Dave, What a beautiful garden! Ours looked much the same this morning. We started using conifers in the garden because of winter interest then became hooked. It's a pretty healthy addiction. Jay

Great pics! Where's Mr. Tumnus?

Nice garden Dave! It looks like it grew a lot last season.

We even got a little snow here with temps at my house down to 15 degrees F. (-9.4 C) that's cold for here.

I've been taking some pictures of the garden during the winter. Some of them even have snow!
Mike....aka phildert on Webshots

Here is a link that might be useful: Winter pictures of the garden

Nice shots.

Mike, I tried to set a few of your images as my desktop background.....but I ain't a member!
What a bummer!

We only got a dusting of snow today. A few minutes up the road, folks got over a foot of snow,
and thousands are without power all throughout Nevada County.

Josh

Snow? Its like spring here!

Larry, it was snowing this day:

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Dax

I'll send the pics Josh as soon as I get time. :-)

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Thanks, Mike ;-)

Josh

Gloomy Day Photos:

Pinus rigida 'Winter Time'
temp bed with dappled light all day... should brighten up quite a bit when planted out into the landscape:
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Pinus rigida 'Winter Time'
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Pinus strobus 'Keokuk Koner'
Tip-shoot graft (more aggressive) will graft the slower-growth in the future:
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Pinus parviflora 'Tenysu-kazu'
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Cedrus deodara 'Bush's Electra' - only one or two dead branches. Planted last Fall (should've been planted at Spring) and a zone7 tree I believe. It'll be waxed by this summer! Who am I to kid myself?
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Man you are still hammered with snow Mirek. I can't believe it. Looks super cool man.

Dax

Awesome shots!

Josh

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Nice garden Mirek!
Is that a 'Gloria Polonica' in the center of your last pic?

Superb, Fantastic.

Dax

Wow, in some areas you can actually see the dwarf conifers when it is winter. In my yard in upstate NY anything shorter than 2-3 ft is completely covered with snow. After one day of rain I can see now one ft of 4 ft tall conifers. But in one month the snow will all be gone, but then spring is here.

To me it looks like having dwarf conifers for winter interest is useless, because you can not see them for 3 months. I can not see the yellow color of 'Carstens Wintergold', a real bummer.
Bernd

Bernd, it's 'Carstens' instead of 'Carstens Wintergold'.
You couldn''t know it, I told it just a 100 times before...

Edwin, yes, it is 'Gloria Polonica'.

Sorry, Edwin, yes it is Pinus mugo 'Carstens', that's how I list it in my spreadsheet. But to put my point across of not seeing that yellow Wintergold, I thought I had to mention that wrong name. We have a good snow cover this year, perhaps some mouse activity - I don't hope, but the plain white view is terrible.
Bernd

Great garden, Mirek,

What is that old cutted tree?

Thanks

Wolfgang

berndnyz5,

Just so you don't forget what this one looks like.

This should hold you till yours reappears.

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Not old :) Only 40 years.
(Larix kaempferi.
He was too big

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Ah, thanks mirek,

Skuril.

I like such skuril plants between normal ones.

Wolfgang

Dave, thanks, you are showing me the future. I got mine in 2009 from Coenosium, did not branch yet into a ball like yours, but showed some yellow in December.
Bernd

Great looking Mirec! I'm just starting this year and hope to someday have just a portion of what you have!

Just a few natives hanging around, can't wait to get what many of you have!

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Okey, let me take you on a tour...so what conifers do we have here. On the left back you see some Pseudotsuga mensiesii. But they are under the snow. Next, I am afraid also under the snow, you see a T heterophylla. In front on the right there are some Picea abies but unforunately they are covered by some snow.
The lefthand side consists of P. omorika, P. sitchensis. P. x Lutzii, P. breweriana, P. glauca, A.alba, A grandis. Pinus unknown (got some seeds of it), L. decidua. P. orientalis and P. abies. They are there, but they are under some snow...Unfortunate for our viewers, but be assured: they love it!

Hi Jorge, I think this pic isn't from last week ;0)

No, this we had a snowcover from 24 november to 31 december. after that it was gone and winter has been very mild in the new year. But this was supposed to be a winter garden photo. Well: it is winter..but you may ask: is it also a garden?

Jorge, in my area whe had the same Winter circumstances as you had.
To much snow on your pic and I believed you if you mentioned that this is your small garden ;0)
A couple of days ago I sent you an email to your email address from last year, did you receive it or do you have another one?
Please, if you have another email address, write my an email and I'll write to you again, thanks.

Everything has melted now and bulbs are starting to peak up through the mulch but we had a very wet, sticky snow 2 weeks ago.

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You have hired a good yard detective.

A must when heavy snow abounds and there is nothing for those critters to eat on but your plants.

Dave