Conifers: Araucaria - Cham. obt. | Cham. pis. - Juniperus | Larix - Taxus | Thuja - Tsuga
Grafted Conifers: Abies | Cedrus - Metasequoia | Picea | Pinus alb. - Pinus pum. | Pinus res. - Taxodium | Late Additions
Pinus resinosa 'Fastigiata' 2
year graft $65.00
A narrow upright form of resinosa
Pinus resinosa 'morel' 2
year graft $65.00
Well it doesn’t look much like the mushroom nor does it
taste great fried in butter but it is delectable in it’s
own right, forming a lovely compact green ball in the garden. For some reason
there are relatively few resinosa cultivars, perhaps
it is time for a little broom hunting close to home.
Pinus resinosa 'Sandcastle' 2
year graft $65.00
A witches broom seedling
grown by Waxman in 1988. It is densely upright with tufted dark green needles
and grows about 4” a year.
Pinus strobiformus 'Foxtail' 2
year graft $45.00
A densely needled selection of southwestern white pine
from Talon.
Pinus strobiformus 'Loma Linda 2
year graft $65.00
Long bluish green needles and a rather open dwarf
habit this is from Jerry Morris.
Pinus STROBIFORMUS 'Mary Sweeny' 2
year graft $45.00
A flat round bun with thin long green needles growing
3” a year this is sometimes seen listed as a strobus
cultivar.
Pinus strobus '
An improved weeping white pine, columnar with a
strongly weeping habit.
Pinus strobus 'Anna Fiele' 2
year graft $45.00
A congested globe with pale green needles introduced
by Hatch in 1988
Pinus strobus 'Bennett’s clumpleaf' 2
year graft $65.00
A weird mutation where all five needles in the bundle
are fused into a single fat needle, not to be confused with Pinus
monophylla.
Pinus strobus Bergman’s Variegata 2
year graft $45.00
A dragon eye introduced by Fincham
in 1983 the white pine dragon eyes are a confusing mess but pretty.
Pinus strobus 'Bloomers Dark. Green 2
year graft $45.00
I think this is the same as Bloomers Dark Globe a Vermeulen introduction that may not even be a strobus.
Pinus strobus 'Blue Shag' 2
year graft $45.00
One of Waxman’s many brooms; it has good blue color
and pretty much the same habit of all the other strobus
buns, however I prefer it to minima and nana.
Pinus strobus 'Chippianook' 2
year graft $45.00
Your chimpmunks
not getting enough nookie? Give them Chippianook' it’s like Viagra for the little striped rats, they
will be so busy humping they won’t watch for cats.
Pinus strobus '
A Waxman introduction from a broom found in
Pinus strobus 'Contorta' 2 year graft $45.00
A twisted form found in
Pinus strobus contorta
'Green Twist' 2 year graft $75.00
Chub sent me scions of this, a cool pyramidal plant
with contorted limbs and an irregular habit; the needles are light green.
Pinus strobus 'Contorta HLG' 2
year graft $45.00
Chub sent wood on this; it seems to be fairly slow with
twisted contorted foliage.
Pinus strobus 'diggy' 2 year
graft $45.00
Step 1. buy plant; step 2. diggy
hole; step 3 remove from pot; step 4. remember green
side up.
Pinus strobus 'Dove’s Dwarf' 2
year graft $45.00
A globose semi-dwarf from
Hillside Nursery with beautiful dark green foliage.
Pinus strobus
'fastigiata' 3 year graft $65.00
Fast growing, narrow, upright tree with long and
slender blue-green needles an excellent soft textured conifer.
Pinus
strobus 'Golden Candles' 2 year graft $45.00
A 1985 Waxman selection with golden candles and
foliage forming an upright shrubby plant that is larger than ‘Goldie.’
Pinus strobus 'Green Twist' 2
year graft $45.00
Yet another contorted white pine if you like twisted buns
this one is for you.
