Albers Vista Gardens is a garden to the west of Seattle, Washington, containg a diverse variety of collectible and rare specimen plants. I have the privilege of working in this garden, and I was taking some pictures for the new garden website (posted at the end of this message), and I decided to share this exciting collection of conifers with you!!
Abies alba 'Pyramidalis'
[{{gwi:682374}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2291.jpg)
Abies alba 'Columnaris' (possibly the same as 'Pyramidalis')
[{{gwi:682375}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2262.jpg)
Abies amabilis 'Compacta'
[{{gwi:682382}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2174.jpg)
Abies balsamea 'Nana'
[{{gwi:682388}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2254.jpg)
Abies balsamea 'Old Ridge' (waiting for the white growth to start pushing. needs some shade to protect from burning)
[{{gwi:682392}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2197.jpg)
Abies cephalonica 'Meyer's Dwarf'
[{{gwi:682394}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2194.jpg)
Abies cilicica
[{{gwi:682395}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2188.jpg)
Abies fargesii 'Heafort'
[{{gwi:682401}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2166.jpg)
Abies fraseri 'Blue Bonnet'
[{{gwi:612025}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2216.jpg)
Abies grandis 'Van Dedem's Dwarf'
[{{gwi:682403}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2246.jpg)
Abies koreana 'Aurea'
[{{gwi:682405}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2253.jpg)
Abies koreana 'Gelbbunt' (beautiful male flowers)
[{{gwi:671253}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2154.jpg)
Abies lasiocarpa 'Duflon' (tiny plant at least 5 years old)
[{{gwi:682406}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2150.jpg)
Abies magnifica 'Mt. Si' (pen for size)
[{{gwi:682407}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2155.jpg)
Abies nebrodensis 'Sicilian Gold' (a very prized tree)
[{{gwi:682411}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2201.jpg)
close\-up of the beautiful gold\-tipped foliage
[{{gwi:613391}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2204.jpg)
Abies nordmanniana 'Golden Spreader' (still need to remove the understock from this one)
[{{gwi:682413}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2200.jpg)
Abies numidica 'Drath' or 'Selection Drath'
[{{gwi:682414}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2295.jpg)
Abies pindrow (very long needles on this fir)
[{{gwi:682419}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2183.jpg)
[{{gwi:682423}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2184.jpg)
Abies pinsapo 'Glauca'
[{{gwi:615611}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2179.jpg)
Abies pinsapo 'Tuarek'
[{{gwi:682430}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2151.jpg)
Abies procera 'Blaue Hexe'
[{{gwi:682433}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2243.jpg)
Abies procera 'Robenek'
[{{gwi:682434}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2211.jpg)
Abies recurvata var. ernestii
[{{gwi:682439}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2206.jpg)
[{{gwi:682443}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2207.jpg)
Abies sibirica 'Liptovsky Hradok'
[{{gwi:682444}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2160.jpg)
Abies veitchii 'Heddergott'
[{{gwi:617743}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2168.jpg)
Abies veitchii 'Rumburk'
[{{gwi:682445}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2210.jpg)
Abies x borisii\-regis 'J.K. Greece' (A. alba x A. cephalonica)
[{{gwi:682447}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2156.jpg)
Athrotaxis x laxifolia (A. cupressoides x A. selaginoides)
[{{gwi:682449}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2231.jpg)
Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' (an old stand\-by)
[{{gwi:682451}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2255.jpg)
Cedrus deodara 'Bush's Electra'
[{{gwi:612600}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2220.jpg)
[{{gwi:612601}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2221.jpg)
Cedrus deodara 'Cream Puff'
[{{gwi:682455}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2185.jpg)
Cedrus deodara 'Hibernal'
[{{gwi:612598}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0998.jpg)
Cedrus deodara 'Prostrate Beauty'
[{{gwi:682459}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2189.jpg)
Cedrus libani 'Green Prince'
[{{gwi:682462}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2251.jpg)
[{{gwi:682465}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2158.jpg)
Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata'
[{{gwi:682467}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2192.jpg)
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Baldwin Variegated'
[{{gwi:682469}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2199.jpg)
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Moonlight Lace'
[{{gwi:682472}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2212.jpg)
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Saffron Spray'
[{{gwi:682475}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2236.jpg)
[{{gwi:682478}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2235.jpg)
Cryptomeria japonica 'Araucarioides'
[{{gwi:678619}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2176.jpg)
Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon'
[{{gwi:666744}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2288.jpg)
Cupressus abramsiana ssp. opleri
[{{gwi:682482}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2157.jpg)
Cupressus arizonica 'Blue Ice'
[{{gwi:682485}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2275.jpg)
Cupressus duclouxiana
[{{gwi:682488}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2180.jpg)
Cupressus macrocarpa 'Fine Gold'
[{{gwi:682491}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2186.jpg)
Cupressus macrocarpa 'Saligna Aurea'
[{{gwi:682494}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2285.jpg)
[{{gwi:682497}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2284.jpg)
Fitzroya cupressoides
[{{gwi:613405}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2191.jpg)
Juniperus chinensis
[{{gwi:682501}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2276.jpg)
Juniperus rigida
[{{gwi:682503}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2230.jpg)
Larix gmelinii 'Dortmund'
[{{gwi:682506}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2152.jpg)
Larix kaempferi 'Diana'
[{{gwi:682509}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2232.jpg)
Larix kaempferi 'Paper Lanterns'
[{{gwi:682511}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2170.jpg)
Larix laricina 'Blue Sparkler'
[{{gwi:682513}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2227.jpg)
some young cones showing
[{{gwi:682515}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2228.jpg)
Larix laricina 'Newport Beauty'
[{{gwi:682517}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2215.jpg)
Phyllocladus alpinus
[{{gwi:613383}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2258.jpg)
[{{gwi:678934}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2259.jpg)
Picea abies 'Brno' (yes, those are all buds!)
[{{gwi:673897}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2241.jpg)
Picea abies 'Gold Drift' (suffered some burning in the full sun, but it should make a full recovery in its new, more shady location)
[{{gwi:682521}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2205.jpg)
Picea abies 'Pusch'
[{{gwi:682523}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2242.jpg)
Picea abies 'Tufty'
[{{gwi:682525}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2214.jpg)
Picea breweriana 'Emerald Midget'
[{{gwi:682527}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2213.jpg)
Picea engelmannii 'Bush's Lace' (largest specimen I've ever seen)
[{{gwi:682529}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2229.jpg)
Picea glehnii 'Chitosemaru'
[{{gwi:682530}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2240.jpg)
Picea glauca 'Goldilocks'
[{{gwi:682531}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2159.jpg)
Picea glauca 'Palecek' (means small thumb in Czech)
[{{gwi:599435}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2208.jpg)
Picea glauca 'Pixie Dust'
[{{gwi:599434}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2292.jpg)
Picea jezoensis 'Howell's Dwarf'
[{{gwi:682533}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2165.jpg)
Picea mariana 'Blue Teardrop'
[{{gwi:682535}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2153.jpg)
Picea smithiana 'Ballarat'
[{{gwi:682537}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2169.jpg)
Pinus aristata 'Silver Heels' (new from Finchams this year)
[{{gwi:661831}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2218.jpg)
Pinus banksiana 'Chippewa'
[{{gwi:682539}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2161.jpg)
Pinus cembra 'Stricta'
[{{gwi:682541}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2162.jpg)
Pinus contorta var. latifolia 'Chief Joseph' (just starting to come out of the bright gold color)
[{{gwi:682542}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2182.jpg)
[{{gwi:682544}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2181.jpg)
