You won't be able to stop until every inch of your yard has been planted. Lack of space will make you stop :-)

Um... not necessarily true... (:o) I have many more conifers in pots than I could ever plant in my yard. I am going to start planting at my parents home and maybe see if some of my friends will let me plant in their yards, also.

It is a (good) sickness and there is no hope of recovery. Trust me. There is always something cooler, newer, and/or more interesting than the conifers that you already own/have. The only way to keep from buying is to only take the amount of money you will need for food, etc. during the day. No money or credit cards or checks should be carried with you if you will be passing nurseries.
Good luck (and if you find a cure, please let me in on the secret.) (:o)
Mike
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Great plant, BTW. I wouldn't have been able to pass that up either.
Mike

You can of course buy another property with a much larger garden/yard to accommodate your ever growing collection :o)

I've been realizing that as my (bluegrass) lawn costs me more and more to water and maintain ... that I'll probably start to convert it over to trees anyways ... I've run out of run in the mulched areas already.

"Lack of space will make you stop :-)"

And then you learn bonsai, I guess.

My house plant addiction is turning into a tree/conifer/outdoor plant addiction. I'm scared.

Cute tree, BTW. I like these (and other weeping cypress-like things). Someone in Bowling Green has a postiviely huge weeping cypress of some kind (Don't think it's what you have, though) in their yard that I saw when I was, uh, bored and walking through various neighborhoods one night.

My address:--)))

(Please See ACS Address Book) !

That was hilarious Mike. I've experienced that! lol

Dax

$4.00 a gal. petro with gas guzzler car, uncooperative wife and no job can also cut this addiction to the quick.

I hope none of these unfortunate circumstances come your way and you continue to enjoy what you are doing with your addiction.

Last time I counted I had over 250 cultivars and space is getting a little tight. I am now in a very selective mode as to what I really need.....At least I think I am. Ha...what am I thinking. Tomorrow is another day and I will probably stop by my conifer collector friends hang out, run across something really cool he just got in and guess what....

Dave

By the way, I know that conifers generally don't work as house plants, but are there any that can be kept in containers outside with root and... plant pruning? Treelover3 mentions that they have a bunch of trees in pots.

Dave - $4.00 a gallon! aren't you lucky, we're paying equivalent $12.00 per gallon here in the UK.

$12.00 per gallon here would shut down this country and change our way of life completely.

The big oil companies inability to refine gasoline and drill for oil are driving prices up. This policy was implemented in the mid 90's and it has worked well for them.

We all are aware of what's going on, but that's another story.

Dave

I did it again....yet another purchase today....Picea Pungens Glauca Globosa

Not keen on the droopy thing but I love that blue Spruce!

What droopy things that, then Larry ?

I can not count how many times I have bought my last tree or shrub. Join the club!

Err i dunno bluespruce. Let me see there's 2 pics,one of them is a spruce so...

Must be the Green droopy thing in the first pic then Larry, am I right ?

Spot on,how did you work it out. Must be psychic ;)

That Nootka Cypress is OK!! It has a straight stem, what more could you want! At least it isn't one of those grotesque things that'll only grow sort of vaguely semi-upwards if it is tied to a stick, and flop around on the floor if not . . .

Resin

Here is a link that might be useful: Wild Nootka Cypresses also weep!

I see Larry's back.... I'll get my eyemuffs on.

Dax

Don't worry Dax i aint stopping. Only popped in to see if there are any pics of real trees posted here. Oh for a decent tree forum...

I guess the sooner you find one the better ?

Resin, which one of those grotesque things are you referring to, or is there more than one ?

"Resin, which one of those grotesque things are you referring to, or is there more than one ?"

All the various weeping cultivars where the leader doesn't grow upwards, so that it needs staking to gain any height. Things like this one.

Resin

Good to here from you greenlarry.

'Your quote: "Don't worry Dax i aint stopping. Only popped in to see if there are any pics of real trees posted here. Oh for a decent tree forum"...

"i aint stoppin"...4 posts to this same thread

"Only popped in to see if there are any pics of real trees posted here... All trees are real unless you grow plastic"...

"Oh for a decent tree forum"... Define what a decent tree forum is?...Maybe you know something we don't. Something tells me you need to fit in somewhere. You remind me of the guy that cut off his leg because his toe hurt. I happen to think this is one of the best tree forums going. Amateurs and professionals from all over the world interact to exchange their knowledge and we all profit from it. Posting photos for input regarding many topics is an added plus.

Come back when you can appreciate what every one else likes to grow instead of what you think is acceptable. Or just hang around an learn something

Better yet what are you growing of interest? Show me some real trees. Just kidding...I know your a species guy so don't bore me with a aerial shot of 10,000 acres of spruce trees.

Dave

Resin, a weeping blue atlas is at its best when deliberately trained and pruned, anything but straight, so its branches can cascade down like a fountain, nothing grotesque about that, infact a thing of beauty, it's a shame you have no taste.

Oooh! I love that Nootka Cypress! Is that a "Green Arrow"??

I have two 'Glauca Globosa' and you will love it!

