Picea pungens gallery 2012
One of my favorite spruce species for color and diversity in form.
Picea pungens 'Straw'
Picea pungens 'The Blues'
Picea pungens 'Baby Blue Eyes'
Picea pungens 'Wendy'
Picea pungens 'Donna's Rainbow': one of my favorites
Picea pungens 'Montana Ave'
Picea pungens 'Dietz Prostrate'
Picea pungens 'Glauca Procumbens'
Picea pungens 'Sharp Cheddar'
Picea pungens 'Sharp Cheddar'
Add yours!
Matt
Comments (32)
monkeytreeboy15
11 years agoAwesome stuff!
Just one addition this year:
Picea pungens 'Sunshine' (The last plant at Coenosium Gardens, and it's a terrific color combination of blue-green with golden yellow.)-Sam
coniferjoy
11 years agoPicea pungens 'Bastion'
{{gwi:758729}}Picea pungens 'Kornik 2000'
{{gwi:615819}}Picea pungens 'Mseno'
sluice
11 years agoPicea pungens 'Brynek'
Picea pungens 'Lucretia' (the two blue ones)
Picea pungens 'RM 258'
Picea pungens 'Kenosha'
Picea pungens 'Longneck'
Picea pungens 'Mehkas'
Picea pungens 'Weirdo'
Picea pungens 'Last Find'
firefightergardener
11 years agoBoy does this thread have monster potential. I'll add to the carnage, especially since I am like the 5th poster, I am highly free of spam guilt! :)
Picea pungens 'Green Globe' - Moderate shade so stands a good chance of having some issues. Time will tell.
'Lutea' - Posting this only to show what a lack of sunshine can sometimes do to conifers. The beautiful golden glow normally associated with this plant is gone and it has some spindly spots as well.
'Montana Ave.' - Another good example of lack of sunshine, this broom is normally very tight and blue/green. In moderate shade, it defoliated some inner needles and is very green.
'Victor' - Ditto. New color's nice, older foliage leaving.
'Karina' - Curiously RIGHT NEXT to 'Victor' and seems fine. I think eventually most of my Picea pungens in moderate shade will be OK, especially as I raise the canopy around them instead of it hovering directly over them. It will be a very interesting experiment at least and with grafting friends far and wide, I will be able to keep these cultivars around in some form or another, even if the part-shade approach fails.
'The Blues' - Moderate to HEAVY shade. I'll love it one day when this is sculptured over the hostas.
'Lucretia' - Seems like a wide pyramid, a little older then the ones above.
'Fat Mac' - A block of green so far.
'Spring Ghost' - A white flushing variety(maybe gold in sun), this is in moderate shade and still colors up - and this might prevent the nickname it was given to me by Jason Hupp, 'Spring Ghost - Summer Toast' for it's propensity to burn in hot sun.
-Will
firefightergardener
11 years agoBumped with a few more cultivars. Hopefully some others lurking here show some of their cool Picea pungens.
Girard's Aurea' - This name is probably illegitamate so it should probably be called 'Girard's Golden'. Colors up nicely with the sun, whenever that may be.
'Emerald Cushion'
'Blue Fingers' - a Conifer Kingdom plant.
'The Blues' - One of the best.
-Will
'Colonial Gold' - Gets big with age which means this little specimen is just 'heeled in' for a few years.
severnside
11 years agoLove the P.p 'Mseno' Edwin, I'd like to see that as it grows...
Picea pungens 'Millcreek Broom' confirmed now as a green and silver/blue bicolour, green new growth.
Scott
11 years agoI really like the Picea pungens 'Mseno'. What will the growth rate and shape of that plant? Where can I get one?????????????
monkeytreeboy15
11 years agoI too found the 'Mseno' very pleasing. I am afraid this one isn't available in America, is it?
I really like that bi-colored one also. It is very unique.
-Sam
Simoni
11 years agoNews from Czech Republic
The original broom from Pavel Oralek Picea pungens Brno 2
finder with a broom
first year
The first year broom Picea pungens Sakurovy kvietok from Jan Slama
Original broom with Jan Slama
pleasant spectacle!
