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identifying our conifers
ideasguy:
Yes, go ahead and post the photos Trish.
trishs:
OK, so 'Name the Conifer' continues ;)
Until I've completed the info for this thread I'm unsure as to the exact number we currently have, so I am listing and numbering them from the house 'outward' ie down the garden. I've just found out that photobucket allows adding text on top of a picture so I am able to number the plants in my pictures (if my brain keeps working anyway!). All the pictures were taken on the same day a couple of weeks ago, but I've since realised that we missed a couple of plants/trees so will catch up with them once the snow has gone.
Conifers #1 and #2 are both sink dwellers, and have been in situ for a frightening length of time. We moved our set of sinks with us when we last moved house back in '86, and they were with us then. #1 is one which I would like to identify; it could well have it's label still buried somewhere in the soil but I am loathe to poke about on the offchance. #2 is, or was once, a fine specimen of Juniperus Communis Compressa. It is showing it's age now and has suffered from having light to one side only. Each winter we have to be sure to knock the snow of it to help stop it splaying apart. Plant #3 is not available in picture form atm as I for some reason didn't bother to photograph it! It too is a Juniperus Communis Compressa but not from such good stock and therefore a slightly larger coarser plant, which also suffers from the same problems as #2.
trishs:
Conifer #4 almost died a (good) few years back, it doesn't seem all that long ago yet it 's probably far more than I imagine. Time gets more and more like that the older I get :( Anyway... this plant , as I recall, suffered badly one long hot summer ( when was that!) and part of it got all brown and crispy and dead. I took the secateurs to it and amputated it's dead area. I didn't really expect it to recover and never really noticed how it did but it has come back into a nice rounded plant. Only now, taking a proper look at the picture, am I suddenly aware that the 'rejuvenated' section is coarser and greener than the original. It looks as though it would benefit from a bit of judicial clipping to keep it in line. I am uncertain as to the name of this conifer. I have a list of plants purchased many years ago and it could well be one of them. I will list these plants in a future post to see if any names seem to fit this or any of the other plants I'm trying to identify.
ideasguy:
No 4 may well be Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Summer Snow'.
I have this plant and its one of my favourite conifers. I clip it every year Trish to keep it at a height no bigger than 3ft x 3ft.
It responds very well to being manicured!
trishs:
--- Quote from: ideasguy on March 25, 2013, 08:40:41 PM ---No 4 may well be Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Summer Snow'.
I have this plant and its one of my favourite conifers. I clip it every year Trish to keep it at a height no bigger than 3ft x 3ft.
It responds very well to being manicured!
--- End quote ---
Thanks George. That isn't on my list of plants purchased, but I do have these three other lawsonianas in my notebook:
Pygmea Argentea - which I think it must have been bought as, despite the colour not being textbook!. Apart from the 'first aid hacking' this has never been cut and dates from 1979.
http://www.kenwithconifernursery.co.uk/dwarf-conifers-d/chamaecyparis-lawsoniana-i-pygmaea-argentea-i-b-d-b
Green Globe
and Ellwoods Pillar, neither of which name seems to fit the bill ;)
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