Dogulas Fir

Of course yes, that makes sense and explains the cones. Not a usual parking lot tree around here, and so I had assumed Picea. And now I've got a whole bag full of cones which will be of no use for growing spruce understocks.

Thanks Will!

Alex

This post was edited by maple_grove on Sun, Nov 17, 13 at 14:25

brent was surprised at how many i had in my z5 MI garden ...

though he of course.. could speak for himself... were he so inclined ...

they are all .. THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAINs type ...

those OUT OF THIS WORLD cones are truly an ID key .....

ken

Your's doing pretty well then Ken? I sometimes toy around with the thought of investing in a grove or two of Doug trees up at my spruce ranch, but I'm kind of on the fence about them generally in this climate/soil/etc. Of course, any so used would be the Rocky Mt. type.

+oM

Rocky Mts Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. glauca

Resin

That would be they. We've got a few specimens around town. Range from pretty nice trees to real dogs. I'm not 100% convinced our soil pH or some other factor is quite right here in town or surrounding area. But up at the ranch, it would be more to their liking, I suspect.

+oM

" I'm not 100% convinced our soil pH or some other factor is quite right here in town or surrounding area"

It's summer humidity they don't do well in, in the midwest - humid air leaves them very liable to infection by fungal leafcast diseases.

Resin