Check out this unusual Ginkgo

Never heard of this one before but picked it up this weekend to add to my Ginkgo collection. 'Mutant Weeper'. The leaves are almost like needles. Pretty cool, huh?

Grotesque!

Resin

While I can't comment because I haven't seen the whole tree (not sure i want to), I get maples that look like this when Brian (fellow who farms my fields) sprays chemicals to kill the broadleaves. My trees always recover. Hope your's does to. :)

It is good that some collect odd forms of plants, and wonderful if you have the room to collect deviant trees. All this leads to diversity and tolerance of oddballs like post on here. Still, how unnatural does it get before somebody gets locked up?

I think that is pretty cool. I like ginkgo varieties, but think my favorites are the ones that have traditional shaped ginkgo leaves. Maybe it is because I like the arts & crafts style of architecture and they were heavy on the ginkgo on their ornamentation.

Dybbuk, do any of your neighbors ask about your plants?

Bill

They just think I'm weird. Once in a while I find someone with curiosity and then I overwhelm them with my oddities. I think they're sorry they stopped by 'cuz I don't stop talking about them. I've got 10 different kinds of Ginkgos and love every variation. When I was growing up I only knew of one type. Every time I turn around there's a new one.

"They just think I'm weird" and we all on DG KNOW you're weird. (j/k!)

I couldn't resist! hehe :-)

Guilty as charged....

Dybbuk I would love to visit you Arboretum 100 years from now. The forests would be an experience and the autumns would be breathtaking. Stop teasing us who have only 3 acres to grow trees. How you can grow 10 Ginkos is a big hunk of America. Keep it up! And keep showing the oddities. Thanks Steve.

Saw this one for the first time last week and was very excited:

Ginkgo biloba 'Elmswood' -

I want one? A Ginko without laterals is ugly come on. I love the shape of the old Ginkos.

I don't know, I think it's cool. I'm on a columnar kick right now!

What is up then with the top 3 laterals? Is it reverting?

Good point Willis. Hopefully. LOL

Elmswood is bad-man.

Latro!

lol, from a distance ( the small picture) the tree sort of looks like some skinny snowman with those little stick arms sticking out. I have to say that I don't get either of these ginkos lol, I really love the regular ginko leaves...so much so that I keep one in a large pot on the deck. No room to plant it in the ground, but I get to see it everyday

Well then you probably wouldn't like this narrow Yew either. I just like this stuff, what can I/we say. Check it out anyway.

Taxus x media 'Bean Pole'

Dax

Well....... I see my property as a picture. I like all different shapes and colors in the landscape. I like vertical lines in my pictures. Everyone has they're idea of cool and or beautiful!

Here is a photo of my Taxus media Beanpole. It is 8 years and has three leaders instead of only one.

Donna

Cool I like how it fans out at the top!

Mine has a yellow/golden sport on it right now. Hopefully it will stay stable. Brand new - so I gotta watch it for a few years and see what happens after I start propagating from it (assuming it holds the golden coloration 'on that new branch') - watch any new propagated ones for several years more and make sure they don't revert (back to green)- but, it looks to be kind of exciting here, at the moment.

Dax

Dax I like the columnar Yew. That would be fun when it gets bigger with some trimming into a shape of say: A bowie knife, a spyglass, a ships mast with a sail trimmed out of a planted next to it potentilla. LOL
Donna I like yours also. Maybe a trellis shaped plant with clematis climbing the plant.

You bet Sofer. Plants like this are designed to be in flower beds or other beds where plants can be placed right up next to a plant such as this Taxus.

All 'you' need, is some antique yard "junk" as I call it, and you could have your sailboat right next to a big rusty anchor sitting in your yard, next to an old toilet used as a planter! Even better yet (drumroll) your 'sailboat' planted in a bathtub! Now you got a boat with mass and sail! lol

Thanks,

Maybe I'll post a photo of that golden sport later.

Dax

P.s. How's this imagery effect you? Tall and narrow plant in center is:
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Green Arrow' - This is why I like plants such as 'Bean Pole' to 'break up' all the other shapes, colors, textures, etc. Plus some huckleberries... could be your backyard Sofer! No taste, man...Doesn't like the 'Elmswood' Ginkgo - what a stab! lol

War on! You bring your little dingy bathtub, spirea, Bean Pole to the battle... I'll bring my Bean Pole and Kayak and see who's boat is still floating! Latro Brother Rocky Mountain Man...(to be continued - or not!)

P.s. don't forget to save me some Ponderosa Pine seed:) Thanks...

I have many Ponderosa seedlings to be collected this fall. Too dry now. Dax that last photo is 'WOW' You conifer types are the best. I want to see a winter snow photo of your entire garden this winter. Spectacular. Hey I have spent 20 years in a sea kayak Eddieline Raven and have paddled many a mile on the pacific ocean off Vancouver Island. I would take that many places I wouldn't my sailboat. Right on.
Great Ideas a nautical garden made up of Taxus with a bow and stern of a kayak protruding from the plant with the bow up. Using a clematis (white) underneath making a breaking wave with Anagalis Sky Blue underneath the taxus. Oh and a Whale spouting behind trimmed out of a russian olive with a pampas grass behind to make the spout.

And a partrige in a pear tree!

Yah brother - "Snow" - we got the climate!

See you later.

Dax

dybbuk-
Where did you find that ginkgo? Any pictures of the whole plant?

I got it in Woodstock, IL at Rich's Foxwillow Pines. It is a brand new introduction and all the plants were small. It has only the one branch as I pruned it to shape it so the pic you're seeing is about the whole thing. It's sending out new leaves continually this year. They look like alien fingers.

I see you have a 'Summer Chocolate'. I have one too. People ask all the time what it is. Mine was set up to bloom this year but all the buds slowly fell off :(

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Here's a pic of the full plant after his "haircut" and staking. I believe it's going to be like Ginkgo 'tubiformis' where it will have both kinds of leaves (odd and more normal). It seems that the leaves that come from the woody stems were more Ginkgo-like. The new juvenile leaves are the wackos. I look forward to seeing what this tree will do in the future.

Wow, I like it even better with the full picture. It's not listed on their website. Must have cost a pretty penny.

I think it was $85. Pricey but very cool....