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Picea
abies 'Aarburg' 2 year graft $45.00
By far my favorite weeping
Picea abies 'Acrocona' 2 year
graft $45.00
Originating around 1890 in
Picea abies 'Acrocona pusch' 2
year graft $65.00
A slow growing witches broom of ‘Acrocona’
that appeared around 1987 in Berlin, it cones on the branch tips at a young age
with perfect miniature cones, however all the energy put into cones makes for a
weak growing plant, perhaps it would be a good Idea to prune cones from young
plants for the first few years.
Picea abies 'Argenteospica' 2
year graft $45.00 Older
$75.00
Upright conical the new spring foliage is creamy
yellow; it’s very beautiful in spring combined with Lundel’s
red needle.
Picea
abies 'Barryi' 2 year graft $45.00
Older $75.00
An old cultivar that goes back to Beissner
in 1891, it is a robust but tight growing plant that is somewhat confused in American
cultivation with ‘Clanbrassiliana’ however the two
look nothing alike, Clanbrassiliana’ is much dwarfer.
Picea abies 'Cincinata' 2 year
graft $45.00
This goes back to 1897 in
Picea abies 'Cobra'.. 2
year graft $65.00
A cool snake spruce with very long shoots and for once
a name to fit.
Picea
abies 'Cranstonii' ....... Older $65.00
A snake spruce similar in habit to ‘Virgata’ but more prone to coning on the branch tips on the
manner of ‘Acrocona’ originating at Cranston Nursery
in
Picea abies 'Crusita' 2
year graft $45.00
Red new shoots in the spring Lundell
sent this to Horstman as clone 2 crusita
and Horstman changed it to cruenta,
Lundell’s Red Needle is presumably clone 1.
Picea
abies 'Cupressina' 2 year graft $45.00
Older $75.00
A columnar form that dates way back, actually there
may be more than one clone grown under this name.
Picea
abies 'Dan's Dwarf' ..... Older
$75.00
A flattened bun with small light green leaves it is dwarf
enough for troughs growing only an inch or so a year.
Picea abies 'Denutata' 2
year graft $45.00
A snaky thing similar to Cranstonii
but slower growing, de nude spruce sounds good to me.
Picea abies 'Dumpy'.. 2 year
graft $45.00
Very tight from a witches broom found on pygmaea at Red Lodge Nursery around 1970, yet another great
plant with a crappy ass name.
Picea abies 'Elegantissima' 2
year graft $45.00
A full sized upright plant with a golden almost
frosted look this originated in
Picea abies 'Emsland' 2
year graft $45.00
A compact conical dwarf from Horstman
with stiff radial bright green foliage.
Picea abies
'Fineodonensis' 2 year graft $45.00
A medium-sized tree with pale yellow young foliage and
shoots gradually turning to dark green, the only reference I can find is from a
Holden Clough listing.
Picea abies 'Formanek' .......... Older $65.00
Raised by 'Formanek' in
Picea abies 'Fritsche' 2 year
graft $65.00
A flat mounded plant growing 2-3” per year with bright
green foliage.
Picea abies 'Froburg'............... Older $75.00
Another of Haller’s ‘Inversa’
seedlings, it grows upright with a strong leader and strongly pendulous side
branches surrounded by a large flat skirt.
Picea abies 'glauca
pendula' 2 year graft $45.00
A rather blue (for a Norway Spruce) weeping form
Picea abies 'gold drift' 2
year graft $65.00
Found by Fincham in 1990 as
a gold sport on Picea abies
‘Reflexa’ it is an excellent golden weeping form it
burns a bit when young but seems fine once well established.
Picea abies 'Gregoriana Parson' 2
year graft $45.00
This is similar to 'Gregoriana
but tends to be a bit more loose and straggly, introduced by Parson’s nursery
in NY back in 1927.
Picea abies 'Henrych' 2 year
graft $45.00
A Czechoslovakian cultivar distributed by Larry
Stanley fairly new to American cultivation.
Picea abies '
A distinctive clone with an irregular dwarf upright
habit, short stiff extremely dark green needles and prominent buds, it was
found as a witches broom by Ziegenfuss in 1970
Picea abies 'Hystrix' 2
year graft $45.00
Hornibrook’s 1923 introduction that has been described as a loose
dwarf, works for me although Hornibrook was probably
thinking of the old world Porcupine genus.
