Fascinating series of photos. Thank you very much. Are these now (widely) available as cultivars in the US?
Richard

Jesus!
Nate, there must something in the air in Teton Valley. Nice greeny dinos! Are they all found by Jerry Morris and Joe Stupka?

I found also a blue dino this spring, but I guess the children would be afraid of it...

Picea pungens ÂMPH StegosaurusÂ
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Photo author me

Zsolt

Hi Zsolt,
Like your atmospheric picture with the trees against the slightly ominous sky!
Is this a cultivar that you are now propagating?
Richard

What a look into the past.

Dax

Note: the above photos are courtesy of Jerry Morris.

Richard, I'm not sure, but I believe at least some of these are available in the US. Maybe others can chime in.

Zsolt, that's a nice Stego! As I understand, Dennis was the first to find 'Teton Tower', and later Jerry found the others.

Over the course of multiple trips to this site, Jerry watered, fertilized, and root pruned 'Last Find' to increase vigor.
Eventually he was able to transplant it to where it is today.

Picea pungens 'Last Find' - the tree
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Grafted March '09.

Wow, that's great - seeing the huge specimen forms found in the wild. I've seen NONE of these for sale - anywhere - and I've searched high and low for a couple of years now.

Neat stuff, thanks for sharing again.

-Will

Thanks for posting these Nate. Please stop by sometime soon! Scott

Spacebud,
Named, but just for an interesting vision. Not propagated yet. I send you scions, if you like strange works of the nature.
Zsolt

Jerry Morris pines

Pinus ponderosa

King Cone
La Boca
Lil Toe
Marcia
Margarette
Marguerite 2003 Jerry Morris USA
2003 Denver Botanic Gardens CO USA
Morris WB
Penny
Pondy
S. Find 2004 Jerry Morris USA
2004 Denver Botanic Gardens CO USA
Sld. W.B. Nr 2
Stan Broom #1
Strybing Nana
Sugar Creek
Tasha 2003 Jerry Morris USA
2003 Denver Botanic Gardens CO USA
The Sphinx
Trumbell
Unnamed Cultivar 2003 Jerry Morris USA wild found
2003 Denver Botanic Gardens CO USA
Van Bibber 1993 Jerry Morris USA wild collected
1993 Denver Botanic Gardens CO USA
Vernon Larry Stanley in ACS Bulletin
WB Mosier Loop
Wrap Around
Yedauwoo

Pinus strobiformis Engelm. 1848
Coronado 2001 Chub Harper in ACS database
2004 Jerry Morris USA
2004 Denver Botanic Gardens USA
Densata 2001 Chub Harper in ACS database
Loma Linda 1999 Jerry Morris USA
1999 Denver Botanic Gardens USA
Mary Sweeny
Strobi 2005 Jerry Morris USA
2005 Denver Botanic Gardens USA

Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus 1753 - Scotch pine

Los Verdes 2004 Jerry Morris USA
2004 Denver Botanic Gardens USA

Zsolt

A few dwarfs. All photos courtesy of Jerry Morris.

Pinus aristata 'Geneva'

Pinus aristata 'Geneva' (another one)

Pinus aristata 'Fairplay'

Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Lonely'

Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Vail'

Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Eagle River'

Pseudotsuga menziesii
Seed from Red Hill #5, under light continuously (24/365) during 1990-91

Pseudotsuga menziesii
Seed from Red Hill #5, under light continuously (24/365) during 1990-91, 9 growth flushes

Pseudotsuga menziesii
9 years old

Pseudotsuga menziesii
9 years old

Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Pretty Doug'
Wild seedling, #50 seedling under #20 Douglas Fir

Nate
Thanks for posting this. Teton Tower was found on a return trip from the west coast in July 1991. It was the wrong time to collect wood at that time. I gave Jerry Morris the location and asked if he could collect some wood in the winter of 1992 for me. He called me in Jan. 92 to let me know that he found Teton Tower but that there was 2 other weeping forms that he also found. Big Goose & Long Neck. Later that year he returned to find many more. I beleive that totals to 15 at this time.
Richard, They are not widely available in the states yet. A collection of wood was sent to another nursery but the names got a mixed up so that was droped.
Nate, maybe you and Jerry need to return for some new pictures this fall and a collection of these this winter.
Will, I hope that we can help you find some of these.
Jerry and I beleive that these may have happened as a result of seed from a broom many years ago. Some of these trees have a 10/12 inch diameter trunk on them and quite old.
Dennis

Welcome Dennis -

Dax

Dennis,
Thanks for this additional information. I am interested in making the trip to visit those trees and collect scion.
Good to see you here!
Nate

A few more, photos courtesy of Jerry Morris

Pinus ponderosa 'Margaret'
Dwarf tree, named after Rich Eyre's mother

Juniperus monosperma 'Ute'

Juniperus communis, upright selection

Two Juniperus hybrid plants growing in the Crazy Mountains.
The plant on the right side is growing in a circular shape.

Pinus flexilis broom

Pinus flexilis 'Damfino' and Picea pungens 'Parker'

Pinus monophylla 'Whoopy'
broom is almost as large as the tree!

Compact Juniper

Picea pungens 'Dove'
Jerry acquired it around 1984 when it was 19 yrs old.

Juniperus ostesperma, unusual form

Juniperus osteosperma, unusual form

This is a very interesting topic!
I like the wild collected special plants very much.
It's to bad that only some of these Picea pungens weeping forms are in the trade...
Nate, I hope you will go there this comming Winter and try to collect some wood for propagation, they're worth it!!!