Albers Vista Gardens is a garden to the west of Seattle, Washington, containg a diverse variety of collectible and rare specimen plants. I have the privilege of working in this garden, and I was taking some pictures for the new garden website (posted at the end of this message), and I decided to share this exciting collection of conifers with you!!

Abies alba 'Pyramidalis' [{{gwi:682374}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2291.jpg) Abies alba 'Columnaris' (possibly the same as 'Pyramidalis') [{{gwi:682375}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2262.jpg) Abies amabilis 'Compacta' [{{gwi:682382}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2174.jpg) Abies balsamea 'Nana' [{{gwi:682388}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2254.jpg) Abies balsamea 'Old Ridge' (waiting for the white growth to start pushing. needs some shade to protect from burning) [{{gwi:682392}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2197.jpg) Abies cephalonica 'Meyer's Dwarf' [{{gwi:682394}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2194.jpg) Abies cilicica [{{gwi:682395}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2188.jpg) Abies fargesii 'Heafort' [{{gwi:682401}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2166.jpg) Abies fraseri 'Blue Bonnet' [{{gwi:612025}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2216.jpg) Abies grandis 'Van Dedem's Dwarf' [{{gwi:682403}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2246.jpg) Abies koreana 'Aurea' [{{gwi:682405}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2253.jpg) Abies koreana 'Gelbbunt' (beautiful male flowers) [{{gwi:671253}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2154.jpg) Abies lasiocarpa 'Duflon' (tiny plant at least 5 years old) [{{gwi:682406}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2150.jpg) Abies magnifica 'Mt. Si' (pen for size) [{{gwi:682407}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2155.jpg) Abies nebrodensis 'Sicilian Gold' (a very prized tree) [{{gwi:682411}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2201.jpg) close\-up of the beautiful gold\-tipped foliage [{{gwi:613391}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2204.jpg) Abies nordmanniana 'Golden Spreader' (still need to remove the understock from this one) [{{gwi:682413}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2200.jpg) Abies numidica 'Drath' or 'Selection Drath' [{{gwi:682414}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2295.jpg) Abies pindrow (very long needles on this fir) [{{gwi:682419}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2183.jpg) [{{gwi:682423}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2184.jpg) Abies pinsapo 'Glauca' [{{gwi:615611}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2179.jpg) Abies pinsapo 'Tuarek' [{{gwi:682430}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2151.jpg) Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe' [{{gwi:682433}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2243.jpg) Abies procera 'Robenek' [{{gwi:682434}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2211.jpg) Abies recurvata var. ernestii [{{gwi:682439}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2206.jpg) [{{gwi:682443}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2207.jpg) Abies sibirica 'Liptovsky Hradok' [{{gwi:682444}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2160.jpg) Abies veitchii 'Heddergott' [{{gwi:617743}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2168.jpg) Abies veitchii 'Rumburk' [{{gwi:682445}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2210.jpg) Abies x borisii\-regis 'J.K. Greece' (A. alba x A. cephalonica) [{{gwi:682447}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2156.jpg) Athrotaxis x laxifolia (A. cupressoides x A. selaginoides) [{{gwi:682449}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2231.jpg) Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' (an old stand\-by) [{{gwi:682451}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2255.jpg) Cedrus deodara 'Bush's Electra' [{{gwi:612600}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2220.jpg) [{{gwi:612601}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2221.jpg) Cedrus deodara 'Cream Puff' [{{gwi:682455}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2185.jpg) Cedrus deodara 'Hibernal' [{{gwi:612598}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_0998.jpg) Cedrus deodara 'Prostrate Beauty' [{{gwi:682459}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2189.jpg) Cedrus libani 'Green Prince' [{{gwi:682462}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2251.jpg) [{{gwi:682465}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2158.jpg) Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata' [{{gwi:682467}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2192.jpg) Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Baldwin Variegated' [{{gwi:682469}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2199.jpg) Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Moonlight Lace' [{{gwi:682472}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2212.jpg) Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Saffron Spray' [{{gwi:682475}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2236.jpg) [{{gwi:682478}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2235.jpg) Cryptomeria japonica 'Araucarioides' [{{gwi:678619}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2176.jpg) Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon' [{{gwi:666744}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2288.jpg) Cupressus abramsiana ssp. opleri [{{gwi:682482}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2157.jpg) Cupressus arizonica 'Blue Ice' [{{gwi:682485}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2275.jpg) Cupressus duclouxiana [{{gwi:682488}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2180.jpg) Cupressus macrocarpa 'Fine Gold' [{{gwi:682491}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2186.jpg) Cupressus macrocarpa 'Saligna Aurea' [{{gwi:682494}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2285.jpg) [{{gwi:682497}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2284.jpg) Fitzroya cupressoides [{{gwi:613405}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2191.jpg) Juniperus chinensis [{{gwi:682501}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2276.jpg) Juniperus rigida [{{gwi:682503}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2230.jpg) Larix gmelinii 'Dortmund' [{{gwi:682506}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2152.jpg) Larix kaempferi 'Diana' [{{gwi:682509}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2232.jpg) Larix kaempferi 'Paper Lanterns' [{{gwi:682511}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2170.jpg) Larix laricina 'Blue Sparkler' [{{gwi:682513}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2227.jpg) some young cones showing [{{gwi:682515}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2228.jpg) Larix laricina 