Picea abies 'Aarburg' 2 year graft  $45.00

By far my favorite weeping Norway 'Aarburg' has a fantastic irregular weeping habit, incredible when silhouetted against the skyline on a moonlit night, introduced by Haller nurseries of Aarburg Switzerland, the photo in the Conifer Encyclopedia does not begin to do it justice.

 

Picea abies 'Acrocona' 2 year graft  $45.00

Originating around 1890 in Sweden this produces cones at the tips of the branches, it comes fairly true from seed and tip coneing forms can be found in the woods around Uppsala

 

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 Germany, another snake spruce and well worth growing. 

 

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 England around 1840.

 

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 Holland in 1867.

 

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 Czechoslovakia around 1906 and introduced by Wansdyke Nurseries in the uk, it is a slow growing strongly weeping form similar to ‘Wingles Pendula’ that grows as a flat mat unless staked.

 

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 'Hillside Upright' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Denmark

 

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 Hungary the photo in the conifer encyclopedia is bizarre to say the least.

 

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 'Maryland Broom' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Germany introduced by Beissner in 1884

 

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 Czechoslovakia by Gert Bohme, He used to send me some great seeds before the wall came down.

 

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 U.K.

 

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 Hungary.

 

Picea abies 'Vermont Gold' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Hillside nurseries, I’m curious as to whether Herb Wagner had anything to do with finding this.

 

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 Germany

 

Picea abies 'Wilson' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 China.

 

Picea asperata 'Aurantiaca' 2 year graft  $45.00

A minor variation of the dragon spruce, shoots are orange.

 

Picea asperata 'china blue' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Czechoslovakia

 

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 chihuahua........ 2 year graft  $65.00

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 Gary out of the second largest plant in existence)

 

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 Germany around 1887.

 

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 Mount Hood.

 

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 China originally introduced by Wilson in 1914.

 

Picea glauca '4^th 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 'Fort Ann' 2 year graft  $65.00

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 Metz' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Germany.

 

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 Versailles in 1867.

 

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 'Yukon Blue' 2 year graft  $45.00

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 Jade Dragon Mountains, the purplish red cones are perhaps the most ornamental of any spruce often listed as Picea purpurea.

 

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 France in 1855, it is a slow growing conical form.

 

Picea mariana 'FASTIGIATA' 2 year graft  $65.00

A slow growing conical upright form raised at the Trianon Gardes in Versailles in 1915.

 

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 'Machala' ... Older $75.00

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 Wilson introduction from western China, it is an Asian counterpart of pungens and has been crossed with it.

 

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 'Elizabeth' 2 year graft  $45.00

A Horstman introduction originally called Hexenbessen #3 and later named Elizabeth after his wife it is a dwarf conical bush that grows at one quarter the rate of nana

 

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 Oldenburg and introduced by Horstman, however I still prefer 'Bruns’.

 

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' 2 year graft  $45.00  Older  $75.00

In cultivation since 1919, it is similar to and often confused with Picea orientalis 'Aurea'. Emerging spring foliage is stunning; the golden shoots gradually change to deep green. Unlike ‘Skylands’, this never burns and is a traffic stopper in spring.

 

Picea orientalis 'Barnes' 2 year graft  $45.00 Older  $75.00

A dwarf from Fincham compact ball that will eventually develop a leader, very short needles.

 

Picea orientalis 'Bergman's Gem' 2 year graft  $45.00  Older  $75.00

A cushion when young this gradually develops a conical shape with age.

 

Picea orientalis 'Compacta' 2 year graft  $45.00

A slow growing conical form much like gracilis, introduced by Krussman in 1972.

 

Picea orientalis 'early gold' 2 year graft  $45.00

A selection from Vermeulens that flushes two weeks earlier that aureospicata.

 

Picea orientalis 'gowdy' 2 year graft  $65.00

A narrow columnar form with short dark green needles

 

Picea orientalis 'Gracilis' 2 year graft  $45.00

A densely growing broadly conical Belgian introduction from 1903

 

Picea orientalis 'Gracilis Nana' 2 year graft  $45.00

Similar to nana this supposedly dates back to 1905

 

Picea orientalis 'Martin' .... Older  $75.00

A short needled rather compact upright plant, Gary grows two plants under this name superficially identical except one has a golden cast in the winter and the other doesn’t, and to tell the truth I can’t remember which one we grafted but I think it is the green form.

 

Picea orientalis 'Mt. Vernon'  2 year graft  $65.00

Extremely dense and slow growing I’m guessing this one showed up at Mt Vernon. It is one of the best orientalis brooms we have seen however it takes years to have much of a presence in the garden.

