Ice on Trees and Shrubs

A row of hedging ‘Green Giant’ arborviate with a Canaan fir in the forefront. I had multiple leaders so I fixed it during winter this year since it’s been and still is, incredibly mild:

Canaan fir:

Thuja occidentalis ‘Bodmeri’

Thuja occidentalis ‘Bodmeri’

Thuja ‘Bodmeri’, Canaan fir, ‘Violet Beauregarde’ Picea pungens (ortet) with Green Giant’s in the background:

Canaan fir all fixed for the present time, anyway:


Serbian spruce: Picea omorika with snowload.

Typical Serbian spruce:

Weeping Alaskan Cypress ‘Pendula’ behind Serbian spruce:
Cupressus nootkatensis ‘Pendula’ (the now closed Girard’s Nursery form of Pendula)

Taxodium distichum: Bald Cypress seedling

A Nordmann fir I worked on. Between shoot tip borer and these being incredibly slow-growing for me, they have all been a full-time job. I’m hoping one day a single-leader will develop and vigor will begin:
Abies nordmanniana

Pinus parviflora ‘Cleary’

A Serbian spruce this time that pine tip borer has been praying upon, but now fixed for the current being:

A Nordmann fir. Many of these have created up to 20-leaders when only a single leader tree should be grown:

This deciduous tree is a grafted cultivar of a Bald cypress called ‘Mickelson’ or the TM name put on it “Shawnee Brave”

Picea abies ‘Acrocona’

Canaan fir: Abies phanerolepis (rt.) ‘Green Giant’ Thuja (left)

Picea omorika with ice-load:
Serbian spruce

Serbian spruces

Norway spruce cultivar/Abies nordmanniana ‘Torulosa’ (twisting foliage) :sunny:


Abies x arnoldiana (Abies koreana x Abies veitchii)
fir: Korean x Veitch’s


Picea abies (Norway spruce) ‘Aurea Jakobsen’

Picea abies ‘Elegantissima’
Norway spruce ‘Elegantissima’


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Lovely evergreens.
I wasn’t aware of a Nordmanns spruce, so I guess it’s a fir.
Love the Canaan fir especially…
I can never find them for sale except
at a Christmas tree farm here in KY.

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I think you’re a little tongue twisted there. There’s Norway spruce and there’s Nordmann fir.

:slight_smile: Look for the words in the above postings that reads:

"Nordmann spruce cultivar/Abies nordmanniana "Torulosa’ (twisting foliage)

and see if you meant to post it that way. (It is ‘twisted’ though… :slight_smile:

ps. Yeah, next time I make a mistake…now you’ll probably
razzz me about it. lol

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You just got a Denzel Washington ha-ha out of that.

That is good stuff, man. And, you’re absolutely correct! ha, way too funny it is.

Dax

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nice collection of evergreens. your bald cypress looks like my American larch ( tamarack). it too loses its needles in the winter . turns a beautifull golden yellow in nov. here.

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Nordmann fir I fixed, too:

Oriental spruce
Picea orientalis:

‘Prince of Darkness’ hybrid Beech

Picea omorika ‘Aurea’ - Serbian spruce

Amalanchier (Serviceberry) x alnifolia ‘Autumn Brilliance’

Picea torano. Very rare spruce - seedling.

Cornus (Dogwood) officinalis
Japanese Cornelian cherry



Viburnum dentatum ‘Blue Muffin’ - never pruned

Cupressus nootkatensis ‘Jubilee’
‘Jubilee’ Alaskan cypress


Pinus strobus (White pine) ‘Horsham x Contorta’ (has contored/twisted needles - grows 4-6" a year.)


I’m drawn to the twisted needles. This is a pretty cool shrub/small tree.

Pinus heldreichii
Bosnian pine


A couple Serbian spruces with a Cannan fir at the end

Pinus parviflora ‘Yatsubusa’
‘Yatsubusa’ Japanese White pine


Viburnum burejaecticum - not an exciting plant! boring!
Manchurian viburnum


‘Sparkling Arrow’ Alaskan weeping cypress
Cupressus nootkatenis


A snow-laden Pinus koraiensis ‘Avocadra’
Korean pine cultivar


One of the all-time greatest shrubs for Spring, Summer, & Fall: Viburnum carlesii

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Too hot to grow Larix laricina here. I see very rarely old larches on farmstead. I’ve killed a number of larches on heavy, moist soils.