Pinus strobus 'Green Shadow' Older $100.00
A Waxman selection from U. Conn.; pyramidal-columnar,
with very dense multi-trunked growth and a remarkable
dark green color that is unusual in strobus.
Pinus
strobus ‘Greg’s Witch’ 2
year graft $45.00
A very dwarf slow growing broom much like minima with
medium green short needles.
Pinus strobus 'Ground Hugger' 2
year graft $45.00
Great for groundcover unless you stake it, then it
turns into one of those annoying tree huggers
Pinus strobus '
An irregular short-needled dwarf found by Ziegenfuss in
Pinus
strobus 'Hortsford's Dwarf' 2
year graft $45.00
A very dense and dwarf bun with rather long needles found
in Vermont by Hortsford and named by Greg Williams
not Humphrey Welsh as we earlier stated, Welsh had nothing to do with it.
Pinus strobus 'Jerico' 2 year graft $45.00
Upright with thin stems and yellowish green needles
from a broom Joe Cesarini found on
Pinus strobus 'KBN variegated' 2
year graft $45.00
A variegated selection from Greg Williams of Kate
Brook Nursery.
Pinus strobus 'Kruger's Liliput’ 2
year graft $45.00
a point mutation of ‘Radiata‘
found at Kruger's Nursery in 1968, making a flattened globe with short thick
bluish-gray needles.
Pinus
strobus 'Louie' 2 year graft $65.00
A fast growing golden form that holds its color all
season long, although it stands out better in winter and does not burn in full
sun once it is established. Introduced by Greg Williams, he considers it the
best of the year round yellows, (at least so far, he has some new stuff in
trials).
Pinus strobus 'Merrimac' 2 year graft $45.00
A choice dwarf introduced by Al Fordham when he was at
the Arnold Arboretum, midway between 'Hortsford's’
and ‘Nana’ in growth rate with silvery blue leaves.
Pinus strobus 'nana' 2
year graft $45.00
The name includes several clones, dwarf but not teeny
tiny a globose type, nana can reach 3 meters at
maturity, from a gardening standpoint they are more or less interchangeable.
Pinus strobus Paul Waxman' 2 year graft $45.00
A dwarf-rounded form with short curved needles often
two toned with blue green and green needles on the same plant.
Pinus
strobus 'Pendula' 2 yr graft
$45.00
Weeping White Pine, this is one of the classic
weepers, a plant that often starts collections; old high staked specimens are
fantastic.
Pinus strobus 'Sea Urchin' 2
year graft $45.00
An extremely dwarf bun, from Sidney Waxman, with short
silvery blue needles, it’s one of the best dwarf strobus.
Pinus strobus 'Short Needle' 2
year graft $45.00
Afraid of long needles, if you are somewhat aichmophobic this may be your plant
Pinus strobus 'Soft Touch' 2 year graft $45.00
A dense flattened mound with short twisted needles
Waxman introduced it in 1985.
Pinus strobus 'Squiggles' 2
year graft $45.00
Found by Andy Duvall, a nice little globose form with bluish twisted needles.
Pinus strobus 'Trautmann' WB 2 year graft $45.00
A broom found by Chris Trautman,
it makes a flattened bun that grows around 4” a year.
Pinus strobus 'Uconn' 2 year graft $45.00
A bright green mound this is yet another of Sydney
Waxman’s many brooms.
Pinus strobus 'Uconn Gold' 2
year graft $45.00
Waxman hunted brooms and raised a lot of seedlings
from broom cones must have found a gold one at some point.
Pinus strobus 'Vercurve' 2
year graft $45.00
Another globose form with
curved needles.
Pinus strobus 'Westin Elf' 2
year graft $45.00
Similar to ‘Densa’ but
perhaps a bit smaller, it is a conical upright plant with congested blue
foliage and grows 1-2” a year.
Pinus strobus 'Wiggles' 2 year graft $45.00
A tight green ball with twisted branches and needles,
one of the most distinctive of the strobus brooms.
