I will do this grouping of three in one photo. All three are approximately the same age and planted at the same time. 2002. I would guess they are all close to 15 years old. Left to right: Pinus strobus 'Horstford', Pinus mugo 'Zundert' and Picea pungens 'St. Marys Broom'. Dave Pinus strobus 'Horstford' This nicely shaped bun has wonderful light green needles. It is one of the best of the dwarf, bun-shaped, globose types of White Pine available. It is a selection of Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery in Vermont so you know this one is good and hardy to zone 3. The height and width is 2 feet in ten years making this a perfect fit for use in a dwarf garden. This one is 14" high by 40" wide. Pinus mugo 'Zundert'. This selection has an exceptionally bright gold winter color and distinctively long needles. Lower and denser growth habit than 'Pumilio'. Grows about 3" per year. Full sun, Zone 4. Growth rate 3-4" a year. This one just beginning its transformation to winter color. 33" high 42" wide. Picea pungens 'St. Mary's Broom' An old favorite that still commands attention. A dwarf form with silver-blue foliage that grows in a squat globose to broad conical form. Great blue needle colors and small size make it a nice choice for a rock garden or foundation planting. Zone 3. with a growth rate of 1-2" a year. This one 22" high by 42" wide. It attempted to grow a central leader 4 years ago but I removed it to prevent a conical form from developing.

Zsolt, Caddy Falls Nursery is in VT(Vermont) not CT. im sure just a typo. When I visited him, I remember his house was on a hill, His house was tall with a coupla(how ever spelled) on top. All four sides of the where tall windows. Inside the coupla was a telescope and I was told that he uses it during the winter to search for variegated/golden conifers in the forest that surrounds his home. I also remember him showing me a picea pungens in his nursery with the whitest sport on it. I have never in my years of collecting have seen anything this white on a conifer. So white that it makes Ts. can 'Betty Rose' look like a joke even though 'Betty Rose' is a great conifer.

Edwin, maybe you are right, and maybe not. From the far taken photos I have doubts, if we are speaking about a Dragon eye-like plant. This story is unfinished without the Kristick Nursery Wellsville PA USA. Generally I have a wide sight in misspelling or renameing. The first company is the simple misspelling, like here with Tsuga canadensis, which is a white tipped nice cultivar. Just have a look there. Tsuga canadensis âÂÂGentsch Whiteâ A little study to Gentsch âÂÂsymphonyâÂÂ. We have max two cultivars in, but maybe only one, which has an origin and a publisher person, Welch himself. All other names are belonging to a fairy tale of misspelling⦠Are you strong enough to delete the superflous misspellings? Gentsch USA Gentsch Dwarf /Gentsch Dwarf Globe/ USA Tsuga canadensis âÂÂGentsch Dwarf Globeâ Gentsch Dwarf Globe /Palomino/ USA Tsuga canadensis âÂÂGentsch Dwarf Globeâ Gentsch Globe /Gentsch Dwarf Globe/ USA Tsuga canadensis âÂÂGentsch Dwarf Globeâ GentschâÂÂs Variegated /Gentsch White/ USA GentschâÂÂs White Welch in Swartley 1984 USA Otto Gentsch, Long Island, NY USA Tsuga canadensis âÂÂGentschâÂÂs Whiteâ GentschâÂÂs White Tip /Gentsch White/ USA I call this as simple misspelling, and among the several records we have only one, which has an author, a breeder. All others are mist names. There is an other category, when known plants will be simply renamed, which is a crime. Here we need much more photos, much more literature about introducing and other infos. If you say now, that Draconis and Corbit are the same, you say, that the Kristick had stolen (renamed) a cultivar, as it should have been a new one. Maybe yes, but till you have not enough in the pocket, not. An example: the ACS database corrected a year ago the Metasequoia glyptostroboides Gold Rush back to Ogon, because it was a simple renaming with the imported cultivar. Thats why I generelly not like renaming: maybe stolen or maybe just a better name for the market of commercial ground. You can ask me, what could be the solution? I think, the fully description with full datas and photos, and publishing, after that a marker name, what you also use for your plants Filip etc. The best way is of course to select such like plants, which are unique, and by no way confusable with any others... Zsolt

Arrowhead Alpinus mentioned something else about the Picea abies 'Millcreek Broom': PICEA GLAUCA 'MILLSTREAM BROOM'. To tell the truth I got this just for the name, presumably it goes back to Linc Foster. It.s an erect dwarf plant that is a pincushion of stiff needled fox tailed shoots each topped by a prominent bud giving the general impression of a dwarf Picea abies.