Nice! Dig up that P. omorika Nana as soon as you can. That one starts to take off after a few years in the ground. Mine ended up 4' wide in under 10 years.

I’ve planned on digging up the 2 nanas for the last 3 winters but I’m just too darn lazy plus I’m always concerned about replanting but I know your right

too darn lazy ?? what about the Hollywood story ?

it's amazing what we do for our gardens

franky boy is wild ,,, wats it ?

ron

Well it was almost dying digging the Hollywoods that taught me I'm not in my 20's anymore.... This being said I do need to get them into a more appropriate place. I purchased the Thuja Franky Boy from a local w/s nursery I deal with but honestly after reading some of the posts on this thread I'm not sure any really know what the name of the plant is anymore. But gun to head, I'd say it is a Thuja unless another can educate me.

Chamaecyparis Bartons

Arborvitea Teddy Bear

Thuja Yellow Ribbon

Cryptomeria Yoshino in middle, Cryptomeria Radicans on each side and Gold Threads

Gold Cone Juniper (about 7 feet now)

Fire Chief Arborvitae

Cryptomeria Sekan Sugi (easily 15' tall now) in middle and Picea Globosa on right, yellow ribbons on left

Pseudotsuga menziesii. This tree was a lot smaller 40 years ago when I first moved here from Seattle. The Jeep is my kid's. He left it there when he was 21. He's 56 now.

Few more

Black bamboo I put into a planter I made from a shipping crate

Cryptomeria sekkan sugi after several yrs

Metasequoia ogon

Pinus Stobus Pendula

Deodora cedrus

Taxodium Pete Minaret

Boulevard Cypress

Hershey White Pine

Cryptomeria araucarioides

Chamaecyparis Chirimen

But wait there’s more

Mugo Pine and grey owl juniper

Deodora Cedrus Aurea

Hinoki Fernspray Golden replanted a couple yrs ago and not looking great

Confucius Hinoki Cypress

Hinoki Cypress standard, Gold Cone Juniper and Tamukeyama Jap Maple

Thuja Golden Globe

Chamaecyparis Fernspray

Picea Fat Albert, Picea Baby Blue, Hollywood Juniper with Zelkova Ogon

Norway Spruce
Picea Acrocona

Wow! Beautiful trees! Very nice!

Great stuff! Thanks!

I love this thread.

You guys have been at it for awhile!

How old and wide is that Ogon?

Great stuff, I enjoy these threads as well.

Here's a few of my garden from this season.

Picea omorika 'Kamenz' and friends

Pinus parviflora 'Kinpo'

The cure for cold climate withdrawals (overwintered not outdoors)

-Ryan

Beautiful tree's Ryan! Thanks for sharing. Is that a Giant Sequoia Pendula in a pot? It looks very healthy. In fact all your tree's look healthy.

Ogon is 15-18 ft tall and 6 ft wide.

Bought as a 7 gallon pot and been in the ground 4 yrs this fall

Thanks Stu. Good eye, I've got a 'Pendulum' (pictured on right), 'Blauer Eichzwerg' (left), and probably my favorite Sequoia that I have 'Barabits Requiem':

Not sure how long I'll be able to keep them in containers. My plan is to root prune and re-pot every few years.

Do you grow any Sequoiadendron Stu?

Thanks Ryan, How long have you had your Weeping Giant Sequoia?

I've had a Weeping giant Sequoia for 4 years but it's lost most of its branches last year. Maybe not enough sun or drought caused it. I heard they don't do well on the east coast.

I may try another one in a pot where it can get full sun or maybe somewhere else in the yard if it survives.

Ryan, I'm always glad to see you post! You and your brothers trees, photos and gardens are exceptionally well done!
Al

Stu, I've had the Pendulum for 2 years, and my others are new from this spring. Your plant has definitely seen better days. Maybe you'll have better luck the next time around. I am aware that these can have fungal issues in hot/humid climates.

Thanks Al, likewise!