Picea abies 'Inversa'................ Older $65.00
A classic weeping form in cultivation since 1862,
generally with a strong upright leader and very pendulous branches.
Picea abies 'Jacobsen
aurea' 2 year graft $45.00
A golden form from Jacobsen in
Picea abies 'Jogeva' 2 year
graft $45.00
A new one from the Jogeva
plant breeding institute, google’s translation was no
help.
Picea abies 'kamon'. 2
year graft $45.00
A cool thing raised from a witch’s broom of Cranstonii found at the Kamon
Arboretum in
Picea abies 'Kellerman's Blue' 2
year graft $45.00 Older
$75.00
A.k.a. 'Kellerman's Blue Cameo A.k.a. Drew Kellerman,
a dense low bun with rather wide needles, whatever the name a very nice low
growing plant more than worthy of garden space.
Picea abies 'Lanham Beehive' 2
year graft $45.00
Long thick glaucous needles
with cinnamon buds and stems on compact plants the texture stands out in the
landscape.
Picea
abies 'Little Joe' 2 year graft $65.00
A conical dwarf plant introduced by Ziegenfuss in 1985.
Picea abies 'Loreley'............... Older $75.00
A rather slow growing weeping form with finer needles
than pendula that originated with Grootendorst
in Boskoop in 1975
Picea
abies 'Lundell Dwarf' Older
$125.00
An outstanding dwarf form, Lundell
was a big broom collector and he sent Dick wood of this many years ago, I
suspect the original plant is lost, but it lives on in Dick’s garden.
Picea
abies 'Lundell's Red Needle' 2 yr graft $45.00 Older
$100.00
Dick got these from Lundell
years ago, red tipped in spring at one time Dick had quite a number of red
tipped clones from Lundell’s seed, alas all were
trashed when he built his house at the gardens.
Picea abies '
There is a photo on the web, a medium sized rounded
bun with bright green new growth, it looks fairly nice.
Picea abies 'Merkii'.. 2 year
graft $45.00
A slow growing irregular pyramid that dates back to
Picea abies 'Motala' 2 year
graft $45.00
A low spreading form with thick needles similar to P. Pungens ‘Mrs Cesarini’;
found as a witches broom by a friend of Lundell near Motala.
Picea abies 'Mountain Dew'. Older $75.00
A rather scrawny sickly looking large upright plant
with needles the color of Mt Dew pop (yes it is every bit as ugly as it
sounds), that was found by Doug Wills of Sandy Oregon, we got it mostly because
Punnett drinks Mountain Dew by the gallon.
Picea abies 'Novy Dvur' 2 year
graft $45.00
A dwarf globular plant with light glaucous
green needles, Found as a witches broom in
Picea abies 'Ohlendorfii' 2
year graft $45.00
Introduced by spath in 1904
it forms a broadly conical bush with yellowish green needles
Picea abies 'pendula' 2
year graft $45.00
The well known weeping form of Picea
abies, a bit over used in gardens it is often the
plant that hooks beginners with the conifer addiction.
Picea
abies 'Perry's Gold' 2 year graft $45.00
A dense small tree spreading when young, spring
foliage emerges near white becoming bright yellow and gradually fading to
green, it needs some shade or it will burn.
Picea abies 'Pima WB' 2
year graft $45.00
A Czechoslovakian broom that forms a flattened ball annual growth is less
than an inch a year.
Picea abies 'Pygmaea' 2 year
graft $45.00
A prostrate, mounding, dwarf form; similar to ‘Maxwelli’ but with fewer reversions.
Picea abies 'Pyramidalis' 2
year graft $45.00
There are a number of old clones circulating under
this name most are indistinguishable and have been lumped under f. pyramidata.
Picea abies 'Ram Rod' 2 year
graft $45.00
An Armintrout selection,
columnar and seldom seen in conifer collections.
Picea abies 'RemontII' 2 year
graft $45.00
A neat conical bush with short mid green needles this
dates back to 1874 in the
Picea abies 'Rothenhausii' 2
year graft $45.00
Named for a broom found by Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg
at Rothenhausen in 1938, that’s Czech if you are
wondering.
