Beam one up.

tj

LOL. Scotty is a dapper fellow. Okay, I have to ask, what is the trunk to the right of Scotty?

AC, can we make this a pungens thread?

What is the yellow conifer behind the spruce and further back?

Captain, it's giving it all it can.

Lol tj…fast on your feet!

Maackia, heck yeah to the thread.

The trunk to the right is a maple I raised to get some sun to a 'Gold drift' that's close by. The maple is coming out but not until fall…

Ontario, At first I thought you were talking about this golden 'Helleri holly...

After a reread...there's a small 'Taylor's Sunburst' back there

Thanks, I have now the info for both :-)

That's a beaute

ron

That's a beaute

Yeah, mine does well, too. Makes me wonder how extremely different people's experiences can be. Someone maintains a 'reject list' and the pungens is on that list...

Here's my 'Gold Drift' which is one of the reasons I'm removing the maple. Nows not good timing to remove it all at once with the heat of the summer coming... but I have been limbing it up to say the least

Ontario , each one of my pungens gets sprayed every year now

ron

Here's my no sun side...

I'm gonna change all that

Hey Ron, what are you using?

Pungens pix, eh? Here’s ’St. Mary’s Broom’. Tough to get a pic to do it justice, but at 20 years old it is 4 feet high and 7 feet wide.

Close up.

tj

Picea pungens ' Skyline'

Although I spray it anyway , this has no signs of needle cast

ron

al , I have to look

Draconil...it works real well

I also use it on my ' Fort Mcnair '

The plant on the far left at about the centre line, looks like an animal sitting with its head looking straight up, its forelegs stretched to the sky and its tail pointing to the left, very cute!

I just planted this P. pungens ’Montgomery’.

And here’s an older ‘Montgomery‘ at Chicago Botanic Garden.

Tj that's a beast! The biggest one I've ever seen. Here's one I was growing until I tripped and broke it in half...gone

Ron thanks for the spray tip!

That's a sweet cultivar you have there! I've never seen it offered around here...real nice specimen 

Tried and true cultivar maackia 

Real nice!

alley cat, what is your general location? Such a great collection of plants.

Here's slenderina! About 12' tall.

Not as happy these days with others blocking out alot of her sunshine

Hey rhizo thanks...7b southern Md.

Pp 'Globosa'

" Ron thanks for the spray tip! "

That would be Daconil (not DRaconil). And be aware that spraying can alter the coloring on spruces, removing much of the bluish cast, especially if done in sunny conditions.

Speaking of color changes and looking at photos posted in this thread, do pungens darken with age?

I’ll take a stab at this, but also understand that my perception is limited to a miniscule number of CBS.

The new growth is always the desirable powder blue on the shown cultivars, but the needle color does change during the growing season. Also, as the plant becomes larger, and the new growth is a smaller overall part of the plant, it will change how we see it.

What P. pungens clone maintains the best color throughout the growing season?

I think globosa and hoopsii have always been touted as some of the bluest out there. That debate has been around for a long time.

Just as important, if not more so is planting site, climate,micro climate , root conditions, moisture n sun amounts, planting techniques etc etc...and that's just to have a chance at peak performance. 

Here's one I grew for years until one ultra wet season came along and gave it the death march...needle cast, pink needles,insects and everything else...gone

Spraying may have helped

GAL , I get it from Transilvania ..made from virgin blood

ha ron

Yeah, after getting bitten in the neck, their blood turns blue, globosa blue!

Globosa !