r/conifers

It wasn’t labelled and we have no idea!

I’ve had this Norfolk pine since about February and no matter what I do, it just keeps dying. I keep it indoors, water it weekly, and have moved it from a room with a west-facing window to the corner of a room with and east-facing window. There is some new growth on top, but I can’t tell if the bottom has any chance of improving. I just watered it, that’s why the soil is so dark. It’s started releasing some resin, so I know the plant is already stressed out. Pls help!!!

I went to Crowfoot Nursery today to purchase a coastal redwood, of a blue variety today. Ended up going with Simpson Silver and Steel Blue

10/10 experience, it’s run by a lovely older couple whose passion for trees is evident in the quality of the saplings as well as when they talk about the trees they’re growing.

They also have the most extensive and coolest collection of conifer cultivars I’ve ever seen! Maybe a dozen different types of coastal redwood as well as giant sequoias! There’s a lot of cool atlas cedars, spruces pines and Douglas fir cultivars as well.

The prices are fantastic and if you’re local, by calling ahead you can schedule to visit the nursery in person to pick out your tree and get a good visual example of how mature specimens will look.

https://www.crowfootnursery.com

We planted 16 green emerald thuja trees (~4’ tall) in the spring, south central Indiana. 2 or 3 are looking less full/healthy than the others and I noticed these cone buds on them. We’ve been watering 2–3 times per week, about 20–30 seconds at the base of each tree. Should we be doing something else? Don’t want to lose the stressed trees, but I’m not sure what they need… more water? Just transplant shock and they’ll look healthier next year maybe? Will they even survive that long? I know everyone hates on arborvitae, but these fit the bill for mature size needed, growth rate, and price point.

I did the Mt. Tallac summit trail earlier this month and as I approached the scree field leading to the summit just after the technical end of treelike I saw THIS. I tried to reach out to the silviculturist at Lake Tahoe Basin Mgmt Unit for an ID and have been lurking the gymnosperm database but cannot get an ID because I didn't get a great close up of the branches. Seems like it could be a Foxtail pine? The nearest branches were still 15' overhead! Does anyone know what type of pine this is or if it's a Juniper? ( for spatial reference I am just over 5' tall ) Most photos here are looking southeast or north. The summit is visible right behind the tree (though not in these photos) and so it's dramatically by itself in open country with no other trees near it except what you see about 50ish feet downslope.

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Hi I’m based in the UK and we have three conifer trees in our garden that have been there since before we moved into the house (just over 2 years ago). We had the trees trimmed by a guy who had been maintaining the trees for the previous owners, however what we were left with is what’s pictured, he only did the front half of the trees and explained to us that he’d done this so he didn’t take too much off them in total, which would cause them to die. He also said the front would regrow in the next spring, however as you can see they haven’t.

I am looking for some advice of whether the trees have been badly damaged and if there’s any way for us to ‘fix’ the trees, or whether it is worth (as a last resort) cutting them down (we would plant new ones in place of them)

Planted this as small 1 ft bought from garden center approx 20 yrs ago. I live in EU.

I call it the bird hotel as many birds sleep in it and were also hiding in it during this heatwave , winter etc.

I have arthritis so no gardening possible. Patio gardening is very little. I have trees in pots on patio there from saplings from other trees in my garden. This one in garden never produce any berries but in garden center they said it would ?

If the brown bits are removed will it get new green growth?

Window I took picture from with my tablet , it faces North. Even with severe storm last night , the Juniper Chinensis lost nothing of the brown bits.

Garden is very heavy clay soil. Early on planted willows then planted willow branches that rooted and grow into trees so garden is not the very water logged it was. Other trees in my garden birches , alders, rowans , hazelnuts coppiced all are doing well.

So the two brown ones is bit odd. I do have older gardening books but think to ask here.

Bit of a strange question if there is nothing to do about the brown , and it stay like this.

Is there anything to sort of cover it up a bit? Will some plant grow in it? Like my ivy invaded everywhere in garden but this one it avoids completely.

This year's Korean Pine grafts are starting to break through the wax, alongside an example of a graft in its third season. Both are grafted onto Pinus sylvestris in the field (Ontario, Canada).

We started with 3,500 seedlings and have been selecting the earliest-producing, most vigorous trees to cross-pollinate and clone. Our goal is to shorten the time to seed production.

This immediately grabbed my attention at the nursery where I was just planning on getting some fertilizer and soil 😅

Any care tips? I’m not sure if I want to put it in a pot or in the ground.

First post. My wife bought me this tree for our anniversary when I went to plant it, I noticed it looked like it's leader has been trimmed will this be a problem? Should I return the tree?