So many inspiring pics here, I had a great perennial garden before the conifer bug bit, I’ve been slowly integrating conifers, here are some of mine

Gruene Kugel

One of my three Fire Fly

Skylands

Mother lode

Cedrus deodara Feelin blue

Pinus strobus Sea Urchin

Pungens Montgomery

Omorika Kamenz

Trio of Green Arrow

Abies pendula

Farrukh

jedijoe1 - How many years have you had Peve Minaret? Also, how big was it at start?

Ryan awesome as usual ,,,nicely done ! farrukh

ron

Matt, I’ve had the peve for about 4 yrs. it was in a 3 g pot and probably 3 ft talk when I planted. It’s really taken off over the last couple of yrs.

Gorgeous tree's Farrukh!

Updated Photo's showing new growth: Some plants I haven't posted yet

Picea Orientalis Nutans

Joe Kozey

Snow Sprite is not a dwarf. It's tripled in size since I planted it 4 years ago.

Picea Glauca Pendula

Silver Mist

Picea Orientalis Silver Seedling

Beni Otake

Ryusen

Cascade Falls Bald Cypress

Golden Atas Cedar

Green Arrow, Picea Farnsburg at bottom

Tri-Color Beech tree

Classic Picea Abies Pendula

Cobra, Picea Abies? on standard

Goldilocks Pine, Pungens Procombens

Picea Orientalis Tom Thumb

Filips Golden Tears

Pinus Strobus Pendula

Beni Hime, Sharps Pygmy, Shaina

Awesome! Going to have to bulldoze the house soon!

Fireglow

Picea Aurea Magnifica

Weeping Alaskan Cedar planted in 2014 which I think will outgrow it's location eventually. I might just pull it out and replace it with something else. What do you think?

Crimson Queen

Green Star Umbrella Pine. This is my 2nd one. The 1st one died from having so many broken branches during a snowstorm. If you grow this tree outdoors I recommend protecting it from snow. The branches on this variety are very delicate and break easily.

The blues

Fernspray Gold

Montgomery Spruce on Standard, Weeping Norway Spruce,

Fukai Pine, Ruby Tear Drops, Baby Blue Eyes left

Orientalis Sunrise? Orientalis Mount Vernon, Picea Big Wave

Love it!!!

Pungens Pendula

Higasayama

shirasawanum aureum

Mikazuki

Picea Mariana Doumettii

That's it for now.

Stu these are fantastic.

Lot of awesomeness, thanks Stu

Stuartlawrence, that's a lotta trees! How large is your property?

Here's a Lawson Cypress called Oregon Blue in my garden.

just some shots of one bed in front

ron

Thanks Ron. In the last picture, is that a Larix 'Wolterdingen'? I like those. Keep up the good work.

"Stuartlawrence, that's a lotta trees! How large is your property?"

Mike, about a half an acre.

ryan , yup,,,what wonderful texture it creates

ron

the tablet lens doesn't capture it

Stuart, 10 acres.

A Chamaecyparis lawsoniana found as a volunteer.Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Ogon'.Metasequoia glyptostroboides species.Douglas Fir on the left and Thuja plicata I

planted in the late 80s. The dog is my

neighbor's who came over for a visit.

Love this thread!!! :)

From today.

Crape Myrtle in full bloom

killer photos of awesome trees!

You can see my Filips Golden Tears put on more growth since I last posted this tree. It put on upwards of 2 ft of growth this year. I'm not sure why the new growth is not yellow. It gets full sun. Anyone else grow this tree and can share photos?

This is the same tree when I first bought it October 2015. I was told this was Filip's Golden Tears but does it look like it? What else could it be?

Stuart, it looks like 'Filip's Golden Tears' to me. There is also 'Filip's Tearful' and it's not gold. These were both seedlings from a cross of 'Dik's Weeping' and 'Stewartii' by Edwin Smits. I think you have the correct plant.

Aureospicata orientalis on right.

Goldilocks

Larger oak in woodlands area.The pine in the center/right is a tri-trunked Vanderwolf pyramidal pine. A deer snapped the main trunk down to the ground (dont ask me? :), but luckily three branches also happened to be coming out right at ground level. (replace ground with mound, all my conifers get planted on large mounds). 4 years later and looking good. Somewhere on here is a pic of right after the deer snapped it.

close up of Vanderwolf

Note dead leaders on P. Abies. What do you recommend for for borers that get into leaders and work their way down? Thanks!