Pinus densiflora 'Golden Ghost'
[{{gwi:682546}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2263.jpg)
[{{gwi:682547}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2264.jpg)
Pinus heldreichii var. leucodermis 'Smidtii' or 'Smidt'
[{{gwi:682548}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2247.jpg)
Pinus longaeva 'Sherwood Compact'
[{{gwi:661830}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2172.jpg)
Pinus mugo 'Amber Gold'
[{{gwi:682549}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2250.jpg)
Pinus mugo 'Carsten's Wintergold'
[{{gwi:682550}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2248.jpg)
Pinus parviflora 'Aoi'
[{{gwi:599873}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2175.jpg)
Pinus parviflora 'Blue Angel'
[{{gwi:599876}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2178.jpg)
Pinus parviflora 'Ogon'
[{{gwi:599877}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2222.jpg)
Pinus parviflora 'Ogon Janome'
[{{gwi:599878}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2187.jpg)
Pinus parviflora 'Tanima no Yuki' (means valley of the snow in Japanese, probably named such because of its white needles)
[{{gwi:682551}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2196.jpg)
love the pink candles on this one
[{{gwi:599879}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2195.jpg)
Pinus peuce 'Aureovariegata'
[{{gwi:682552}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0732.jpg)
[{{gwi:682553}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_0733.jpg)
Pinus pinea 'Montreaux'
[{{gwi:682554}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2217.jpg)
Pinus pumila 'Blue Dwarf' some small red male flowers are showing near the top
[{{gwi:671254}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2223.jpg)
my attempt at a close\-up
[{{gwi:682555}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2224.jpg)
Pinus strobiformis 'Loma Linda'
[{{gwi:682556}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2173.jpg)
Pinus strobus 'Horsford' or 'Horsford's Dwarf'
[{{gwi:682557}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2225.jpg)
Pinus sylvestris 'Pixie'
[{{gwi:682558}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2289.jpg)
Pinus thunbergii 'Thunderhead'
[{{gwi:611846}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2249.jpg)
Pinus uncinata 'Jezek'
[{{gwi:611035}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2219.jpg)
Pinus wallichiana 'Nana'
[{{gwi:682559}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2297.jpg)
Pseudolarix amabilis (not much to look at right now, but it's a big tree, anyway)
[{{gwi:682560}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2260.jpg)
Sciadopitys verticillata 'Sternschnuppe' (name means shooting star in German. this cultivar was apparently derived from irradiated seed in Germany. needles grow together in groups of two)
[{{gwi:682561}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2193.jpg)
Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Blauer Eichzwerg'
[{{gwi:682562}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2171.jpg)
Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls'
[{{gwi:613387}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2233.jpg)
Taxus baccata 'Standishii'
[{{gwi:682563}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2209.jpg)
Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Frost'
[{{gwi:610171}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2294.jpg)
Thuja occidentalis 'Teddy'
[{{gwi:610172}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2273.jpg)
Thuja plicata 'Cuprea'
[{{gwi:610173}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2256.jpg)
Thuja plicata 'Stoneham Gold'
[{{gwi:610174}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2261.jpg)
Thujopsis dolabrata 'Nana'
[{{gwi:682566}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2296.jpg)
Tsuga canadensis 'Betty Rose' (waiting for the white growth to start pushing)
[{{gwi:682568}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2198.jpg)
Tsuga canadensis 'Gentsch White' (largest specimen I've ever seen!)
[{{gwi:682570}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2226.jpg)
Tsuga diversifolia 'Gracilis'
[{{gwi:682571}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2164.jpg)
Tsuga dumosa (yunnanensis) (yellow male pollen cones)
[{{gwi:682573}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2177.jpg)
finally, the view from the garden:
[{{gwi:682575}}](http://s776.photobucket.com/albums/yy43/sam-pratt/?action=view¤t=IMG_2287.jpg)
Hope you enjoyed!
\-Sam
Here is a link that might be useful: [Albers Vista Gardens](http://www.albersvistagardens.org)
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