Picea abies 'Rubra spicata' 2
year graft $45.00
Scarlet new shoots from Lundell
to Gothenburg who passed it to Wansdyke and
eventually introduced by Hilliars in 1981 it seems to
be distinct from Lundel’s other introductions.
Picea abies 'Sherwood Compact' 2
year graft $45.00
This should probably be sherwoodii,
a flat globose plant with an irregular outline.
Picea abies 'Soproni Korong' 2
year graft $45.00
Hungarian Donkey Kong? Or is it Czech, I have no idea
what this is.
Picea abies 'Suncrest #2' 2
year graft $45.00
Also known as Suncrest
pyramid it is a medium growing pyramid with deep green foliage, a perfect pagan
holiday tree that needs no shearing.
Picea abies 'Tabuliformis' 2
year graft $45.00
Brigitta's favorite dwarf Norway clone; growth is in distinct
layers but the top is always flat. A spreading low plant becoming large and
very impressive with age, see photo in Conifers, Van Gelderen
& Van Hoey Smith page 204.
Picea abies 'tompa'.. 2
year graft $45.00
A dense light green cone that is a bit reminiscent of
a dwarf Alberta Spruce; 'Tompa' originated at
BARABIT’S in
Picea abies '
Another great Greg Williams Kate Brook introduction
this used to be known as Repens Aurea,
completely prostrate with golden needles 4-6” of annual growth.
Picea abies 'Virgata' 2 year
graft $45.00
Years ago I remember being captivated by the big snake
in the Harper Collection, the plant is bizarre, indeed it fits right in at
Arrowhead (a great many plant collectors are also into Herps,
check out the links at Kingsnake.com).
Picea abies 'Wagnerii' 2 year
graft $45.00
Subglobose and very dwarf and congested introduced by
Picea
abies 'Wartburg'........... Older $75.00
A pendulous selection made by Haller of Switzerland in
1975 with thick coarse needles and orangish new
branches, according to Van Hoey Smith it is rare in
cultivation and needs staking or it will be flat.
Picea
abies 'Wills Zwergform'
2 year graft $45.00
A conical compact plant with light green foliage,
named for Hans Wills the foreman of Bruns nursery in
Picea abies '
Found by Joe Stupka, a tight
round globular broom.
Picea
abies 'Witches Brood' Older $75.00
Great name, (also known as Millstream Broom) a witches
broom seedling raised by Linc Foster, A mint green
gumdrop at first later becoming conical, with light green ostrich feather
branches.
Picea asperata '94-3048' 2 year
graft $45.00
Native to western china growing up to 40m tall with a
1.5m trunk diameter, dragon Spruce is impressive, these are from a wild
collection in 1994, it is declining due to too much logging in
Picea asperata 'Aurantiaca' 2
year graft $45.00
A minor variation of the dragon spruce, shoots are
orange.
Picea asperata '
A blue form this seems to be nearly identical to glauca.
Picea asperata 'Glauca'....... Older $75.00
An especially nice blue needled form of the Dragon
Spruce introduced in 1936 by Hess in Germany it has the look of pungens but with long pendulous Picea
abies cones.
Picea
asperata 'Morton Arb' Older $75.00
A compact form of Chinese Dragon Spruce, which
presumably originated at Morton Arb.
Picea asperata 'nigrans' 2
year graft $45.00
An upright clone with rich dark green needles.
Picea asperata 'Spring Red' 2
year graft $45.00
I didn’t see these last spring but new foliage is
supposed to tip out red in the manner of P abies ‘Crusita’.
Picea bicolor 'Howells Dwarf Tigertail' 2
year graft $45.00
Also known as Howell’s Dwarf although it is not all
that dwarf, it has been widely distributed by Vermeulen’s
and is a fine plant.
Picea
bicolor 'Prostrata' 2 year graft $45.00
A low spreading nested plant from the Pruhonice arboretum in
Picea breweriana..... 2 year
graft $45.00
These are from a reasonably hardy form from Gee’s with
a naturally weeping habit.
