Wow, those all really look like winners Blue. Very nice!

Dan

Can the rest of us share some photos here as well Blue? I mostly have mini's from Coenosiums, but I have some neat ones with some great new growth. Just don't want to step on your toes though without asking. (I'm a BIG guy!)

Will

Help yourself Will. It would be good to see other peeps conifers on this thread that grow an inch per year or less!

Cool, I'll post some in a few days and weeks to come as they finishing popping out. I know some qualify(Wichtel), but I'll aim for my 5-6 slowest growing little guys(girls?).

I'll go with this one which I bought last year during the Poland/Czech Republic trip. It caught my eye.
Labelled picea pungens 'Super Maixner'

I'll go for the following few:
Picea glehnii 'D.J. Dwarf'

Abies balsamea 'W.B. 1'

Pinus mugo 'Super Krejci'

Picea abies 'Cukrak'

A couple more,

Picea abies 'Jana'
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Tsuga canadensis 'Little Joe'
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Picea mariana/glauca 'Blue Planet'
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This thread not so popular then ?

Cryptomeria japonica 'Tenzan'
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abies koreana 'Kohout'

Okay, though not fully awake yet, here are a handful of the smallest conifers I have planted. Some might not be true Picea sitchensis 'Renken'

Abies lasiocarpa 'Siskyou'

Picea abies 'Brno'

Abies lasiocarpa 'Logans Pass'

Abies magnifica var. Shastensis

Picea abies 'Wichtel'

Will

Hats off to my boy Blue and Will. I will post my pics this weekend. Will be out in the yard obviously gardening and taking pics for the rest of the week. I got some real beauties and some very rare material. Cheers !

Love this thread. Thanks to all that have posted photos. Will, where did you get the Abies lasiocarpa 'Siskiyou' from?

Thanks, Dan

Love that abies koreana 'Kohout' -- which of course is Czech for 'Rooster'
(You may recall, some 15 years ago, the comet Kohoutek - little rooster - was visible in the night sky for a while....)

Dan, I bought 'Siskyou' from Bob Fincham last fall I think.

Will- some very nice plants you have there, the only one from the bunch that doesn't stay small is Picea sitchensis 'Renken'.
jaro - abies koreana 'Kohout' is from German collector Jorg Kohout, he is in the south-east near Dresden and not too far from the Czech border, so perhaps the origins for his name are Czech ?

Jaro,

'Kohout' is named after Jörg Kohout Baumschule from eastern Germany.
He is thé specialist in Europe when it comes to witches'brooms
But it's nice to know that it means Rooster.

Stephen, Henk and I visited Jörg Kohout in October 2007.
Henk is seen at this picture watching witches'brooms nametags.
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Edwin, yes I know...have you forgotten I was also there.

Me, Ronald Vermuelen, Jorg Kohout, and Henk van Kempen.
I guess Edwin took the photo?

Yep, I took this picture that day.
We had a very thirsty weather then and as you can see Jörg was a very good host and gives us a half a liter beer so we wouldn't dry out during our endless witches'brooms conversations :^)

Stephen,

I wasn't forgotten that you were also there, I mentioned your name also, I named you first...

Sorry Edwin, my mistake, I thought you were addressing the comment to me!

A photo I took - from the left, Jorg, Ronald, Edwin, and Henk, I wonder what the topic of conversation was ?
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Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Dandy Doug'

Picea abies 'Typner'
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Abies conclor 'Cernocice'
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Picea abies 'Sigi'
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More fantastic minis Blue. I especially like the last two.

Dan

kmanzfive said, Hats off to my boy Blue and Will.

Is that an "Old School" reference? LOL

What do people consider 'true miniatures' to be? I have a number of plants that are usually listed as 'grows less then one inch a year' or 'grows about one inch a year', that are certainly larger/faster growing then many of the ultraminiature varieties above.

