It's a pruned Taxodium distichum 'Peve Minaret'. Dave clips it annually.

Doing some conifer grafting this winter, Dave, not much though. It could sound ridiculous but I hope I find enough scions for my rootstocks. I have mostly sylvestris and hardly any soft pine or spruce. Have a flat of firs though and a flat of sylvestris I'll assume.

Dax

Thanks Dax; good luck on your conifer grafting, and search for more scions for rootstocks. I always like your thoroughness. Cheers,

Just sent an email now... working on it.

Cheers Seattle,

Dax

My goodness Dave, What a great photo, of your amazing gardens! Gota love that bruns...one of my favorites...

Al

Down load to desktop. That is the best 'Pendula Bruns' photo. What a beaut.

Forgot to ask "Is that "skylands" behind your beautiful "pendula bruns"?" Because it's one of the healthy and lush specimen too; for a home garden, arboretum, or pay to visit garden too. WOW and breathtaking; davesconifer is all I have to say, midas and magic touch gardener. Cheers,

Yes, 'Skylands' A tough cookie to grow in the Midwest. Screened for 3 years. Now it takes the sun with the best of them.

Thanks davesconifers; could you share what your screening technique is (material use?), I have a lot of problem here being south and west facing --- especially during the summer here in Seattle. One block up the hill from Puget sound doesn't help either from winter high winds/summer high winds; but the heat and intense sun gives me allot more problems with my gold cultivars (whether picea, chamaecyparis, pinus, etc.). Thank you ahead of time. Cheers, p.s.: your knowledge and experience would be very helpful to me and probably others too.

Midnightsummerdream, here is a link to an older post by Dave on the very subject. =)

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1852839/skylands-screen?n=5

The ACS Quarterly did an article
on this several years ago. I can't find it to tell you what issue it was in.

Thank you for sharing davesconifers (pics and I'll try to find that ACS quarterly article) and Garen (for the link). Have a great evening. Cheers,

Very nice everything Dave!