Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Soliciting suggestions for large unusual conifers, 0 by ic_conifers

ic_conifers wrote:
Thanks Rick! I have 'Taylor's Sunburst', Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns' and a few others you mentioned in my yard already. I had planned to buy another 'Taylor's Sunburst' for the farm for sure. I don't plan on having all crazy shapes and forms, just a few. With 70 acres, the vast majority will remain natural. I plan on adding a few more deciduous trees, mainly oaks, as well as the conifers. Right now there is one large rolling pasture of about 22 acres, my husband wants to use about half an acre for wine grapes, and I would like to restore about 5 acres to native prairie. The rest we will keep for grazing sheep and haying. The unusual large conifers will be planted closer to where the home site will be, a smaller flat area that was probably also pasture of about 5 acres.

There is a local nursery that has a fairly good selection of conifers. Around Mother's Day and Father's Day they have "Buy one tree get the other 1/2 off" specials. They never extend the special to small slow growing conifers, which they count as "shrubs". Hubby and I plan on buying a few large conifers and fruit trees (his passion, he wants to plant an orchard) each year to add to the property. I also really like Song Sparrow and they have a few larger growing selections each year.

Here is a picture of the edge of woods which surround the large pasture.