Pinus strobus 'Yoda' 2 year graft $65.00
Short and green the force is strong in this one.
Pinus strobus x
ayacahuite 2 year graft $65.00
A cross between eastern and western white pine
Pinus sylvestris 'Albyn Prostrata' 2
year graft $45.00
A prostrate seedling found at Albyn
Nurseries in
Pinus
sylvestris 'Aurea' 2
year graft $65.00
Bright gold in winter, greening out in summer, this is
an upright form, (see the photo in Conifers: The Illustrated Encyclopedia.)
Pinus sylvestris '
An irregular variegated form, it is spectacular in
spring just after the new growth emerges.
Pinus sylvestris 'Bennett compact’ 2
year graft $45.00
An excellent globular form, relatively long bluish
green needles with very short internodes not friendly to grafters, if this were
easier to propagate it would be immensely popular.
Pinus sylvestris
'Beuvronensis' 2 year graft $45.00
A classic French dwarf that dates back to 1891 it is a
bit like Bergman but with longer needles, and easily distinguished by its
tendency to cower or flee if anyone threatens to kick its ass.
Pinus sylvestris 'Edwin Hillier’ 2
year graft $45.00
The correct name for this is now ‘Argentea’
with silvery blue curved needles and reddish stems it was introduced by Hillier
in 1926
Pinus sylvestris 'fastigiata' 2
year graft $45.00
A very narrow upright form of Scotch Pine, growing in a pillar like shape; blue-green needles, it
tends to become bare and untidy with age. This dates to 1856 and originated in
the
Pinus sylvestris '
Chub sent me scions of this,
I believe the original is in the Heartland Collection, growth is compact.
Pinus sylvestris 'glauca nana' 2
year graft $45.00
One of the original old cultivars, annual growth is 4-6” a year
Pinus sylvestris 'globosa viridis' 2
year graft $65.00
A dense growing compact form, it is rather common in
the landscape trade and for good reason.
Pinus
sylvestris 'Gold Coin' 2 year graft $45.00
Rare in cultivation this retains its gold in summer
but positively glows in winter, this gem originated in the
Pinus sylvestris 'Greg's Friend’ 2
year graft $45.00
An irregular plant with creamy white branches
scattered throughout the tree, fast growing with 16” of annual growth.
Pinus sylvestris 'Gregs
Glauca' 2 year graft $45.00
There is a variegated form of this as well (see above)
and these may sport the occasional creamy shoot, plants are upright and fast
growing with good glaucous blue color and stiff thick
needles.
Pinus sylvestris 'Heavy Trunk' 2
year graft $45.00
This is a Girard’s selection, possibly Freudian.
Pinus sylvestris 'Helen
Bergman' 2 year graft $45.00
A rarely offered dwarf not to be confused with ‘Barrie
Bergman’.
Pinus sylvestris 'Helms' 2
year graft $65.00
An irregular mounding form with very short needles and
an open contorted habit, easily transformed into a natural bonsai that is
perfect for rock gardens.
Pinus sylvestris '
Brigitta loves this thing, we have a number of them planted
around the nursery; it is an attractive procumbent form, although ‘Hillside
Eater’ may have been more apropos.
Pinus sylvestris
'Inverleith' 2 year graft $45.00
A variegated form that originated at the RBG
Edinburgh, it shows little variegation most of the year, but is very nice even
as a glaucous upright tree.
Pinus sylvestris 'Jeremy'
2 year graft $45.00
Propagated from a broom found by Reynolds in 1973 at Wellingborough, it is a tiny low spreading mound with short
dark green needles and prominent buds.
Pinus sylvestris 'Little
Ann' 2 year graft $45.00
A witches broom seedling the
original plant is in
Pinus sylvestris 'Mitsch
Weeping' 3 year graft $65.00
A strongly weeping form with large winter buds, it
requires staking, but trained high it is spectacular, I consider it the finest
weeping Scotch Pine.