 

Picea orientalis 'Nigra compacta’ 2 year graft  $45.00

Shorter darker needles than the typical P. orientalis, this will eventually develop in to a broadly conical dense tree.

 

Picea orientalis 'Nigra' hl85117 Older  $75.00

This was removed from the hidden lake collection due to overcrowding, they sent us wood to keep it in cultivation.

 

Picea orientalis 'Nutans’ 2 year graft  $45.00

An old variety that forms a dense irregular weeping bush that will probably leader eventually, it was found in Hungary and introduced by Hesse in 1905, but has remained rare and obscure until recently.

 

Picea orientalis 'Pendula' 2 year graft  $45.00

I suspect this is the same as weeping dwarf and nana pendula, Whatever it is a nice weeping orientalis, and you can never have too many weeping contorted and strange conifers in the landscape.

 

Picea orientalis 'Rareflora monstrosa'       2 yr   $45.00  Older  $75.00

A very unusual looking plant with an open habit and odd needles presumably originating at Rareflora nursery.

 

Picea orientalis 'Repens' 2 year graft  $45.00

Dark green needles this is very similar to ‘bergman’s Spreading’

 

Picea orientalis 'Shadow Broom’ 2 year graft  $45.00

Discovered by Don Shadow this plant has excellent glossy deep green color and a nice bird’s nest habit.

 

Picea orientalis 'Skylands’ 2 year graft  $45.00

This ranks as one of the best golden conifers of all time, it tends to burn until well established but with a bit of care in site selection it this should be no problem.

 

Picea polita.................. 2 year graft  $45.00

The Tigertail is a spiny beast indeed, with thick spine tipped needles arranged radically around the shoots making them a pain to graft, it has a reputation for being a bit tender but has never suffered any damage here without protection in an exposed spot by the parking lot. In its native haunts on the slopes of volcanoes in Japan, old plants display pendulous tiger-tailed branchlets, a character not seen in young cultivated material.

 

Picea pseudowilsonii 2 year graft  $45.00

An upright form with somewhat pendulous branches, pseudowilsonii has proven more durable than wilsonii, lichangensis or brachytyla in our gardens. All of the Asian spruces come out of the winter looking beat up this one less than most.

 

Picea pungens 'Blue Bun' 2 year graft  $45.00

A nice dwarf blue spruce pretty much what you would expect from the name.

 

Picea pungens 'Blue Globe' Older  $75.00

Yet another innovative name I’m tempted to re-name it ‘Space Alien Spiny Hooters’ and market it to X Files fans; yes folks I found this at the Roswell crash site, hell we’d sell a bunch of them.

 

Picea pungens 'Blue Mist' 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 pungens 'Corbet' 2 year graft  $45.00

An irregular bush, there is some discrepancy about the species it may be a picea abies cultivar.

 

Picea pungens Czech Weeper' 2 year graft  $45.00

This may be the same as ‘Pendens’ as illustrated in the Conifer Encyclopedia.

 

Picea pungens 'Donna's Rainbow' 2 year graft  $45.00

Red and green and yellow and blue, one out of four isn’t bad, a slow growing squat conical bluish plant from Fincham.

 

Picea pungens ed woods blue 2 year graft  $65.00

This was distributed as a sitchensis but it seems clear that it is actually a pungens or a pungens hybrid, the color is amazing similar to Endtz, an intense silvery blue that does not fade. This is one of the top four bluest spruces.

 

Picea pungens 'egyptian pyramid’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A dense broadly pyramidal form introduced by Vermeulens in 1985

 

Picea pungens 'Endtz' 2 year graft  $45.00

A 1933 introduction by Endtz of Boskoop, it is insanely blue ranking with Thompson and Salem as one of the best

 

Picea pungens 'gentry gem’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A compact medium green selection of Colorado spruce. Spreading or globose when young, broadly pyramidal with age

 

Picea pungens 'Girards Dwarf' 2 year graft  $45.00

A 1985 Girard introduction with short blue foliage and a compact mounded habit

 

Picea pungens ‘globosa’ (glauca nana)           2 year graft  $45.00

Whatever the name this is a flattened globose plant with glaucous grayish blue foliage introduced by Hesse in 1962.

 

Picea pungens 'Gotelli Weeping' 2 year graft  $45.00

If unstaked this is Gotelli’s prostrate, good blue color and a strongly weeping habit.

 

Picea pungens 'Green Spire' 2 year graft  $45.00

Similar to iseli fastigiate but green in color.

 

Picea pungens 'Hunnewelliana' 2 year graft  $45.00

Slow growing when young eventually becoming treelike this was introduced by Hornibrook in 1923.

