Yippeee-aye-o-kye-ay!

Thanks, Nate.

tj

Thanks TJ!

Cheyenne has a population of 60,000 and Frontier Days draws 200,000.

Here is a juniper and pine windbreak at the Botanic Gardens.
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Row of juniper in the windbreak.
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Columnar Swedish Aspen
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Two more Woodward junipers
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One of their ponderosa pines has a nice broom
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Pinus ponderosa broom
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From the Botanic Gardens, we headed west of town out to the High Plains Arboretum

Here is an old picture of the high plains greenhouse from picasa.
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Same building today.
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Pine, Juniper, Spruce
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Juniperus scopulorum 'Woodward'
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Looks like it's recovering from deer browse
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Lath house
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From the High Plains Arboretum, we continued west to Laramie and then on to the Snowy Range
Much pine beetle kill amongst the Pinus contorta. The flowers are Fireweed.
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Alpine lake at Snowy Range
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Abies lasiocarpa cones
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Pond, with abies lasiocarpa, pinus contorta, picea engelmannii
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Alpine meadow at dusk, abies lasiocarpa and picea engelmannii
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Nice, nice & nice!
Thanks for these pics, Nate!
You found another broom of Pinus ponderosa!
Did you also found a broom at Laramie or at the Snowy Range?

Thanks Edwin!

A moose enjoying the salix.
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Mama moose and baby
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Pseudotsuga menziesii broom
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P. menziesii broom
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Pinus ponderosa, it looked like a gigantic bonsai
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View into the canopy
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More scenery
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P. menziesii broom
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At first this looked like a broom on P. flexilis
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On closer inspection, it turned out to be an Arceuthobium infection
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A nice ponderosa broom
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Ponderosa broom!
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Ponderosa snag
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Trunk detail on snag
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Pinus flexilis
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Hi Nate,
your any trip = new amazing WB.....congratulations
L+M S

Nate, thanks for your additional pics.
You showed us another great adventure with a successful job in finding new witchesbrooms.

That "gigantic bonsai" form of Pinus ponderosa looks like a very special one.
I like it's look very much!
I'm wondering if grafted specimens of this one will show the same characteristics...

Thanks L+M S, and Edwin.

That is a good question about the ponderosa, might be worth a try to propagate this one.

Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii, near Laramie River
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On the way home we stopped by the Gardens on Spring Creek in Ft. Collins.
Sequoiadendron giganteum.
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Nate,
I found a european friend for you with similar eyes for the nature and conifers. He is Josef Schneider.
Zsolt