Pinus sylvestris 'moseri' 2
year graft $45.00
This may in fact be Pinus nigra ‘Moseri’ A
globose plant that turns yellow in winter, it
originated in
Pinus sylvestris '
A distinctive form that showed up at Mt Vernon in
1986.
Pinus sylvestris 'nana' 3
year graft $65.00
There are several plants with the name nana all dating
to the 1700 and 1800 sorting out which is which is probably impossible at this
point. All are classic garden worthy plants.
Pinus
sylvestris 'Pixie' 2 year graft $45.00
An exceptional dwarf globular form introduced by Don
Hatch of Chantry Nursery in
Pinus
sylvestris 'Repens' 2 year graft $65.00
A spreading plant with bluish needles and prominent
very resinous winter buds that was found on the Skyland
farm.
Pinus sylvestris 'Saxitilis' 2
year graft $45.00
Dwarf and slow growing forming a flat-topped bun
without a leader, this is the hillside clone and probably not the same as the Carriére plant.
Pinus sylvestris 'Watereri' 2
year graft $45.00
Semi dwarf with bluish foliage, it’s also known as glauca nana, although it will reach 12’ at maturity forming
a small tree that is wider than high, the mother plant is at Knapp Hill.
Pinus thunbergii...... 2 year graft $65.00
Japanese Black Pine, often seen as windswept gnarled
specimens on Japanese picture postcards, grown lush it is an upright open tree
that burns in midwestern winters.
Pinus thunbergii
‘banshoho’ 2 year graft $45.00
Lime green needles set off the white multiple buds; it
looks like an improved mugo with a bit of shearing.
Pinus thunbergii ‘hardy form’ 2
year graft $45.00
A short-needled hardy form, our scions came from a
tree that was formerly in John Mitch’s collection and now resides in Gee’s
arboretum, undamaged despite several hard winters.
Pinus
thunbergii ‘Oculis Draconis’ 2 year graft $45.00
A fantastic Dragon Eye, sadly it is tender here, it
will live but fries every winter, if you can grow it is perhaps the most
spectacular of all the Dragon Eye Pines
Pinus thunbergii
‘thunderhead’ 3 year graft $65.00
One of the most popular black pines, this is a great
landscape plant, the new candles are spectacular and the plant is hardier than
most thunbergii clones.
Pinus uncinata
'Arabela #27 WB 2 year graft $75.00
A
Pinus uncinata 'Baby#2 wb' 2
year graft $45.00
A short needled Czech selection, 2” or so of annual
growth, it is a compact neat grower.
Pinus uncinata 'Berhal #4 WB' 2
year graft $65.00
Yet another of the Czech brooms 2’x2’ after ten years
a nice little mound.
Pinus uncinata ‘braska’ 2
year graft $45.00
A Czech selection, it forms a small bun that grows
about 2” a year, needles are short and it cones freely at a young age.
Pinus uncinata 'Edelweiss WB' 2
year graft $65.00
Found by Joe Braen of
edelweiss Nursery of Wisconsin, a tight mound growing only an inch or so a
year.
Pinus uncinata 'Grune welle' 2
year graft $65.00
A dwarf irregular plant from a 1989 Horstman plant formerly distributed as uncinata #9
Pinus uncinata 'Maja #26' 2
year graft $45.00
Short needled and tiny this will make a 6” tall green
flattened bun in about ten years.
Pinus uncinata 'Mountain Muffin 2
year graft $45.00
Tight green cow plop, interplant with meadow muffin
for greater impact.
Pinus uncinata '
A witches broom found by Horstman
in 1983 at
Pinus uncinata 'Paradekissen' 2
year graft $65.00
A fantastic plant, discovered in 1983 by Horstman on an exposed gravely slope near Graubünden
Switzerland, the original plant was 50cm high by 70 cm wide and estimated to be
between 400 and 500 years old, obviously this will take a while to get big.
