CONIFER CONES & FLOWERS - Yes flowers!!

Thats really interesting. All my conifers are really small so it will be a few years before I see any cones on them.
I have a great photo that I took at Kew gardens, of some cones that I tapped, as they are normally wind pollinated it shows the pollen grains as a very fine mist.

I shall find it and upload it.

Very interesting BS.....those cones are beautiful and intricate....never taken much notice of them before (blush)....I will now. I did know there were flowers, but had never seen them before.....lovely......thank you :)

lovely pictures BS,and colours are attractive.We had Abies Koreana at our
last house,and absolutely loved it.Unfortunately,the new owners didn't,and within 2 weeks,chopped it down! I was devastated,as it was a lovely tree.There is still a huge gap where it was,so all they can see now,is a big telegraph pole,and lots of telephone wires,! ..lovely.....

Wonderful photographs, Stephen.... :o)

So exciting, I love all of them. We were quite surprsed to see the pink cones on a couple of our Larix for the first time, nice though. We collected some cones from our Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ - which I didnt know until reading your blog, was a female - a few years ago and successfully have grown a couple of trees.

Thanks for your interest everyone.
Dawn - did you mean you didn't know the cones you collected from your Cedrus were female ?

lovely blog bs. love the plant morphology. how can people say conifers are boring?

That's right Blue - I'm a bit naive arent I. I didnt realise there were male and females.

Amazing pictures!

wow so many differant shapes, colours and sizes of cones, i didnt realise there were so many, i love the bright pink ones, lovely pictures blue... thanx for showing these i really enjoyed them ;o))

That was a bit different - and so interesting! Thanks, BS. I enjoyed it, too. :-)

Thanks again everyone :0)
I thought this blog might generate a bit more interest from other members than it did , took me hours to sort out the photos....never mind, win some, loose some :0(

aww we enjoyed it blue, i think its just generally quiet on here at the moment, nothing to do with your blog,, :o)) x

I appreciate the trouble you went to BS :-) Great photos - you know I love trees and its so nice to be educated on conifer propogation.

Fabulous photography. The variety here is stunning. Thanks for showing these. I had one cone on abies koreana 'Verdener Dom' this year and am hoping for many more next year! The Douglas Fir flowers above are something special.

whats the expression 'you can lead a horse to water..'
dont be down cast bs lots of us have really enjoyed this blog.

Fantastic pictures Bluespruce and thanks for all the information. I didn't realize how little I knew about conifers!

Thanks Claire, wasn't expecting anymore comments, but very welcome, and yes there's a lot more to conifers than most people think :0)

I don't log on to GoY every day and when I do, I do a bit of a catch up on blogs I may have missed etc.

I love these plants, they all have something gorgeous about them.
Great photos of them too.

I'm carefully choosing trees for my yard, and aesthetics are so important to me. I appreciate the time you took to share these with us. I learned something new today, thanks!

Fantastic photos, Bluespruce! Thank you for all the information, very interesting.