Awesome stuff, Matt. Thanks for sharing! They'd better get these patented.

-Sam

And the ones from today:

Abies balsamea "Lakewood": Lime green dwarf

Pinus strobus "North Star Gold": sulfur yellow dwarf

Picea glauca "Scenic Shore": A tight blue-green miniature that produces many little cones at the end of it's stems

Picea glauca "N.C.C. 14": Not sure what the name means, but its a nice green miniature

Abies balsamea "Jorma": a miniature with yellow variegated needles scattered throughout

Enjoy!

Millions of acres, wow, what a playground.

Thanks for the pictures causing resultant relish!

Superior selections!

Sha diggity

I may just need a history lesson...

But with all these witches brooms that are found are they given a name if they bring something new and unique to the table? Or is it that every witches broom is unique and needs to be observed to see what characteristics it takes on?

Thanks for sharing the pics! I'm partial to 'Mighty Mushroom!

Drooling! Does he offer plants for trade/sale beyond in-person visits? He clearly has much to offer.

Lucky you!

-Will

You should only cut from good brooms, whaas. Edwin will say all should be propagated but I happen to disagree, somewhat. You can also see the tight growth on those balsam, glauca and mariana. Good looking, & slow. Slow being key.

Dax

I had the honor of meeting Joe at the ACS conference. He is a really passionate dude when it comes to his conifers. I had the luck of placing a winning bid on an Abies balsamaea 'Jorma' during the silent auction. Joe told me that the guy who found the original broom was Finnish and that he named the plant after his dog.

Here's my Jorma

Matt, you said yours is variegated. Mine is a nice powder blue through and through. I really like its irregular and clumpy look. I like that in a miniature conifer.

Will, I don't believe Joe and Debbie are doing any mail order. I suspect that theirs is a smallish kind of mom-n-pop organization. I do, however plan on making my way out to Duluth if I decide on doing next year's ACS conference in Detroit.

Based on Matt's other pics, Edelweiss in definitely a destination nursery.

~Dave

Hey Dave,

Its cool to see another "Jorma"! After touring his gardens for 4 hours I may have messed up on the coloration of "Jorma", I'll look back on my notes.
Like you said, Edelweiss is a fairly small mom-n-pop nursery that carries a variety of trees, shrubs and perennials. Joe collects brooms more as a hobby than as a business. He has an extremely limited amount of each of the grafts that he does himself.
Will, I do know that he often donates a good amount of his young grafts to ACS auctions, so that would be a good option for you to get your hands of some of these. (Though Duluth does have an airport- haha)

To Will and anybody else that is interested,

I spoke to Debbie from Edelweiss and she said that they are able to sell and ship some of their very own small conifers to anybody interested (I assume in the US). The only thing is like as I said before, they have a small amount of each graft available. The link to their website is below which has their contact info. Give them a call to see what's available!

-Matt

It would be helpful to actually supply the link:

Here is a link that might be useful: Edelweiss Nursery