I'm joining with my pal Anna at Flutter and Hum in posting a Wednesday Vignette. While wandering around my local McLendon Hardware nursery I saw these beauties that had just arrived from Iseli nursery in Boring, Oregon. Website here. The town of Boring was obviously named before Iseli nursery was making beauties like this!
Pinus contorta 'Taylor's Sunburst'
More conifers...
When I see plants like this, I wish there were more space for conifers in my garden! Okay, there's space but it's full of other plants. I've learned that these are not fond of growing in the shade and really need space to strut their stuff. A gardener can't collect everything, right. Well maybe a few miniatures in pots in the pot ghetto area...
Nothing boring about them, especially in the winter!
ReplyDeleteAnd in the spring when they change color and in the fall... Conifers are really cool!
DeleteSpectacular. Once again Peter you seem to know of every nursery around, even in my own neighborhood, even ones I have never heard of. Keen eyes, Mr. Peter! That's what you have :)
ReplyDeleteMust be from eating all those carrots! Iseli is a wholesale grower/nursery. I'd love to go sometime just to see their fab display garden!
DeleteYes, I wish I knew more about conifers myself. I only have a handful. They have a subtle beauty, with new growth often as pretty as flowers.
ReplyDeleteThey are a pretty special group of plants. Unfortunately, I got turned off by the once ubiquitous juniper tam planted parking strips noticed when I first moved here and many dwarf conifers got painted with the same brush in my mind. Fortunately, I've seen the light!
DeleteAwesome. Also that little "blooming" confiner from yesterday's post, from Cornell, that I can't get out of my mind. (I wish you had a name for it, and I wish even more it's a dwarf). Apparently, there are conifers suitable for shade, but we don't have room for everything. Only in minds :-)
ReplyDeleteI'll check on that blooming conifer from Cornell ( I sometimes remember to take pictures of tags as my memory no longer works on its own.) It was already taller than I so it may have been a mature dwarf or an immature giant.
DeleteHah, just posted a comment on FB about heading to Burns Feed Store for a stock tank, and then swinging by Boring Bark while I'm in the neighborhood. Boring Bark has a great conifer display garden & carries many Iseli trees & shrubs. Hoping for a field trip to Iseli one of these days too. Would love to get them on plant lust. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteFunny! I hear that Boring has partnered with a town called Dull in Scotland to create a festival and your governor declares it Dull and Boring day throughout your state.
DeleteAs Patricia says we're scheming to get ourselves to Iseli for a look-see. They've got good stuff!
ReplyDeleteThey have great stuff for sure but are wholesale only I think.
DeleteOh, yes! Field trip for sure! Is that pine as spendy as Chief Joseph? I like it even better.
ReplyDeleteSeeing Iseli would be way cool! No, that pine was around the same price as the other dwarf conifers in two gallon pots that were there, fairly inexpensive and on sale to boot! Earlier this spring, McLendon's had Chief Jo from Iseli and they were about 80 bucks for a two foot specimen (elsewhere around 200.)
DeleteI feel that we too about many of the lovely conifers that are being developed these days.
ReplyDeleteI love conifers. This reminds me there's a nursery specializing in dwarf conifers in Kelso called Kigi Nursery that is open by appointment. I keep meaning to make one...
ReplyDeleteWow! 'Taylor's Sunburst' could give any flowering plant a run for its money.
ReplyDeleteI love that you posted a Wednesday Vignette, even though I didn't get my act together this week. Iseli is an absolute treasure - I love that little Taylor's Sunburst. So very cute! Oh well, I finally posted a vignette of my own: https://flutterandhum.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/wednesday-vignette-there-is-someone-for-everyone/
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