Regards,

K4

"Resin, which one of those grotesque things are you referring to, or is there more than one ?"
All the various weeping cultivars where the leader doesn't grow upwards, so that it needs staking to gain any height. Things like this one.

Resin

Please see post under Blue Atlas Cedar in the gallery . I meant to post it here but wasn't thinking too clearly this morning. BC.....before coffee. :-)

I have slowed down, but not stopped acquiring trees after 30 years.
Here's a Xanthocyparis nootkatensis in my garden collected from the wild in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. I think they look elegant.
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I have seen the largest one in the world in the Olympic Mts. near the Three Lakes trail. It is 52 meters tall with a trunk diameter of 2 meters.

I guess this could qualify for one of those grotesque things that'll only grow sort of vaguely semi-upwards if it is tied to a stick, and flop around on the floor if not . . .

I could never get anything to grow in this hot south facing nook. This conifer can grow to 30 ft. at maturity if given free range. I have managed to control growth by size and depth of hole it is planted in. Sort of semi-bonsai with growth 2-4 in. a year. This I can live with along with occasional selective pruning to keep growth under control.

Any way it works when nothing else would tolerate these conditions. A zone 6 conifer that plays off the heat of the concrete and brick to avoid freeze out. In it's 7th year in this location. A thing of beauty that is an interesting conservation piece.

Yes Resin you certainly are entitled to your opinions as it should be. If we all had the same interests then we would all be looking for decent tree forum like greenlarry is.

Dave Cedrus deodra 'Raywood's Contorted'
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OK Dave, now I HAVE to get one of those!! Darn you! LOL

Dredawg, I'm posting some pics of my spruces, including my 'Globosas'

Cheers!

K4

No, this is Green Arrow:
It has branches weeping right from the trunk, not just weeping foliage.

And yes, you can put conifers in pots. For how long? I don't know yet.

Abies pinsapo Glauca:

Picea morrisonicola:

And where will collecting ultimately take you? Maybe here (name this if you can):

KarinL

Floppy trees need love too :(

"Abies pinsapo Glauca"
Looks more like Broccoli to me ;-)

"And where will collecting ultimately take you? Maybe here (name this if you can):"
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides. Too easy with the image name tag!!

"Floppy trees need love too"
:-))
Bluespruce can love them, and I'll stick with natural ones!

Resin

Aah...we have fun don't we.

Wonder who's going to have the last word.

Dave

Resin, no problem, at least 'natural trees' is a step up from 'real trees' :o)

Karin,

I don't really know how to say this, but I think I'm starting to fall in love here...with your plants that is!! :-D

OK, you're all fueling my OCD!! I got started on Japanese Maples in the spring and bought almost 100 different varieties THIS YEAR! So stop posting cool conifer pics!! I'll want to buy them ALL!

:-0

K4

"The British love an insult, its their only test of a man's sincerity."
~Ben Franklin to John Adams

Would those of you from the UK agree with this?

Hey K4 if necessary I can provide some aversion therapy; I can post pictures of the many that have succumbed under my care... they aren't pretty (anymore)!

Resin: well where the heck do you plant YOUR broccoli?? I do what I can with the space I have :-)

KarinL

karin, Resin has nowhere to plant his broccoli :o)

Can't grow it anyway up in these frigid subarctic wastes ;-)

Resin

I am the same way - I recently purchased a Horstmann's Silver Korean Fir and also a Thunderhead Pine, not to mention a couple of graceful Chamaecyparis Obtusa 'Gracilis'. Also I have a NS which is I think an Acracona variant as it has produced a miriad of red and purple cones.
I am hoping to replace a "Golden Rain" conifer (purchased from an arborietum) which was destroyed by deer - but I cannot recall its correct name.

Well when i say a proper forum i'm not being derogatory to the good people on here,its just that well i post on a lot of forums from all subjects,and GW works really different to what i call a forum-not as bad as yahoo groups tho! Also GW is primarily for gardeners something i don't really enjoy. I love plants but not gardening. And of course most of the trees on here are the garden kind,bred to be as small as possible,to fit in a space. Nothing wrong with that of course but I like to see BIG trees growing in the wild or arboreta etc. I'd love to show you what I grow but all I have is a lowly goldcrest,i just don't have the space or,at the moment,the time. So i see my trees online but find it hard to believe there is not one tree forum out there! If i had the time and money I'd make my own and you'd all be welcome to join and share your sylvian experiences. But as it is all I have is GW with its ads surveys and hangups. Luckily I use my phone a lot and so don't see any ads. It just tends to hang up on me.

Well, perhaps you need to take a look at the UBC Botanical Garden forums. They have whole sections devoted to specific species. And its a very international group, I might add.

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/index.php

Regards,

K4

Yea,i'm a member of that immense forum too,but i find it very err quiet on there!

I'm on the Maples forum, and its pretty active. Have not tried others, though...

K4

greenlarry...try this one. Everything from soup to nuts.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Tree world

Why thank you Dave! But err,soup? ;)

Yesterdays mail order shipment...should establish themselves nicely here in Atlanta before our 2 months of winter...LOL...LOL...January & February

Rheingold Arborvitae:

"Walnut Glen" Spruce:

Gold Globe Arborvitae: