I should email you my wishlit so you so you can hand pick my order! Thanks for sharing by the way.

Is that a section of Abies koreana 'Icebreaker' three pics up from the bottom?

Yes, leaving a nursery empty-handed is like leaving a restaurant without having had a meal! Especially a nursery stocked with little wonders like those shown! Wish there was such a place around here.Thanks for the tour! T.

Wonderful shots! Thanks Will!

Will, those are Abies koreana 'Kohout's Icebreaker' specimens in three gallon pots. I believe Bob uses them as stock plants. He said he'd sell one for your first born. lol Just kidding. I think Bob is sold out of 'Kohout's Icebreaker' for this year but as you can see, he'll be working on more specimens for 2012 and the last year 2013.

I think he has some on standard, but again unless you want to pay a very high shipping price or visit in person, I don't think these are options.

Glad you enjoyed, to be there is person is obviously a great treat!

-Will

I can hardly stand it.

Thanks Will,

Dax

Some more shots:

Picea omorika 'Gunter'. Epic!

Taxus baccata 'Green Diamond'. Nice, wide and lush green.

Abies grandis x 'Leuteneggeri'. Abies grandis and Abies concolor cross. Great color.

Picea abies 'Gold Finch'. Bob's 14th gold seedling.

Picea glauca 'Dick North'

Picea omorika 'Frohnleiten'. Bob noticed a golden branch recently.

A closeup.

Picea glauca 'Ducharme'. Seen this listed as Picea abies as well.

Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe' and I think Abies koreana 'Kristallkugel'.

Abies procera 'Popisil'. A great, true miniature. Hard to find.

Pinus strobus 'Louie'

Lost the name on this one(which is not the same as the tag)

Picea abies 'Aarburg'. Awesome monster.

Picea sitchensis 'Virgata'. Another monster, with great color.

A very narrow Serbian spruce. I'll need Bob to help remind me of the name.

Picea orientalis 'Silver Seedling'

Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns', sending a new leader.

Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns'. Less straight down weeping to this specimen but Bob is sure of it's origins and authenticity.

Some more shots.

Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Curtis'

Sciadopitys verticillata 'Cristate Form'

Picea glauca 'Cecilia'

Pinus parviflora 'Catherine Elizabeth'. Pretty damn choice!

Picea omorika 'Elisabeth'

Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe' foliage and pest assistance.

Hope you enjoyed!

-Will

re 'Gunter' and 'Silver Seedling'...wow and wow. Thanks for sharing the pics and thanks to Bob for planting them!

I really wish I could grow the Abies procera species. Same for Sequoiadendron and same for Cedrus.

Thanks for eye candy Will. That Pinus parviflora 'Catherine Elizabeth' is indeed very nice.

tj

Will (from WI), I have been growing Abies procera "La Graciosa" through two winters up here so far- you should be able to grow it in a sheltered location.

I agree that the Silver Seedling is gorgeous! I wonder how old it is?

-Matt

Nice Louie! Thanks for the tour.

Ha ha, frogs sitting in conifers, thanks for capturing those two, adds an extra habitat dimension to the wonderful specimens.

Impressive and I can see why you love to visit there. Beautiful!
Cher

As always, thanks!

Dax

So, after Will's outstanding cavalcade of excellent photographs, I have found a few plants that I need:
Sciadopitys verticillata 'Cristate Form' ('Cristata')
Picea glauca 'Dick North'
Picea omorika 'Gunther'
Maybe they'll be in the fall catalog... :-)

Will, I believe the name of the Pinus mugo with a few white needles is 'Milky Way'. Does this sound familiar?

Thanks for sharing with us all!

-Sam

Will,

nice rare conifers you showed us. Thanks!

Do you know something about Sequ.gig. Curtis? Is this a lower growing spezimen or a dwarf one? Never heard in Europe from this cultivar.

Wolfgang

Nice tour at my friend Bob's garden!
Thanks for the nice pics of the beautiful speciments.
Back in 2004 I saw many of those I saw myself, only then they were a little bit smaller :0)

Some comments to these nice pics:
Abies pinsapo 'W.B. # 7' doesn't exist.
There were only 4 brooms found in Spain by my friend Guenther Eschrich...

