walnut glen is a sickly straw color.. i was sure my one gal babe was on the verge of death for years .... now that it has more size .... its a nice unique color ... WGnot is a plant that was sold to a vendor .. in bulk ... that ended up not being WG ... i dont recall that it has any other choice attributes other than the name.. is it gee's??? .. why do i know this story .... research the growth rates on those that interest you ... and start small ... a one gal .. one foot plant.. that grows one foot per year... isnt going to over whelm your 5 acres anytime soon .. [dont you have that much property ...] .. i can picture the house ] .. in the next 20 years ... by which time.. you probably wont have to worry about it being some big ugly monster ... montgomery is a PLAIN old blue spruce ... nice spring color.. dulls out pretty fast .. otherwise OK ... procumbens ='s prostrata ='s pendula .... DOESNT IT??? i wouldnt buy more than one of any of them.. until i actually saw a difference in person in an arb .... just go to girards .. link below ... and order 4 or 8 one gals.. one spruce [p.pungens sunshine].. one pine gold ghost.. one juniper a yellow one... one abies kor aurea .. one concolor a blue one [crushed needles small like grapefruit] .... one thuja .. yellow ribbons or some such ... is that eight ... and a liquidamber variegated... blow your socks off DO IT TODAY ... and you will have them by next week .... you will be happy ... and you will not be driving yourself crazy trying to pick the perfect bunch ... any you are not thrilled with in 3 years .. i will pay you back for ... though it is your job to research zone tolerances .... JUST DO IT .. i've seen your house.. lol .. you can afford this ... it will bring you double the pleasure within weeks ... ken PS: girards should be behind you zone wise.. so the shipping SHOULD still be safe ... i have no vested interest in G's.. just good peeps.. who send good stock ... Here is a link that might be useful: link

Hi Dave, Here in the Netherlands we have the Juniperus hor. 'Golden Carpet', in The U.S. there's the 'Mother Lode'. Most time of the year these are the same when it comes to their colour,only the new growth of the 'Mother Lode' is a lemon yellow while it's a golden yellow on the 'Golden Carpet'. No doubt your's is the 'Mother Lode'. Specialy for you I just cut some branches of the 'Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Plumosa Juniperoides'(l) and the 'Squarrosa Aurea'(r) for comparison: A little while ago I found out via this forum that the 3 golden forms of Pinus parviflora are the same one. -'Dr. Landis Gold' -'Goldylocks' (often wrongly spelled as 'Goldilocks') -'Tenysu-kazu' It was the late Dr. Henry Landis who received this one from Japan under the name 'Tenyzu-kasu'. Later on John and Dave Verkade took over the collection from Henry including the 'Tenysu-kazu'. A Japanese friend of them translated the 'Tenysu-kazu' into English and the cultivar name 'Goldylocks' was born... As always the first name given to this plant must be used which is Tenysu-kazu anf thats why I mentioned this to you to rename your 'Goldylocks' into 'Tenysu-kazu'. I hope it's clear to you now and that I helped you with this info :0) Thanks in advance for your upcomming pics!

medio [middle] variegated tulip tree.. which is not a tulip ... i am blanking on the proper name ... gosh is google fast .... Liriodendron tulipifera 'Medio Variegated' ... which is probably an improper name... lol ... without the need to argue about propriety .. is there a better name????? ken Here is a link that might be useful: tulip .. smulip ...

Thanks everyone! I think I have my answer then-- I only want one of these guys, to soften the corner of our brick rancher and eventually cover most of our gas meter. Ken, if memory serves (which it doesn't always but what the hey), I think you gave me the idea originally to try a group of 3 smaller columnars in different colors... I already have the green (Degroot's), one of these BA's will hopefully do well enough to serve as my blue, and for the yellow I'm thinking a Gold Cone Juniper? I'd happily hear other suggestions though. And I'm good with keeping an eye out for second leaders; I'd be doing that regardless. So minus the possibility of weather damage, it seems like a fairly low-risk plan. And my winters, while getting rougher the past few years for sure, can't be anywhere near as extreme as yours Ken! I'll post some pics once I have all three settled in; might be a while still though. Thanks again guys!! Nicole