Oh Man, too sad... What a luck, that a few has been successfully propagated! Sometimes it is that close to save a rare finding... Just as my yellow- white variegated Norway Spruce... First found in 2010 as a over 120 yrs old forestry plant at an old iron mine, and no opportunity to graft, so i tried the found twigs as cuttings- no success. Moved 2011 to the place where i found the motherplant, no fallen twigs that winter. Then in 2012 a new try and two out of three graftings proceed. In 2013 some cat or marten stumbled trough my bed of propagatings- one of the two broken of... Again no fitting twigs fallen of the tree in winter 2013/14, and then, in the late fall of 2014, they cut the whole part of forest down, including the variegated motherplant. Rescue grafts in october doesn't succeed either... So this very single little grafting from a second class side twig (the, on an old tree, weeping ones) is the only chance of this mega- rare mutation. 120 Years of existence, and less than four tiny years decides it all... Just as in your 'Elko Run', whose motherplant surely was 40- 60 Years in age either, wasn't it? I hope Edwin's specimen thrived and you can get one back some day :)! Regards, Andreas

Jan, looking back to your first pics of this topic, I see that most of the Picea abies witches' brooms are having another colour than the tree they're hanging in. Their colour is more blue-ish instead of green, I've seen this before at other brooms of this species as well. Do you know why this is? I hope you're not going to tell me that they're blue-ish to make it much easier on you to find them :0)

Hi Jan, Here is a question: When you register a cultivar name like "Sumperk", where the "S" doesn't include the Czech accent symbol which signifies a pronunciation as "Sh", would the rest of the world register it as "Shumperk" ?

Hi Vlado, sorry my antispam destroy your adress. Contact me, please, again. Thank you. /Pis cesky, or use simple english. Thank you./ As to witches. Two years ago Iôv found witch with many cones on pinus strobus. My friend Radek was climbing on it. Witchôs broom is down. Radekôs wife Iva with future Pinus strobus Slahol. Iôv planted about hundred seeds and during one year I obtain this seedlings... Three was normal, stay in pots... and only one is.., I mean perfect dwarf..., I plant it... Mostly all the seeds from witchôs brooms are sterile, but sometimes... This spring we founded picea abies with too many cones, Picea abieas Sisak, in Czech language Siska = Cone Jan wbgarden Here is a link that might be useful: Dwarf conifers hunt.