L+M Sgardener365
11 years agoPicea pungens 'Wendy'
Picea pungens 'Green Goose'
Picea pungens 'Gold Find'
Picea pungens (Dax's Provisional - Not yet named - seedling)
Picea pungens 'Waldbrunn'
Picea pungens 'W.B. Seedling #402' (Rich Eyre seed grown of Jerry Morris seeds)
Picea pungens 'Regal Chub'
Picea pungens 'Burl'
Dax
rispetto
11 years ago{{gwi:758771}}
P.p. Missi
P. p. Jeddeloh
P.p. Strenice
P.p. Egiptian Piramid
P.p. Oregon Creamconiferjoy
11 years agoRispetto is showing the 'Oregon Cream' as 3th name for what is originally the 'Spring Blast'.
Another name for the smae plant is 'Spring Yellow'...'Egiptian Pyramid' must be written as 'Egyptian Piramid'.
Sam and Ingeborg, unfortunately the 'Mseno' isn't availlable in the U.S. yet, it's only availlable in Europe at this moment...
Simoni, thanks for the pics of the original brooms, I really enjoy such a pics very much!
Will, the 'Blue Fingers' isn't a Picea pungens cultivar, but a cultivar of Picea engelmannii.
Please hit the link and watch all the pics, then you'll see what I mean...Here is a link that might be useful: 'Blue Fingers'
maple_grove_gw
11 years agoThanks for that, Dax. Too bad there's no way to go back and edit what I already posted.
Alex
harv2016
11 years agoLike I said in another post been so busy in the garden haven't been on this site much. But like adding pics to a tread. Picea pungens 'Fastigiate' &'Pendula'
Picea pungens 'Wendy'
Picea pungens 'Aurea'
firefightergardener
11 years ago'Blue Mesa'
'Hermann Naue'
'The Blues'
'Procumbens'
'Coors Blue'
Closeup, VERY blue.
'Mesa Verde'
Picea pungens [Mint Julep] - A broom Jason Hupp is observing still.
'R.H. Montgomery'
'Kutjebo'
'Filip's Blue Compact' - A nice newer Picea pungens I proudly grow.
-Will
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
11 years agoShould have at least one 'St. Mary's Broom'
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'The Blues'
tj
dietzjm
Original Author11 years agoGreat pictures, everyone. Keep adding more!
Picea pungens 'Sester Dwarf'
firefightergardener
11 years agoThank you Clement, corrections made. Picea pungens 'Kutjevo'.
Picea pungens 'Blaukissen'
Picea pungens 'Blue Pearl' - I prefer 'Blaukissen' but still a beautiful, tight plant.
Not known for sure, probably 'Glauca Globosa' on standard.
'Wisconsin Cream'
Ditto, showing more color because it's in full sun.
'Shiloh Weeping' - Prostrate so far but not 'strongly' weeping imo.
'Scottie'
-Will
Fiddlegal08
11 years agoI shared my Picea pungens 'Ruby Teardrops' a couple of months ago, but it's so worthy to be part of the gallery!
dietzjm
Original Author11 years agoPicea pungens 'R. H. Montgomery'
Yet another Picea pungens 'Wisconsin Cream'
firefightergardener
11 years ago'Glauca Procumbens' - Staked originally and now slowly spreading/weeping.
'Sweet Roll' - Interesting look to this small plant.
'Hillside Dwarf'
'Split Rock' - A new planting.
'Blue Pearl' About ten years old now and a glorious little thing.
'Blue Mist' - Seems somewhat upright and dwarf.
-Will
whaas_5a
11 years agoI want to stop on out and take that 'Straw' with me!
'Globosa' This one tends to keep a nice blue on previous year growth as well.
{{gwi:758833}}'St. Joseph's Broom' From Conifer Kingdom
{{gwi:758834}}'Stilton Cheese' From Oriental Garden supply
{{gwi:758835}}sluice
11 years agoGrafted this spring. No new growth this year, but there are buds intact. Looking forward to next spring!
Picea pungens 'Route 109'
dansgrdn