Cultivar examples include:

Abies koreana 'Blauer Eskimo'
Abies lasiocarpa 'Alpine Beauty'
Cedrus atlantica 'Mt. St. Catherine'
etc.

I wouldn't want to denigrade the awesome miniatures here with sloppy big brothers!

Will

Will, I regard true miniatures as one inch per year or less, but I'm sure we can afford a bit of leeway

Do you mean like this ? Abies koreana 'Blauer Eskimo'
Just about makes the cut :0)

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Bluespruce,

Nice 'Blauer Eskimo'!
Does is start to make a leader at his right side?

Abies lasiocarpa 'Steven Blue'

Cedrus libani var. atlantica 'Uwe'

Coniferjoy - could be the start of a leader on 'Blauer Eskimo'.
Lost my original plant of 'Steven Blue' and not had a great deal of success grafting a new one.
Had several 'Uwe' over the years and all died, as have many of my small cedars, fungal problems I guess ?

Picea abies 'Fahndrich'

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Abies concolor 'Huskey Pup' - probably not really a mini, but never mind

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Fantastic pictures guys...no miniature Chamaecyparis or Thuja/Platycladus to show us?

Barbara

I'm going to shoot out more photos in the days/weeks to come as we FINALLY have a long stretch of nice warm/hot weather to wake everyone up. This will probably be the shortest gardening season I ever experience as I still have a handful of plants that are showing NO signs of waking up yet.

Yes it is a reference to "Old School"
lol

hello barbara

some photo's of chamaecyparis

Henk

Henk, where is the photo of 'Rayner's Rescue' taken ?

Thanks for the little Chamies Henk!

Now, for those of us not in the loop of popular culture:

"..... probably best known for his role as elderly frat boy Joseph "Blue" Palasky in "Old School," starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn.
In the hit comedy, he was about to wrestle two topless girls but dies of an apparent heart attack from overexcitment. After singing "Dust in the Wind" at Blue's funeral, Ferrell's character calls out in agony: "You're my boy, Blue!"

There are even audio clips if you so desire...

Here is a link that might be useful: Blue, You're My Boy!

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Golden Sprite'

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'White Pygmy'

Picea abies 'Hasin'

Abies lasiocarpa 'Lopalpun'

More once they start waking up.

Has anyone here succeeded in growing a Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Golden Sprite' for a number of years ?
.....the one I got didn't even last a year :-(
Good luck with yours, firefightergardener.

Excellent thread!

Wonder where the Lopalpun name originated?

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Laxa': very nice!
Richard

A couple more for Barbara

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Butterball'
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Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Green Pincushion'
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Can't let this post disappear from the front page! Too many cool plants!

Picea smithiana 'Ballarat'

Picea sitchensis 'Thomas'

Abies lasiocarpa 'Alpine Beauty'

Cedrus atlantica 'St. Mary' or 'Mt. St. Mary' (Thanks Bob!)

Abies koreana 'Silberkugel'

Probably a couple of these are a more like 1.5-2" a year, but I snuck them in!

Once again a nice selection Will, and certainly do not know the Cedrus
'St. Mary', is this a new cultivar, and where does it come from ?

Woops. I continue to lead the league in poorly marked plants. It's Cedrus atlantica 'St. Catherine' or 'Mt. St. Catherine'. I have this plant about 2' from Picea pungens 'St. Mary' but this is still inexcusable! I'll go fix it today!

There's another thing, correct name, Picea pungens 'St. Mary's Broom'

Abies koreana 'Ice Breaker'

Beautiful plant, Sprucebud.

Speaking of abies koreana, I saw a HUGE specimen of abies koreana 'Silberperl' at our local nursery for $250. The thing must have been 3' wide and 2' tall, surely one of the largest specimen of it I've ever seen. It was cool, but alas, who has $250 for a plant that is likely severely rootbound? :(

Richard, where did you get your 'Icebreaker' ?

I bought it from the Horstmann nursery in Germany via mail order. Just checked: I got it at the end of February 2007.