Visit to Oregon Garden conifers

We recently saw this lovely young (ten years) garden in Silverton, Oregon while on vacation. There were many interesting conifers and I took a lot of pictures for inspiration and garden planning. I'll share a few in this thread.

Sign is hard to read on this one. It is Tsuga heterophylla 'Thorsen's Weeping'

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Juniperus pingii

Cryptomeria japonica 'Knaptonensis'

Cupressus glabra 'Raywood's weeping'

To give you the feel of the garden...

This one is so diminutive! Picea abies 'Dan's Dwarf'

I, too, have been several times to Oregon Gardens. I love the conifer section and could set up camp there, if they'd let me. Thanks for the tour!

But then I took a closer look. Is this a private garden?

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I love conifer gardens, so I appreciate the photo tour of Oregon Gardens.
My effort at planting one is a work in progress.
The only places in my yard sunny enough for conifers is down by the road.
I have 3 fairly large conifer berms. Here's the newest one, about 5 yrs old.

But unlike the pros, given my limited space and the fact that I've never seen a dwarf conifer that I could live without, mine are planted way too close together, so it ends up looking like a dwarf conifer jungle. Here's one of the older plantings where the plants are duking it out with each other.

But oh so pretty!

Very nice, Weerobin. You can always move some in the older beds. I read a book on conifers awhile ago where the guy was saying we are generally way too timid about moving established plants. He would dig around the plant one year, move it the next (to give severed roots time to develop new rootlets). I agree with you that dwarf conifers are hard to resist. I took many, many more pictures than I posted here. If I had my way, I'd convert most of our lawn to conifer beds.

Although I live only about an hour's drive away, I haven't visited the Oregon Gardens since it was about 3 years old.

I can see that it is definitely time to make another trip down there.

Thanks for posting!

nice granite any more shots?

Sure, I can post a few more--beats paying bills, which is what I'm supposed to be doing! This one is Bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)

This is Picea pungens Glauca Prostrata

Several named trees in this shot. The one on the right that is obscured is Abies koreana Cis, I'm pretty sure.

very nice - i have a daisy white and my wife comments on it every spring - soft spot for alberta spruces here