Dax

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Love your collection, b.t.w. Beautiful with the snow on. Don’t recall if I’ve seen a yellow Serbian spruce except in catalogs.

Do you get any fruit from the “Autumn Brilliance” or do the birds always win?

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They’ve beat me twice or three times in 11-years. It’s a tasty fruit.

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I agree…possibly my most favorite fresh from the tree fruit…better than mulberries and blueberries to my taste. I never get enough to satisfy my urge to eat them!

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I love blueberries. Serviceberries are real similar. Serviceberries are more complex in flavor.

A blueberry pie though kicks its’ behind pretty good. I’m not dissing on Serviceberry pie, it’s good though. Got a bit more crunch from seed.

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Nice looking trees!
Any idea what variety this one may be?
Its my neighbor’s tree and i have considered propagating it. The base of the tree looks like a graft union. Probably hard to tell from the pictures i have.

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Excellent collection of evergreens! I’ve planted many blue spruce and red pine around our property. Also have some small Norway spruce that have to be planted in their permanent homes this spring. We also have 3 Dawn Redwood which have been doing very well so far…the oldest one has been in the ground for about 5 years and is about 10 feet tall. I’m surprised that more people in Northern climates don’t plant Dawn Redwoods in their landscape.

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Beautiful trees Dax. Umbrella pine?

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we have huge forests of them here. they like the wet areas. they change color when everything else has been gone for over a month. nice to walk thru a stand right after the needles fall. like walking on a yellow carpet.

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Hi Preston, that’s Pinus strobus ‘Pendula’ and you have a good view of your neighbor’s. You should pick something else if you’re going to plant a grafted conifer. @Preston Chamaecyparis pisifera outta have something fluffy & having the appearance of weeping. They’ll grow like rockstars for you in KY. They do the same here. Indestructible and bulletproof.

@steveb4 Larches are a favorite of mine for certain. You’re right it was’t my moist soil. My bad. They cooked in summer heat.

Hi @maineorchard, I have a grouping of Dawn Redwood (about a dozen) in a low area on the extreme side of compacted clay. They’re slow but growing OK. For reference I planted these about 8-years I"m going to say and they are reaching 15’ or less… but a solitary specimen I planted was 40’ tall after about the same amount of time in deep & black loam.

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My smaller (6 ft) Dawn redwoods…one is harder to see toward the red garage. These were bare root bought from Fedco back in 2018. They were transplanted last spring to their permanent spot and really did well last summer.

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I’m not able positively to ID it…can you get a closeup of the NEEDLES/FOLIAGE and Post?
Seems to be a pine, but it’s blurry when I try to enlarge the pix to 200%.

I finally found (3) pictures of my now (9) Dawn Redwood Trees. I began with 10 and deer finally took one after 3-years of so of eating it.

2019 Fall Dawn Redwoods

2020 Summer Dawn Redwoods

And I literally removed 99% of the foliage leaving one pretty large nurse branche to correct this one and it literally became fixed. It was to a point where everyone on earth would’ve said it would be impossible to correct what was a vase-shaped tree without a leader into a single leader tree that grew about 4-5’ this year. Here it is:

From my old home in this Dawn Redwood approaching 40’ tall at 10-years. I fibbed a little bit last time (thinking) it was 35-40’ at eight years. What I can tell anyone is that in like year 2 it grew like 6’ and year 3 it grew like 12’. I planted it as a 2-gallon specimen with a trunk maybe a cm across at the root collar. So, these trees are just simply amazing. (photo 2013)

One time I germinated seeds in like mid-Feb. of Dawn Redwoods. I had about a foot tall seedling I planted in dark loam that goes 3-4’ until clay can be seen… and it grew to over 6’ by fall of that year. They’re just amazing.

Dax

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