 

Picea pungens 'Jean Iseli' 2 year graft  $45.00

An irregular dwarf bun, very cute, Ed Wood named this for Jean.

 

Picea pungens 'Kleinood Luusbarg' Older  $75.00

Rather unusual looking for a pungens; a 1965 Den Ouden/Boom introduction of a plant found in the garden of Mrs. E. Muchmayer in Germany.

 

Picea pungens 'kluis’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A compact conical plant with coarse needles introduced in 1989

 

Picea pungens 'Kosteri Pendula' 2 year graft  $45.00

Another good weeping form with excellent blue color, this is generally confused in the trade with glauca pendula. Whatever the name the plant is fantastic, both staked or left to do it’s own thing.

 

Picea pungens 'Lutea' 2 year graft  $65.00

By far the best of the gold leaved pungens clones, it requires careful placement or it will burn, but grown well it is magnificent.

 

Picea pungens 'mackness short’ 2 year graft  $45.00

An upright growing plant with thin blue needles.

 

Picea pungens 'Mesa Verde' 2 year graft  $45.00

A pendulous low growing green form of pungens.

 

Picea pungens 'Moll' 2 year graft  $45.00 Older $100.00

A German bun, more irregular and conical than glauca globosa; foliage is grayish green.

 

Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini' 2 year graft  $45.00

A spectacular flat topped greenish globe, this was found by Joe Cesarini as a broom in 1981 possibly on Long Island, it has been a bit of a mystery at one time considered Picea abies 'Mrs. Cesarini' then Picea glauca 'Mrs. Cesarini' and also Picea jesoensis  'Mrs. Cesarini', now it resides in pungens. Obviously, a clone that does not cone freely or they would have sorted this mess out long ago.

 

Picea pungens 'Otto Von Bismark' 2 year graft  $45.00

This is probably the same as Picea pungens 'Fürst Bismarck' a vigorous, regularly symmetrical upright tree with dense regular tiers of blue foliage; nearly white when young that dates back to 1887 in Germany

 

Picea pungens 'Pendula Glauca' 2 year graft  $45.00

Yet another good blue weeping form, the effects of plagiotropism and general culture makes it nearly impossible to sort out the various weeping forms.

 

Picea pungens 'Petersburg Methodist'          2 year graft  $45.00

Scions from an upright weepy plant growing at the Methodist church in Petersburg Mi.

 

Picea pungens 'procumbens’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A flat growing form much like prostrata, staked it would make a nice weeper.

 

Picea pungens 'RM 202' 2 year graft  $45.00

 

Picea pungens 'RM 211' 2 year graft  $45.00

 

Picea pungens 'RM 216' 2 year graft  $45.00

 

Picea pungens 'RM 242' 2 year graft  $65.00

All of the above are brooms that Jerry Morris found all are nice, I’m fond of 216 but you can’t go wrong with any of them.

 

Picea pungens 'Royal Knight' 2 year graft  $65.00

A good blue selection from Vermeulen’s (the last catalog I got from them was half bible quotes, it made the arrowhead catalog look mainstream)

 

Picea pungens 'Salem' 2 year graft  $45.00

'Salem' challenges 'Thompsen', ‘Endtz’ and ‘Ed Woods Blue’ for the best blue color, after watching them side by side in the garden the last few years I find myself increasingly bewitched by ‘Salem’.

 

Picea pungens 'sester’s dwarf’ 2 year graft  $45.00

a nice compact plant with good color, it was our Christmas tree this year.

 

Picea pungens 'shilo weeping’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A good weeping form, it has an upright self-leadering habit with the side branches hanging down in a dense curtain of blue foliage.

 

Picea pungens 'Smyth' 2 year graft  $45.00

A dwarf compact plant annual growth is an inch or so.

 

Picea pungens 'St. Mary's Broom' 2 year graft  $45.00

The showiest of all the pungens brooms, it is a compact flattened bun with excellent foliage color that approaches 'Thompsen' in intensity.

 

Picea pungens 'Stanley's Dwarf' 2 year graft  $45.00

Strangely enough, Stanley does not list this; maybe it should be Stanley’s mystery.

 

Picea pungens 'Stanley's Gold' 2 year graft  $45.00

A golden plant brighter than aurea from Larry Stanley.

 

Picea pungens 'Straw' 2 year graft  $45.00

A golden form introduced by Rareflora in 1992.

 

Picea pungens 'Sunshine' 2 year graft  $45.00

Another one with good yellow shoots in spring.

 

Picea pungens 'The Blues' 2 year graft  $65.00

A new introduction from Larry Stanley, whether it lives up to its price tag still remains to be seen, so far I am impressed.

