For next year they have 'Calvary' available in #3s or #20s (the #20s must be gigantic plants). Haven't seen that it is officially added to their product line yet. Newer material that they have added for next year are: Spruces: Picea pungens 'Golden Feathers' (got three of these in 4-5' size), Picea pungens 'Hermann Naue', Picea pungens 'Millbrook', Picea abies 'Gold Drift', Picea glauca 'Keji', Picea abies 'Blaze' (I think this is a smaller, fuller seedling of 'Rubra-Spicata' that has the same brilliant red new growth) Pines: Pinus strobus 'Stowe Pillar', Pinus strobus 'Mohr', Pinus bungeana 'Morris Arb. Witches Broom #46' Arborvitae: Thuja occidentalis 'Kunau', Thuja occidentalis 'Linwood #4', Thuja occidentalis 'Riverside #2' Several of them I can't find much info on. They also have a couple newer plants they are introducing but haven't given a proper name yet- one is a witch's broom from a Picea omorika 'Bruns' and the other is a seedling of the hybrid selection Picea x 'Ali'. Can tell the nursery business has improved dramatically compared to two years ago as they are sold out of an incredible amount of plant material.

Cascadians, the type of tree you seek is what most species of trees are naturally. You live among some of the biggest, fastest growing trees in the world out here in the Pacific Northwest. Cultivars mostly reduce the scale, which is handy for gardening purposes, not to mention kind of cool. Some cultivars also toy with colour (Larix 'Blue Rabbit' perhaps?) or density (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Erecta' perhaps?) or droopiness (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Green Arrow' perhaps?) or other qualities. But if it's big and fast you're after, you don't need to navigate through the amazing selection of cultivars available; look no further than various species trees. And maybe then indeed you can find cultivars for others. By the way Kman, nice find! KarinL

hey nick of NOT Toronto ... i dont buy your tap rot theory ... based on 40 years of experience ... but i am not going to argue it.. nor care to read about the science.. i will leave that all to the tree geeks.. rotflmbo .. if tap roots were that big a deal ... i would not have been able to mail order hundreds of bare root trees .. nor ever dig one up .... anyway .... the single issue is water .. and as related.. the soil ... below massive giant trees ... GO DIG A HOLE.. then lets have this discussion ... i predict.. under large mature pines.. you are going to find highly compacted.. nearly cement like soil.. that hasnt been turned or worked.. in 30.. 50.. as many years as those trees are there ... trust me.. i have tried ... and i am not talking about virgin forest with hundreds of years of compost under trees .... so lets say you dig a hole.. if you amend it.. where will the pines send roots?? so you must stay with native soil ... then.. you place your plant.. and you need to water it heavily for at least two years ... and where are the pines.. [any large tree] ... going to grow roots ... into your struggling new plant ... so you should probably broadcast your water.. so as to not attract the trees to your babes ... [it should be obvious.. at planting.. the hole/plant MUST be watered .. i hope anyway] its NOT that it cant be done.. but i submit.. your honor.. ITS ALL ABOUT YOUR ABILITY to work the soil .... and more importantly.. provide the water a small plant will need under this 50 to 100 foot monster ... dig the hole.. tell us what you find ... i bet it wont be all that many roots ... and NEVER fertilize a HOLE under a tree ... trees just arent that stupid ... they will find the food ... so no matter what you plant.. it will be all about getting a babe enough water under a monster.. without stimulating the monster to take over .... if you havent heard.. i grow hosta under trees ... and water is the ONLY basic issue ... boy did i screw up years ago.. hand watering under my beloved freakin maple .... lol .. the maple figured it out.. before i put the hose away ... lol ... not to mention i fertilized individual plants by hand .. oh well.. live and learn .... i moved to get away from that maple ... ken ps: if you find a big root.. you move your hole.. dont cut the root.. it will grow new roots right there ... go figure ...

Too bad -- looked like it might make it. I once transplanted a couple small white pines from very rocky soil -- so rocky I was carefully loosening & pulling up the spreading roots by hand from on top the rocks. There was no "depth" to the root mass. Spread the roots out on the new spot, covered w/soil & mulch and tied trees to supports, watered regularly, and they survived.