most shoots grow 3/4" per year and the top buds can go 1". That's about 90-95% 3/4" annual growth and the other 5% being 1" per year. I attached my name to it thinking I'd never find anything like this again. My legacy within conifers so to speak....

Dax

That is truly a unique and spectacular parviflora!! It's a jaw dropper. You know I'm going to have to pester you for one of those W.B. seedling if you ever have extras someday. Got to add a little bit of Dax's legacy to live on in my garden ;-)

I've grafted it four times and gotten four takes. I didn't graft it three years ago and sent scionwood around that year. Then I grafted (2) two-years ago; and (2) this winter.

They look great until the end of summer and like most grafts that I meticulously care for... die. I'm always left with about 20% of takes. I have (1) from this year that's 1/2 brown and 1/2 blue. I'll see if it pushes growth next year.

Then of course I'll have to graft several-many of them another year. I'll be doing a few again this year.

Have your pecans for next-spring, Garen. :))))

Dax

Dax, it is sooo mini and tight!:) Very nice broom.

Ireena

It will be available in your neck of the woods, someday :)

Dax

I haven't seen any of the white pine group listed as affected by phytoplasma, but the hard pine group is. Seedlings from cones of mutational brooms will produce a 50/50 ratio of dwarf to normal. Seeds from phytoplasma brooms apparently do not have the bacteria, thus would produce normal seedlings

What a tight little gem you've got there, Dax, really super!!! The second photo looks like a textbook illustration showing "what is a broom". Best of luck with it, and I really look forward to grafting it someday. :^)

Wow, Jaw Dropper hits it :D!

I 've always dreamt of such a tiny parviflora broom which produces cones, and there it is. If it will be available in europe one far, far day?

Would be curious to about a pic with cones :D!

You have a winner there, Dax!

Mike

Well thank you all! I appreciate mother nature being "on my side" ;-). That's why I said thank you andreas. ahh I'm mildly cracking myself up now.

There are a bunch of folks that grafted it in Europe. At least eight. You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled. That was three years ago and repeat scions were sent in following years. We're still only talking a couple plants or one plant per person.

I should've taken photos with immature cones on it. There's one photo with cones that I know of but I lost it in the shuffle.

This is a graft of Edwin Smits in the Netherlands.

Vladimir Valenta graft, CZ. Rep. Dax's Stunner

Dax

Thanks very much, Dax :-)!

Edwin Smits, ok, very fine. I know someone from a german trees forum who is good friend with him- maybe over this way i can get one ^^...

The Pictures are very nice, very beautiful needles on that little Stunner *thumbs up*!

I for myself think, i get recently a dwarf broom on the leader of my little P. sylvestris 'Nisbeth Aurea'. But this is stuff for an own thread and time must tell next year ^^.

Andreas

Perfecto,

Dax