Picea breweriana 'Emerald Midget' 2
year graft $65.00
Breweriana brooms are virtually unknown in cultivation indeed
none of the conifer references list this, better still it is apparently more
cold tolerant than the species, surviving in Gee’s private collection and
thanks to Gary we now have grafts.
Picea breweriana 'Fruhling Gold' 2
year graft $65.00
A golden form, I suspect it will need a lot of
protection here but it does survive in an unheated polyhouse
Picea
A tough little dog and a favorite of our local horned
owls (our local pair was shot in the middle of the night by one of our low life
neighbors) but I digress send out ins
this Mexican native is living in the arboretum at Gees.
Picea crassifiola 'UNL963308-34' 2
year graft $45.00
The Tsinghai Spruce, a rare
Chinese plant that should grow to 25 m or so, If anyone knows who uses the UNL
accession numbers give me a call.
Picea engelmannii 'Blue Magoo' 2
year graft $45.00
I’m a bit vague on the description, but so what if “we
aint got nothing yet” the band was still great.
Picea
engelmannii 'Bush's Lace'
Older $100.00 2 year graft
$45.00
By all accounts Dick Bush is quite a character, he
found this in a Christmas tree planting he was appraising, snipped a few
scions, thinking to come back later for more, good that he whacked it because
when he returned the original was no more, someone got one hell of a Christmas
tree. That original graft is now in Gee’s front garden and it is spectacular,
as is the one in our waterfall garden (we talked
Picea engelmannii 'Collectors ' 2
year graft $45.00
A selection from collectors, you’ll have to dig out an
old catalog for this one.
Picea engelmannii 'Compacta' 2
year graft $45.00
A glaucous bun that looks a
bit like Picea pungens
'R.H. Montgomery', but with finer engelman foliage
and of course with much greater appeal to collectors.
Picea engelmannii 'Glauca Hess' 2
year graft $45.00
A good glaucous blue form
that originated with Beissner at Hesse
Nurseries in
Picea engelmannii 'Hoodie' 2
year graft $45.00
These came from Talon with no description, growth rate
seems moderate and the color is good with a neat conical shape they should
reach 4-5’ in about ten years, presumably, they originate from somewhere on
Picea engelmannii 'Lil Barb' 2
year graft $65.00
A new introduction from Jerry Morris mine are still
young but it looks to be a nice broom.
Picea engelmannii 'Snake' 2 year graft $65.00
Like many plantsmen Herps have long been a
passion of mine, not surprisingly our gardens are filled with snake branched
cultivars, of all of them this is perhaps the most desirable, scion wood is in
very short supply, in part because branches tend to die when a scion is
harvested, a plant that detests pruning. This would make a fitting centerpiece
in any collection.
Picea engelmannii 'St.
ladislau' 2 year graft $65.00
A congested upright
semi weeping form found by Craig Masching at a church
in Detroit interesting but perhaps a pungens clone I
have not seen cones.
Picea gemmata '#15-24SE' 2
year graft $65.00
Tapaoshan Spruce, a rare plant from
Picea glauca '4th hand' 2
year graft $45.00
Wtf an alien broom or just siamese
twins, this is a snakey looking thing.
Picea glauca 'Bee Hive' 2 year
graft $45.00
A dwarf conical plant shaped like an old fashioned bee
hive ( not a square white box)
Picea
glauca 'Brevifolia' 2 year graft $45.00
Slow growing short-needled selection from Hillside
Nurseries in PA.
Picea glauca 'coerulea' 2
year graft $45.00
An extremely blue form of glauca
this is much superior to the species for general landscape use.
Picea glauca 'Compacta' 2 year
graft $45.00
A dwarf selection that dates to 1923 now confused in
cultivation with the following
Picea glauca 'Compacta Gracilis' 2
year graft $45.00
An 1881 introduction by Beissner,
let me know if you think this is correct.
Picea
glauca 'Dent' 2 year graft $45.00
Older $75.00
Found by Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery, an
upright form with irregular cream variegation that holds throughout the summer
but burns in too much sun. He thinks it is not one of his better introductions,
I disagree, true it is a bit unstable but we have been selecting only the best
wood to graft and our plants look fantastic and do not seem to revert.