 

Picea pungens 'Thuem' 2 year graft  $45.00

An intensely blue globular form similar to R.H. Montgomery in color but slower growing, its one of the few pungens that can be grown from cuttings although these are grafts.

 

Picea pungens 'Viola' 2 year graft  $45.00

A squatty bright blue upright cone introduced by Jerry Morris

 

Picea pungens 'Waldbrun' 2 year graft  $45.00

A low-mounded plant it tends to be upright when grafted but will root in fair numbers in a nearing frame and the cuttings will stay more compact.

 

Picea pungens 'Walnut Glen' 2 year graft  $45.00

Dusted golden from above, once this settles in it is outstanding, although admittedly it can look half dead at first; it grows on you. It was discovered by Greg Williams of Kate Brook Nurseries at Walnut Glen Nursery in Philadelphia. 'Walnut Glen' was later renamed ‘Goldie” after the owners late wife.

 

Picea pungens 'Walnut Glen Not' 2 year graft  $45.00

A fantastic flat topped incredibly blue plant that Gary got from Mitch as 'Walnut Glen', it came to us mis-named through no fault of Mitch or Gees; some top conifer people have looked at it and despite the fact that it is very distinct no one has offered up a name.

 

Picea pungens 'WISCONSIN Cream' 2 year graft  $45.00

We have customers/friends from Wisconsin they visit a couple of times a year and always bring a cooler full of Wisconsin cheese, micro brewed beer, and root beer and cream soda for Ender, way better than Wisconsin cream which is only creamy in spring.

 

Picea pungens 'Wood's #2' 2 year graft  $45.00

A perfect green ball that grows an inch a year another cool plant from Ed Woods.

 

Picea pungens 'Woodstock' 2 year graft  $45.00

Very large bushy needles it grows an inch and a half a year and thrives on rock and roll, if you need rain just play it some music.

 

Picea pungens x Meyeri 2 year graft  $45.00

An upright somewhat twisted contorted blue spruce with incredibly thick stiff needles, if you fall into this you are likely to come out looking like the pinhead guy from Hellraiser, quite unlike any other spruce we grow.

 

Picea purpurea 94-305 2 year graft  $45.00

A wild collection, I do not know who the number traces to.

 

Picea purpurea 'Hirtella' 2 year graft  $45.00

The taxonomy is complicated between lichangensis, balfouriana, and purpurea: this has been treated as P. lichangensis v hirtella and also as P. balfouriana v. hirtella.

 

Picea retroflexa 'Blydenstein' 2 year graft  $45.00

Related to asperata, many consider them to be one in the same.

 

Picea rubens 'Pocono' 2 year graft  $45.00

The towering specimens of P. rubens in the Smokies dripping with moss and lichens are unforgettable, and I am surprised that the straight species is not more often grown. 'Pocono' is a different matter, originating as a seedling Ziegenfuss found in the Pocono' Mountains in 1966, entirely a globular plant set with a pincushion of current seasons tapering shoots each topped by a huge bud the look is unique but may be due in part to stress, our plants have yet to fully settle in.

 

Picea schrenkiana 'nana’ 2 year graft  $45.00

Schrenkiana is seldom seen in cultivation and this dwarf form has long been virtually unobtainable.

 

Picea schrenkiana 'reflexa’ 2 year graft  $45.00

A weeping form of this rare Russian spruce

 

Picea shirasawae 'Alpine Blue' 2 year graft  $45.00

A very rare spruce from Japan that was formerly listed as a variety of Picea bicolor

 

Picea sitchensis....... 2 year graft  $45.00

Spectacular on the west coast where it can reach Redwood proportions, it struggles here.

 

Picea sitchensis ‘Aurea’ 2 year graft  $45.00

Outstanding color but unless sited very carefully it tends to burn outside the Pacific Northwest.

 

Picea sitchensis 'Snake' 2 year graft  $65.00

Sitchensis has never done all that well here, and when we took pity on this straggly half dead snake at Gee’s (I’m a sucker for snakes of all kinds) I did not hold out much hope. After struggling for a few years it has filled back in, at least to the extent snake spruces do fill in, and looks very impressive. Growing along with P. abies 'Virgata' P. abies 'Cranstonii' P. abies monstrosa P. glauca 'Fort Ann' P. engelmannii 'Snake' and Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Skyline' it makes for an alien looking landscape that suits our twisted tastes.

 

Picea wilsonii.............. 2 year graft  $45.00

Chinese spruce in honor of E.H Wilson introduced in 1903 pyramidal in habit with rather short dark green needles.