Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Conifers: What are you growing? Part II, 0 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
My collection of conifers is pretty plain, it is..drumroll..

7 Bald Cypresses: that I grew from seed, no treatment of any kind, Fall planting, I threw a small handful of seeds and pulp into a big empty metal popcorn can full of soil, then put a sprinkling of dirt over the top of them. They came up like gangbusters, I was surprised. I had about 75 before the Winter before this one, many didn't make it thru the Winter in pots. Many also I had to dispose of, I believe it came down to picking and choosing back then. And then the ones I picked for their fast growth rate didn't make it thru the Winter!

27 Norway Spruces: MO. dept. of conservation seedlings.
5 Colorado Blue Spruces: Wal-mart clearance seedlings.
13 Eastern White Pines: MO. dept. of conservation seedlings.
51 Austrian Pines: MO. dept. of conservation seedlings and one Wal-mart clearance seedling.
7 Dwarf Alberta Spruces: former Wal-mart "living Christmas trees".
1 Ponderosa Pine: seed packet came with a t-shirt that I purchased from the Arbor Day Lodge gift shop (Neb.), still slowly growing outside, its probably even from a northern/western/high elevation seed source!
5 Eastern Red Cedars: Mostly that I dug up from birds poo-ing.
5 Shortleaf Pines: MO. dept. of conservation seedlings. I had more but I gave some away, and some didn't make it thru last Winter here in pots.

And last but not least: 1 Dwarf Eastern White Pine 'Nana', probably my best evergreen: I paid $35 for it from a nursery over 2 years ago, it was on its side, in an under-sized pot, brown and almost dead, but they wouldn't take less.

Will
p.s. Here is that metal popcorn can of those Taxodium seeds shortly after they started sprouting, and thats probably the first half or so that sprouted!

This message was edited Mar 18, 2006 9:48 AM