Picea glauca '
Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nursery found this 40
years ago, a roadside plant in Ft. Ann NY.; the original was cut down by a road
crew. A glauca
snake very few branches and glaucous bluish gray
foliage still rare in cultivation and very desirable, large specimens are
nearly impossible to obtain. Greg recommends it for people who want something
different although after they see it they usually want something a little less
different.
Picea
glauca 'Heartland
A dwarf bluish green globe shaped plant the original
should be in the Hartland collection.
Picea
glauca 'Hudsonii' 4 year graft $75.00
An upright bushy form with extremely blue needles that
originated in
Picea glauca 'Little Globe' 2
year graft $45.00
A broom found by Verkades in
1968 in Wayne NJ there are a number of globose glauca forms all quite similar.
Picea glauca 'Millstream Broom 2
year graft $45.00
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.
Picea
glauca 'Monstrosa Nana' 2 year graft $45.00 Older
$100.00
The name says it all.
Picea
glauca 'Pendula' 2 year graft $45.00
Leader goes up perfectly straight, branches weep straight
down; this was found by Carriére in
Picea glauca 'Reath's W.B.' 2
year graft $45.00
There’s more to Vulcan than Peonies and Mr. Spock,
however there was that old Star Trek episode with the witchcraft and black
cats, and now this witches broom, what does this mean? Is it a government plot
or just a cosmic coincidence?
Picea glauca 'Wild Acres' 4
year graft $65.00
A low spreading plant that gets quite large, it eats
its share of garden real estate and might cover an acre in about 4,500 years.
Picea glauca '
Short bluish gray needles and a conical upright habit
this will be 12-15’ in ten years.
Picea glehnii................ 2
year graft $45.00
The Sakhalin Spruce will get big, at least 30m, it’s great if you have the
room.
Picea glehnii 'Yatsubusa' 2
year graft $65.00
Sakhalin Spruce, known for its exfoliating chocolate
brown bark, a dense slow growing upright plant introduced by iseli in 1990.
Picea jesoensis 'landis' 2
year graft $45.00
A Canadian clone released to the trade in 1981, beyond
that I can offer little information.
Picea jesoensis 'Yatsubusa' 2
year graft $65.00
A slow growing dwarf form introduced by L.G. Bentham in 1981 with yellowish green needles
Picea jesoensis 'Yosawa' 2 year
graft $45.00
A dwarf selection introduced by Horstman
in 1988, it is a pyramidal upright thing a virtual virgin magnet, “Hey do you
want to come home and see my 'Yosawa'” will get them
every time,
Picea Koraiensis....... 2 year
graft $45.00
A Korean species found mostly in N Korea north of the Yalu River and into Russia, it is closely related to the
Koyama Spruce. Pyramidal to about 60’ growing 12-18” per year, branch tips
curve upwards and the bluish green needles are sharply pointed.
Picea lichangensis. 2 year
graft $45.00
The taxonomy of these Chinese spruces is a mess, many
have been lumped together, this will get big, 30m or more.
Picea
lichangensis 'Purpurea' 2 year graft $45.00
A spectacular spruce from the
Picea mariana 'Aureospicata' 2
year graft $45.00
Upright growing with a golden flush in spring.
Picea mariana ‘Blue Tier Drop' 2
year graft $45.00
Foliage is exceptionally blue for a mariana it will form a 3-4’ broad pyramid in ten years.
Picea mariana 'Doumetii' 2 year
graft $45.00
An old selection found by Carriére
in
Picea mariana
'FASTIGIATA' 2 year graft $65.00
A slow growing conical upright form raised at the Trianon Gardes in
Picea
mariorika 'Kobol' 4 year graft $75.00
The grex is Picea mariana x Picea omorika; Kobol is a dense globular form with fine grayish blue
needles a 1972 Jeddeloh cross between Picea mariana ‘Doumetii’ and an unknown omorika
clone. I’m surprised that no one is making large numbers of controlled dwarf
conifer crosses the market for such things would seem to be huge and the
transfer of pollen very easy.
Picea
mariorika '
An interesting plant morphologically it seems to be a
clear hybrid between Picea mariana
and Picea omorika, however
Mr. Machala of the Czech Republic who originated it
in 1971 considered it a seedling of P. jesoensis.