Picea abies 'Witches' Broom' is the wrong cultivar name for what is Picea abies 'Witches' Brood', formerly named as 'Millstream Broom'...

Yep, that Abies veitchii 'Rumburk' is right to the name.
In the beginning it will grow as a flat topped broom, later on a leader will develop...

Pinus parviflora 'Kinpo'
Must bin written as 'Kin-po'

That Picea jezoensis 'Nana Kalous' isn't the right one for sure.
The true 'Nana Kalous' was found as a witches' broom in the Czech Republic and will grow only about 5 cm/year.
Will, if you've the same one then you both have the wrong one in your collections.
May be it reverted or it's just the species Picea jezoensis...
'Marianske Lazne' and 'Marienbad' are synonyms for the 'Nana Kalous'.

Abies borisii-regis 'J.K. Greece' is also written in the right way.
Till now it's the only witches' broom found of this species.
The J.K. means Joerg Kohout.

Picea omorika 'Gunther' must bin written here as 'Guenther' becuase the double dots here at this forum will give us some troubles...

Lucky Bob, again he found a light coloured mutation in a Picea omorika cultivar, formerly in a Picea omorika 'Pendula Major' and this time in a Picea omorika 'Frohnleiten'.
Did he spray some special stuff at these plants so they made these mutations? :o)

The Abies koreana 'Witches' broom at the left of the Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe' is indeed the 'Kristallkugel'.
It's recognizable because it's flat topped...
Till recently I always thought that both were German cultivars but I found out that one of them is an U.S. selection...breaking news!

Abies procera 'Popisil'
Must bin written as 'Pospisil'.

Sam is right about the Pinus mugo var. pumilio 'Verijeken Seedling' which was only a temporary cultivar name.
The proper cultivar name now is 'Milky Way'.

That last pic of the Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns' isn't the right one, it's Picea omorika 'Bruns' which isn't the same as 'Pendula Bruns'.
They even didn't derive from the same nursery...

The full cultivar name of the Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Curtis' is 'Philip Curtis'...
it's one of only a few witches' brooms of this species...

I hope this is good helping info :O)

Wolfgang, your memory isn't working well, is this because you're getting older? ;0)
A couple of years ago you received a 'Philip Curtis' from me :0)

Thanks Edwin, lots of corrections for me to make in my records. Some were just typos. You may be helping me(if willing) until the end of days with the vast amount of conifers out there and the confusion amongst names, origins and spellings.

""Lucky Bob, again he found a light coloured mutation in a Picea omorika cultivar, formerly in a Picea omorika 'Pendula Major' and this time in a Picea omorika 'Frohnleiten'.
Did he spray some special stuff at these plants so they made these mutations? :o""

Maybe just a numbers game? When you have 20,000(?) plants and 5,000 specimens 10+ years or older, I think the odds for mutations are pretty good! :)

Thanks Edwin/Sam.

What is the white needled sciadopitys? below the
Sequoiadendron gigantium 'Philp Curtis'

Euan, that difficult to say from this pic.
If it's a realy white one then it could be 'Perlenglanz', but because of the light issue it could also be one of the yellow needled cultivars...

Hello Edwin,

my memory is well, if I must remember plants. In other things there are much more problems. I know ' Philip Curtis ' very well and your plants are still alive. But only ' Curtis' I was not sure, if this is the same cultivar.

So, thanks for your help

Wolfgang

Bumping this link in case those looking to shop around for conifers need some enabling!

-Will

Thanks - I never get tired of looking at this thread.

And again the 'Silver Seedling' just amazes me.

What gorgeous photos. Thank you so much for posting them. I am thrilled to see a large Louie. I can't wait until mine gets that big.

I'm sorry to be bringing up old threads but I could not get on Gardenweb for a couple weeks and am not furiously trying to get caught up. I don't want to miss anything you guys said. I'm really surprised the rest of you were able to get online. hmmmm Must have been my computer, but that is odd as I was able to get into other websites.