Blogs on conifers

Cuddly Conifers

This is a short article I wrote for the British Conifer Society Journal, and appears in Spring 2010, No. 14. So no copyright...

A COLLAGE OF CONIFEROUS FOLIAGE

Conifers are probably the most diverse group of plants on the planet. The following photographs in this blog show just a...

LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW

Look through any window-what do you see (showing my age now I guess ?) In my case as I was in the middle of my 'Conifer collections...

SOME EUROPEAN CONIFER COLLECTIONS - part 1

Two years ago almost to the day, I was fortunate to join three other conifer collector friends from Holland for what was...

NATIONAL CONIFER WEEK

It will be National Conifer Week from 3rd-11th October 2009 Hello peeps, I'm posting this because a previous blog about National...

FOXHOLLOW GARDEN - and some colourful conifer gems

Foxhollow Garden is a garden devoted to the collecting, growing, and propagation of mainly dwarf and ornamental conifers,...

Dwarf & Ornamental Conifers - a closer look

It seems that conifers are getting a bad press once again. The guilty party this time was the recent Gardeners World' programme...

WITCHES' BROOMS EXPLAINED - a personal view

Witches' brooms occur on many different woody plant species, especially conifers. They are mutations that consist of tightly...

GINKGO - classification

Ginkgo biloba is no longer classified as a conifer, it's claim to such was always a bit tenuous. It is unique, niether a...