This seems unlikely, however there is a recorded cross P. x moseri
between P. jesoensis and Picea
mariana ‘Doumetii’ with bicolored foliage made by Moser which goes back to 1900 in
France but the details are a bit sketchy whatever it forms an extremely
squashed cone of bicolored foliage that is quite
attractive.
Picea maximowiczii '6' 2 year
graft $45.00
This Japanese species is very rare in the wild and in
cultivation, very slow, three feet in ten years on vigorous abies
understock slower still on its own roots.
Picea
montegena 'Retro' 385-1958 Older $100.00 2 yr
graft $45.00
The Candelabra Spruce considered by some to be a
subspecies of Picea lichangensis
Picea myeri.................... 2
year graft $45.00
A 1914
Picea obovata............. 2
year graft $45.00
Siberian spruce now treated by some as a subspecies of
Picea abies, cold hardy to
zone 2 and growing 100’ tall this sucker is tough.
Picea omorika 'Aurea' 2 year
graft $45.00
This is what passes for gold in the Serbians, there is
a picture in Conifers: The Illustrated Encyclopedia.
Picea omorika 'Berliners
Weeping' 2 year graft $45.00
A fastigiate weeping
selection, but not as strict as ‘Bruns Pendula’, old plants of omorika
develop a spectacular silhouette, the photo of a plant in the Tara mountains in
Krussman is legendary, every conifer collector wants
that plant, an old Berliner will come close.
Picea
omorika 'Bruns Pendula' 2 year graft $45.00
One of the coolest trees in our collection, not to
mention most expensive, big plants of Bruns are very
hard to come by, it looks like Morticia Adams,
strictly weeping with the skirt trailing on the ground; the most strongly
weeping of the pendulous omorika forms.
Picea
omorika 'Dwarf Form' Older $75.00
A reasonably nice plant however the name is useless,
we can trace them back to Fincham yet another dwarf omorika.
Picea omorika '
A Horstman introduction
originally called Hexenbessen #3 and later named
Picea omorika 'expansa'......... Older $65.00
Expansa is strange; it is a low spreading form that shows
considerable understock influence when grafted.
Picea
omorika 'Freya' 2 year graft $45.00
Older $75.00
A dwarf conical selection with rather coarse foliage
and a fairly open habit from a seedling selected in 1990 by Gebroeders
Meeuwissen.
Picea omorika 'Hexenbessen' 2
year graft $45.00
All of these little omorika
brooms tend to look a like, consider this one generic.
Picea
omorika 'Kuck Weeping' 2 year graft $45.00
Older $75.00
Kuck is supposed to be an even stricter weeping form than
'Bruns Pendula' originating
in 1983 with Kuck in
Picea omorika 'Minima' 2
year graft $45.00
A silvery blue bun it grows less than a inch a year
and is great for larger troughs.
Picea omorika 'Nana' 2
year graft $45.00
A medium dwarf globose form,
nana eventually gets rather large, this 1939 Grootendorst
introduction is a classic and deservedly popular both for general landscape use
and with conifer collectors.
Picea omorika 'pendula' 2
year graft $45.00
The typical weeping form not as pendulous as things
like Bruns
Picea
omorika 'Prostrata' . Older $75.00
Punnett’s clone this grows flat, as in pancake, no leader, I
think he got it from Lundell, in any event a fabulous
plant quite unlike anything currently in the conifer trade.
Picea omorika 'Snezna WV 2
year graft $45.00
Suffering from spruce fever the cure is simple no
shots no pain just buy more conifers and the sneezing will stop.
Picea omorika 'Treblitsch' 2
year graft $65.00
Found as a witches broom in a park in 'Treblitsch' in 1977 it forms a tight ball, the needles
curling to show their blue undersides giving a lovely two-tone effect. An
excellent cultivar has been trouble free for us.
Picea omorika 'White Tops' 2
year graft $45.00
This candles out pale in spring but the effect is not
as stunning as it is on things like Picea pungens ‘Ghost”
Picea orientalis 'aurea
spreader' 2 year graft $45.00
A spreading golden form of Oriental Spruce, I have
only seen small plants and it may be like Picea omorika expansa where the understock has considerable influence on the ultimate
habit.
Picea orientalis 'Aureospicata'