No it's a private house,and the first branch are up 2 m. hight.I have see other strange Picea pungens var. glauca, but not always possible to stop for made photo. Here it's 13h and I look for heat. Clément

Glaciers_end, Thank you so much for the info. and your knowledge of "Roter Austrieb"; from the way it was described by coniferjoy, I thought or had strongly hoped this might be a dwarf of Picea abies "Cruenta", I'm with you about wasting that kind of space for one tree. But from what you are telling me; it's another large, which I avoid for our home garden here in West Seattle. I have been admiring "Cruenta" for years; it takes everything from me to walk away every time I lay eyes on it, even with most dwarf in my collection --- if it exceeds a 18 ft high or 8 feet wide I bonsai it in a large pot (very large pot sometimes). I do appreciate your knowledge and heads up. Haven't been able to find much information on it (Roter Austrieb) but love the characteristics too much; worst comes to worst, I'll take it down to our 498 acres ranch in Monmouth, OR (30 minutes out of Salem). Like you; I normally wait around for at least 10 years for new species out of country to hit US growers, and another 5 years for it to hit the market place. Unless I get a buddy to quarantine and clear customs for me from oversea (haha); I've only done that a few times with a close friend that's was the CFO of DeBeers, another conifer and gardening nut for the rare and unusual. My godfather in England was a secondary that I use to request for certain plants; but he is of an age that I don't make these request anymore, so I'll wait like everyone else. It would have been easier if I had the time to heavily collect conifers; when I was working for Mitsubishi in Pulp&Paper/Log&Lumber business for 12 years, I guest I can still go back to some of them -- if I really got to have something (generous friends, old colleagues, and clients). But that industry kept me from even putting conifers in my yard back in those days; to many peoples jobs domestically and globally, it's hard when on occasion you actually fly over to inspect some of the fields of conifer being cut (in Canada, US, New Zealand, Australia, etc.). I did go on a management retreat at for a week to a famous nursery and bonsai (highly regarded place) for executives to learn the art of bonsai; Mitsubishi sent me on, but I was not allowed even to have one in my office. Hopefully this explains a little of my lateness to the party of conifer addiction and collecting --also a few other things that I don't want or can mention here. Got the bug in my late 30's; now being 50 years old, I don't hesitate to pull the trigger most time for specimen size on some things -- keeps the economy going and people in jobs. It's more my husband when it comes to pulling the trigger for specimens than me thou, he wants to see and touch them in our own sanctuary (in our life time) --- because it's part of our home office he proclaims whenever I hesitate on something. My husband also teases me that I want to reverse the "Greenhouse effect" all by myself; I tell him there are lots of people like me, this forum confirms that to me and him. Connections and contacts in almost 30 years of international trades and international finance; makes my passion of gardening or other hobbies gives me a little more advantages to others if I really want to take advantage of that, but I don't. I also would like to apologize to you of earlier correspondences regarding the upcoming Sept. 2016 Regional Conifer Tour that you are hosting. It's just that I get enough out of the blue cold calls for everything. Bill Hibler knows that he has my permission to give you my contact information. If you read some earlier comments on thread "Conifer Addicts" after I posted a few pictures of my garden - also might explain my reaction towards you following your request. Cheers,

I finally made the "cone collection" trip yesterday and should be able to extract a sufficient amount of seed even with a low yield from the 149 cones collected. Johnny

Mmm, let's see, Picea torano aka Picea polita, but this Tigertail Spruce is not to be confused with Picea bicolor 'Howells' Dwarf Tigertail aka Picea alcoquiana 'Howell's Dwarf. Wait, what? Anyhow, yours looks very healthy on that sloped site. I've been waiting for an extra blue selection of P. meyeri to hit the market, but nothing so far.