ooohhh

i think i recall the rest of the story..

ken

some form of weeping larch I nabbed. It was unlabeled.

cedrus atlantica horstman

What happened? That is one nice looking parviflora.
AL

cedrus deodara snow sprite

cedrus deodara prostrate beauty

you better start taking notes on the latin names.. because our chief enforcer is on his way ... lol ...

a closeup of the Larix.. will get you a decision on decidua vs kampheri ... though i will lean toward the later ... [even if i did spell it wrong.. lol] .... something about pink stems ... but we might need to wait until spring extension for such.. unless you have an old cone .....

whats the whitish binding on the arnold plant????
ken

cedrus deodara electric blue line for privacy in a few years

just another view

metasequoia glyptostroboides ogon planted in november

pinus parviflora goldilocks

pinus parviflora tani mani uko (sp?)

sciadopitys verticillata picola

Pinus parviflora 'Tanima-no-yuki' is the correct way to spell the name of this beautiful pine!

Excellent pictures, btw.

-Sam

cupressus glabra blue ice and pinus thundbergii

@alley cat, it started dying branch by branch, the rest of the forum has told me to shovel prune it this spring.
@ken, what binding? I don't see anything on the arnold arboretum. And you are probably correct on the larix, it is a very narrow grower, and I hope it stays that way.
@monkeytree boy, thank you!

"you better start taking notes on the latin names.. because our chief enforcer is on his way ... lol"

Well, here I'm.... :0)

Keef, conifer names do consist out of a genus, a species and a cultivar name.
You write al your one's just as a row of names, which isn't the way it supposed to be...
Let me help you for a next time:
cedrus deodara snow sprite
Must be written as:
Cedrus (genus, written with a capital mark)
deodara (species)
'Snow Sprite' (cultivar, written with a capital mark)
So the correct way to write it is:
Cedrus deodara 'Snow Sprite'

Some name corrections:
Pinus parviflora 'Arnold's Arbooretum'
Arbooretum = Arboretum

Cedrus atlantica 'Horstman'
'Horstman' = 'Horstmann'

Cedrus deodara 'Electric Blue'
'Electric Blue' = 'Bush's Electra'

Pinus parviflora 'Goldilocks'
'Goldilocks' = 'Tenyzu-kasu'

Pinus thundbergii
thundbergii = thunbergii

= means "must be written as"

The name of your weeping Larch is
Larix kaempferi 'Pendula'

I hope that I helped you with this info...

Thank you very much for your nice pictures of your wonderful garden!

now.. may i please suggest ....

that you use a photo name protocol ....

so when you pull the pic off your hard drive.. the name comes with it ...

so my camera is set.. to upload pix to my hard drive with the date taken.. and a random sequential number... such as:

021513 001 [i lop off the DCS blather]

and if i snap a second pic of the same.. its :

021513 002

i then add the name as Joy notes .. so the pic.. as stored on my computer is:

Cedrus deodara 'Snow Sprite' 021513 001
Cedrus deodara 'Snow Sprite' 021513 002 ... etc ...

and then.. on your hard drive.. with me so far.. lol ... you make a folder named: Conifers ... and sub folders with each species ... so when you put your Cedrus into the Cedrus folder.. you will have every pic.. from every year.. of the given plant ... in date order ...

and when you find it on your hard drive.. you COPY the name.. and paste it in your post ...

and then.. and this is the beauty of it.. Joy will leave you alone.. lol ...

you may well figure something out.. you are obviously hooked on the heroin we call conifers .... and we are great enablers .... so now is the time.. to figure out a method ...

ken

ps: first pic.. looks like an aluminum can right at ground level on the trunk .. i am sure its not.. just looks like it.. or tree tape.. or just my poor old eyes ... you know about root flares????

Thanks for the naming tip Ken. As far as the root flare, you mean where the trunk meets the first root, correct? After this picture was taken, I used a three pronged tool and scraped away a bit of soil so that I think it ended up properly. And the silver, I believe, is just the trunk of the tree. At least as far as I know there is nothing there. And as far as our addiction to conifers, they are actually the least of my problems. Most of my plant addiction are in trees.... conifers just happen to fall as the focal point of that when I'm starving for a fix in winter.

all conifers are trees...

not all trees are conifers ...

mull that for a while.. lol

ken