Pinus uncinata ‘popelka
#23’ 2 year graft $65.00
Another Czech selection, needles are only 3/4'” long and
the annual growth is about 1.5” per year.
Pinus uncinata
'Rusalka #18 WB 2 year graft $75.00
A globular plant that grows an inch and a half a year
found in
Pinus uncinata ‘silver
candles’ 2 year graft $45.00
A nice dwarf selection noted for the prominent new
candles, it is irresistible when it is breaking into new spring growth
Pinus uncinata 'Xenie #24 WB' 2
year graft $45.00
If you rub this just right a scantily clad women will
pop out and grant you three wishes.
Pinus virginiana 'Issaqueena' 2
year graft $65.00
A dwarf selection distributed by Larry Stanley, there
is a plant in the Raulston arboretum.
Pinus virginiana ‘Wates
golden’ 3 year graft $45.00
One of my favorite gold conifers, like many it greens
out in summer but when fully colored up it glows.
Pinus wallichiana 'Frosty 2
year graft $65.00
A fast growing plant that appears frosted in winter, these are on strobus understock and have proven hardy here.
Pinus wallichiana ‘Morton Arb’ 2
year graft $45.00
An upright broad crowned form that has proven hardy at
Morton Arb.
Pinus x schwerinii... 2 year graft $45.00
Strobus x wallichiana
it resembles the later but with an even wider crown
Pinus x ‘mercury’...... 2
year graft $45.00
A cross between Pinus griffithii and Pinus parvaflora, fast growing with a horizontal branching habit
and long drooping needles.
Pinus 'J. Morris Ernie' 2 year graft $65.00
This is an incredibly tiny tight bun,
it looks a bit like aristata whatever it is it’s
nice.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'aureovariegata' 2 year graft $45.00
This showed up around 1990, it is variegated but not
stunningly so.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Dandy Doug' 2
year graft $45.00
A tight bun with bluish foliage found by Jerry Morris
near Ft. Collins Colorado. We applaud Jerry’s taste, in my experience, crappy
brooms far outnumber the good ones but he seems to have an unending supply of
excellent brooms.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Delbert Weeping' 2
year graft $45.00
Yet another weeping clone, introduced in 1985.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Dwarf' 2
year graft $45.00
A compact form, there are probably multiple clones
under this name.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Emerald Twist' 2
year graft $45.00
A contorted plant a bit like wells weeping, with
curious corkscrewed branches.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'fastigiata' 2 year graft $45.00
A columnar form, actually it is more of a narrow cone,
but still rather nice.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Fletcheri' 3 year graft $65.00
A handsome dwarf flat-topped spreading form with
gray-green needles originating in the
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'fretzi' 2 year graft $45.00
'Fretzi’ is strange, with
unusual short thick needles it hardly looks like a Douglas fir, it is also on
the tender side so use some care when you pick a spot for it.
Ps. men. 'Glauca' Arrowhead Blue Older
$100.00 2 year
graft $45.00
Our selection, extremely blue in color, it cones
heavily when young, the mother plant has been extensively photographed but as
far as I know none have been published.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'Graceful Grace' 3
year graft $65.00
A glaucous pendula with rather long needles found at a Mason’s
retirement home in Elizabeth town PA. Named by the groundskeeper after his wife
and introduced by Greg Williams and Layne Ziegenfuss.
The following year he found ‘Little Jon’ which he named after his son. The
originals were cut to make room for development.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii '
A gold form from
Pseudotsuga
menziesii '
A globular medium green broom it will grow to a foot
or so after ten years.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'Little jon' 2 year graft $65.00
A nice dwarf it forms a perfect dark green globe that
grows about 2-3 inches a year see the comments under Graceful Grace.