'Newport Beauty' [{{gwi:682517}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2215.jpg) Phyllocladus alpinus [{{gwi:613383}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2258.jpg) [{{gwi:678934}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2259.jpg) Picea abies 'Brno' (yes, those are all buds!) [{{gwi:673897}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2241.jpg) Picea abies 'Gold Drift' (suffered some burning in the full sun, but it should make a full recovery in its new, more shady location) [{{gwi:682521}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2205.jpg) Picea abies 'Pusch' [{{gwi:682523}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2242.jpg) Picea abies 'Tufty' [{{gwi:682525}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2214.jpg) Picea breweriana 'Emerald Midget' [{{gwi:682527}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2213.jpg) Picea engelmannii 'Bush's Lace' (largest specimen I've ever seen) [{{gwi:682529}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2229.jpg) Picea glehnii 'Chitosemaru' [{{gwi:682530}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2240.jpg) Picea glauca 'Goldilocks' [{{gwi:682531}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2159.jpg) Picea glauca 'Palecek' (means small thumb in Czech) [{{gwi:599435}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2208.jpg) Picea glauca 'Pixie Dust' [{{gwi:599434}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2292.jpg) Picea jezoensis 'Howell's Dwarf' [{{gwi:682533}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2165.jpg) Picea mariana 'Blue Teardrop' [{{gwi:682535}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2153.jpg) Picea smithiana 'Ballarat' [{{gwi:682537}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2169.jpg) Pinus aristata 'Silver Heels' (new from Finchams this year) [{{gwi:661831}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2218.jpg) Pinus banksiana 'Chippewa' [{{gwi:682539}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2161.jpg) Pinus cembra 'Stricta' [{{gwi:682541}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2162.jpg) Pinus contorta var. latifolia 'Chief Joseph' (just starting to come out of the bright gold color) [{{gwi:682542}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2182.jpg) [{{gwi:682544}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2181.jpg) Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost' [{{gwi:682546}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2263.jpg) [{{gwi:682547}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2264.jpg) Pinus heldreichii var. leucodermis 'Smidtii' or 'Smidt' [{{gwi:682548}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2247.jpg) Pinus longaeva 'Sherwood Compact' [{{gwi:661830}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2172.jpg) Pinus mugo 'Amber Gold' [{{gwi:682549}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2250.jpg) Pinus mugo 'Carsten's Wintergold' [{{gwi:682550}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2248.jpg) Pinus parviflora 'Aoi' [{{gwi:599873}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2175.jpg) Pinus parviflora 'Blue Angel' [{{gwi:599876}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2178.jpg) Pinus parviflora 'Ogon' [{{gwi:599877}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2222.jpg) Pinus parviflora 'Ogon Janome' [{{gwi:599878}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2187.jpg) Pinus parviflora 'Tanima no Yuki' (means valley of the snow in Japanese, probably named such because of its white needles) [{{gwi:682551}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2196.jpg) love the pink candles on this one [{{gwi:599879}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2195.jpg) Pinus peuce 'Aureovariegata' [{{gwi:682552}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_0732.jpg) [{{gwi:682553}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_0733.jpg) Pinus pinea 'Montreaux' [{{gwi:682554}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2217.jpg) Pinus pumila 'Blue Dwarf' some small red male flowers are showing near the top [{{gwi:671254}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2223.jpg) my attempt at a close\-up [{{gwi:682555}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2224.jpg) Pinus strobiformis 'Loma Linda' [{{gwi:682556}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2173.jpg) Pinus strobus 'Horsford' or 'Horsford's Dwarf' [{{gwi:682557}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2225.jpg) Pinus sylvestris 'Pixie' [{{gwi:682558}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2289.jpg) Pinus thunbergii 'Thunderhead' [{{gwi:611846}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2249.jpg) Pinus uncinata 'Jezek' [{{gwi:611035}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2219.jpg) Pinus wallichiana 'Nana' [{{gwi:682559}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2297.jpg) Pseudolarix amabilis (not much to look at right now, but it's a big tree, anyway) [{{gwi:682560}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2260.jpg) Sciadopitys verticillata 'Sternschnuppe' (name means shooting star in German. this cultivar was apparently derived from irradiated seed in Germany. needles grow together in groups of two) [{{gwi:682561}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2193.jpg) Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Blauer Eichzwerg' [{{gwi:682562}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2171.jpg) Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls' [{{gwi:613387}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2233.jpg) Taxus baccata 'Standishii' [{{gwi:682563}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2209.jpg) Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Frost' [{{gwi:610171}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2294.jpg) Thuja occidentalis 'Teddy' [{{gwi:610172}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2273.jpg) Thuja plicata 'Cuprea' [{{gwi:610173}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2256.jpg) Thuja plicata 'Stoneham Gold' [{{gwi:610174}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2261.jpg) Thujopsis dolabrata 'Nana' [{{gwi:682566}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2296.jpg) Tsuga canadensis 'Betty Rose' (waiting for the white growth to start pushing) [{{gwi:682568}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2198.jpg) Tsuga canadensis 'Gentsch White' (largest specimen I've ever seen!) [{{gwi:682570}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2226.jpg) Tsuga diversifolia 'Gracilis' [{{gwi:682571}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2164.jpg) Tsuga dumosa (yunnanensis) (yellow male pollen cones) [{{gwi:682573}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2177.jpg) finally, the view from the garden: [{{gwi:682575}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view&current=IMG_2287.jpg) Hope you enjoyed! \-Sam Here is a link that might be useful: [Albers Vista Gardens](http://www.albersvistagardens.org)