Yep, that’s a Rottenhausi alright. One helluva soecimen, dont you think? :) P. Pungens Bakeri to right and a mint truffle to right(need to move but reaaaalllly dont want to). Little guy below is P. Pungens Thume.

Ill try to get a pic of “conifer island” this winter/spring. Do these look like happy conifers or what?

P. Pungens Baby Blue. I have a major, major problem with groundcover weeds hence my pizza box experiment. For all practical purposes, my entire property is woodlands. If you know what those little lily pad(bottom left of tree and all the dead ones from roundup) weeds are, let me know, they choke out everything. Looking for solutions. Until two years again I did nothing. Then i realized my smaller conifers were getting completely enveloped with vegetation. I also have various other larger types vines with leaves as well.

P. Abies Skylands probably planted in the shadiest spot anyone on here has tried to plant a skylands in. This is in front of my front fence but before the street. When I bought the place in 2012 it was a 30’x80’x25’ rectangular prism of honeysuckle. I cut out all but the largest 15or so. Then cleaned up everything below 6’ so I could walk freely. Most everything above that (which made a 85-90% canopy coverage) stayed, Over the years Ive realized it is a lot of work to keep trimming, honeysuckle grows like crazy, even with the bottom 6’ of branches removed. Their are also a lot of tall trees just south of this in my front yard so this skylands could definately use more sun. In the ground for 4 years(when I cleared the honeysuckle out). Volunteer Ohio Buckeye on right. There are 2 other volunteer buckeyes in this area.

This was my best conifer deal. It is an Iseli Thuja DeGroots spire regular about 130 or so on clearance for $5. It was of the “weirder the better club” when I got it 4 years ago. Ive seen a lot of DeGroots, but none even close to as skinny as this. It has filled in nicely over 4 years. Thuja Forever goldy to right, Volunteer buckeye to left.

Canadian hemlock on left, thuja altrovirens? on right. they are way too close.

I have conifers planted everywhere. After 5 years of fast and furious planting, I am ok with not planting. Though I will be planting about 30 trees this fall (just 10 conifers as long as I dont stop into Oakland Park late late Nov/Early Dec when Iselis are half off).

Fat Albert in middle. This one took 3 years to get a leader. Back rightish area is P. Strobus Stowes Pillar. Need to move Thuja forever goldy.

Reverting dwarf albert spruce on left. If you remember a thread where I thought I may have a P. Pungens Baby Blue Pendula, by the next year it was back to normal. It is in upper left (behind spruce on standard). Ive been pruning back the oaks near it but it still doesnt get as much sun as it should. Doing pretty well so far.

A deer snapped the leader/top off this p. abies a few years ago. Its difficult to tell, it has recovered quickly and nicely. This one is a conifer island in winter/spring, behind it is the lowest elevation/where vernal pool finally dries up in aug/sometimes sept.Taken yesterday, in 3.5 months house will be here. Dirt(clay) removed to build up mounds.

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Its kind of hard to see but there is a Canadian hemlock in lower/center/right. I originally bought about 8, $5 Canadian hemlocks. Every single one except for this got eaten by something. It was something small (probably rabbits) because I could see they had been nibbled. This a poor spot for conifers as they are close to the center a vernal pool (behind maple). The need to plant more conifers, despite having no good spots for them is why they are here. In back left is P. Pungens and down and to right of it is p strobus that got snapped by a deer a couple years ago. New leader in action. These 3 on their mounds (also have some on other side of water further back in pic) will be conifer islands for weeks, even months straight this winter/spring.

Closeup of the poor p strobus I planted in the swamp.

Here is the p. pungens.

Forever goldy on left (I have a lot of them), Canadian hemlock in middle (same as earlier pic), P. Pungens Bakeri on fight.

Fat Albert. I will be doing some major pruning. I already have.