Ps.
menziesii 'Loggerhead' 2 year graft $45.00
A nested form found by a logger as a witches broom
high in a tree near the Columbia River Gorge
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Lombart weeping' 2
year graft $45.00
A weeping form raised from
seed by Pierre Lombarts in 1910.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'Pendula Glauca' 2 year graft $45.00
The common inland weeping form, this is one of several
pendula clones that are widespread in the nursery
trade.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'Prostrata’ 2
year graft $45.00
A flat growing plant from Punnett’s
garden, very distinct and apparently not in the trade, 'Prostrata’
would be invalid under the rules for nomenclature, I’ve considered changing the
name to ‘Punnett’s Lightning Rod’, cleverly hiding
near the ground it remains safely unscathed but attracts bolts to every tree
within a quarter mile.
Pseudotsuga menziesii
'Pumila' Older $100.00 2 year graft $45.00
A shrubby form that originated with Anthony Watterer at Knaphill Nurseries
way back in 1899.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii ‘
An upright growing golden form.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Shorty's Weeping' 2
year graft $45.00
This isn’t short it was found by Shorty
in
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'sinclairs weeping' 2 year graft $65.00
A green weeping form from June Sinclair of Port Ludlow
WA.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'skyline' 2 year graft $45.00
A snake form of Doug Fir, very irregular with a good
blue color, unfortunately it is on the tender side.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'sweet sarah' 2 year graft $45.00
A globular green form that Jerry Morris found near
Pseudotsuga menziesii
'tingle' older $100.00
Another Jerry Morris broom found near the Bighorns in
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Valdstejn' 2
year graft $65.00
A Dutch selection growing 3-4cm per year with a fairly
open habit and dark green needles.
Pseudotsuga menziesii
'Wagin’ Tail' 2 year graft $45.00
A twisted form that is very similar to wells weeping
Ps. menziesii 'Wells
weeping #2' 2 year graft $45.00
A most unusual plant really more contorted than
weeping with curious twisted branchlets that are
reminiscent of Tsuga canadensis
'Hortsford Contorted' but on a much stronger growing
plant.
Pseudotsuga
menziesii 'wycoff’s big Blue' 2
year graft $75.00
An exceptionally good blue form annual growth is about
a foot, the original is in the Harper collection.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Yahoo' 2
year graft $45.00
Looking for Brooms we prefer to drive slowly along
fire lanes however if you must use the net Google works better than Yahoo. and remember, site this carefully otherwise Google will
crush it.
Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Hazel Smith' 2
year graft $45.00
Considered one of the hardiest forms, it is nearly as
tough as Powder blue but with green foliage.
Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Powder Blue' 2
year graft $65.00
This seems to be the hardiest form with fantastic blue
foliage;
taxodium
ascendens ...... Own Root $45.00
Pond cypress, a very graceful plant that unfortunately seldom forms knees, generally not as hardy as distichum; both are separated from Metasequoia
by the alternate leaves.
taxodium
distichum '
A good weeping form this will be a groundcover if it
is not staked.
taxodium
distichum 'fastigiata' 2 year graft $65.00
A columnar form this will eventually reach 150’, just
the thing for the entrance to your favorite swamp.
Taxodium distichum 'Gee Wiz' 2
year graft $65.00
Taxodium distichum 'Peve Minuete' 2
year graft $65.00
A compact upright form, this would make an impressive
bonsai, i wonder if you could get it to knee in a
pan?
taxodium
distichum 'peve yellow' 2 year graft $65.00
Yellow foliage, the plant is not as large as the
species.
taxodium
distichum '
A seedling selection, narrow pyramidal to columnar in
habit, it is fast reaching 15’ in ten years.
taxodium distichum '
A broom found at Secrest in
Wooster Ohio
Conifers: Araucaria - Cham. obt. | Cham. pis. - Juniperus | Larix - Taxus | Thuja - Tsuga
Grafted Conifers: Abies | Cedrus - Metasequoia | Picea | Pinus alb. - Pinus pum. | Pinus res. - Taxodium | Late Additions
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