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Type of conifer? Identification
Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please?
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...6/P1010251.jpg Those who know more about it than I do are wise enough to avoid diagnosis just on the basis of one pictu can you provide close-ups of the sprays of foliage? What do the leaves smell like when crushed? Has it had its top cut off at some time? If, in spite of your request for an exact answer, accuracy doesn't matter too much, I'm inclined to guess it may be a Lawson's cypress. At least that's a starting-point for argument from the experts. -- Mike. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...6/P1010251.jpg Those who know more about it than I do are wise enough to avoid diagnosis just on the basis of one pictu can you provide close-ups of the sprays of foliage? What do the leaves smell like when crushed? Has it had its top cut off at some time? If, in spite of your request for an exact answer, accuracy doesn't matter too much, I'm inclined to guess it may be a Lawson's cypress. At least that's a starting-point for argument from the experts. -- Mike. Thanks Mike. Picture of foliage at http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nch1http://s97.. The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! John |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! If in the spring the club shaped flowers (at the end of each leaves) turn bright red it's a female Lawson's cypress. Do you have cones on it (these arrive around now aug/sept) and does it droop at the top and does it smells like parsley and the trunk is red at first then grey/brown and then flaky? It's a lawson. If it branches horizontaly, is multi trunked (bark peels vertically in strips) and the cones are opening really wide like a aniseed seed and finally its under folliage green is darker than the upper, it's a thuja. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
La Puce wrote: John wrote: The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! If in the spring the club shaped flowers (at the end of each leaves) turn bright red it's a female Lawson's cypress. Do you have cones on it (these arrive around now aug/sept) and does it droop at the top and does it smells like parsley and the trunk is red at first then grey/brown and then flaky? It's a lawson. If it branches horizontaly, is multi trunked (bark peels vertically in strips) and the cones are opening really wide like a aniseed seed and finally its under folliage green is darker than the upper, it's a thuja. No - the end of the leaves are yellow, and there are no cones at all. The top is rounded. It branches upwards (?45%)- trunk darkish brown. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...6/P1010251.jpg Those who know more about it than I do are wise enough to avoid diagnosis just on the basis of one pictu can you provide close-ups of the sprays of foliage? What do the leaves smell like when crushed? Has it had its top cut off at some time? If, in spite of your request for an exact answer, accuracy doesn't matter too much, I'm inclined to guess it may be a Lawson's cypress. At least that's a starting-point for argument from the experts. -- Mike. Thanks Mike. Picture of foliage at http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nch1http://s97.. The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! I pass, I think. Can you tell us why you want to know? Unless you very properly just want to know for its own sake, any advice on care is likely to be much the same whatever cypressy kind of thing it is. -- Mike. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...6/P1010251.jpg Those who know more about it than I do are wise enough to avoid diagnosis just on the basis of one pictu can you provide close-ups of the sprays of foliage? What do the leaves smell like when crushed? Has it had its top cut off at some time? If, in spite of your request for an exact answer, accuracy doesn't matter too much, I'm inclined to guess it may be a Lawson's cypress. At least that's a starting-point for argument from the experts. -- Mike. Thanks Mike. Picture of foliage at http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nch1http://s97.. The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! I pass, I think. Can you tell us why you want to know? Unless you very properly just want to know for its own sake, any advice on care is likely to be much the same whatever cypressy kind of thing it is. -- Mike. Yes, I asked because I had previously asked for prunung advice, and one of the respondents wanted to know the variety of the tree in question. John |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Mike Lyle wrote: John wrote: Can anyone tell me the exact variety of this conifer please? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...6/P1010251.jpg Those who know more about it than I do are wise enough to avoid diagnosis just on the basis of one pictu can you provide close-ups of the sprays of foliage? What do the leaves smell like when crushed? Has it had its top cut off at some time? If, in spite of your request for an exact answer, accuracy doesn't matter too much, I'm inclined to guess it may be a Lawson's cypress. At least that's a starting-point for argument from the experts. -- Mike. Thanks Mike. Picture of foliage at http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nch1http://s97.. The crushed leaves smell like....pine!! I pass, I think. Can you tell us why you want to know? Unless you very properly just want to know for its own sake, any advice on care is likely to be much the same whatever cypressy kind of thing it is. -- Mike. Yes, I asked because I had previously asked for prunung advice, and one of the respondents wanted to know the variety of the tree in question. John PS I think it was you that asked!!! |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: No - the end of the leaves are yellow, and there are no cones at all. The top is rounded. It branches upwards (?45%)- trunk darkish brown. Great! You've got a Lawson cypress - in the summer the tips go yellow. Female as well and trunk matches. Also, I looked at your second picture, which I had first missed, and I am now convinced it's a cypress. As for pruning there's lots of way: reducing it (heading back), thinning it or crown lifting it ... The choice is yours. However lawson's don't like pruning, only lightly, as they don't reproduce new branches (new buds). How many trunks do you have? You could perhaps remove one or two if you need to make it look 'lighter'. HTH |
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Type of conifer? Identification
La Puce wrote: John wrote: No - the end of the leaves are yellow, and there are no cones at all. The top is rounded. It branches upwards (?45%)- trunk darkish brown. Great! You've got a Lawson cypress - in the summer the tips go yellow. Female as well and trunk matches. Also, I looked at your second picture, which I had first missed, and I am now convinced it's a cypress. As for pruning there's lots of way: reducing it (heading back), thinning it or crown lifting it ... The choice is yours. However lawson's don't like pruning, only lightly, as they don't reproduce new branches (new buds). How many trunks do you have? You could perhaps remove one or two if you need to make it look 'lighter'. HTH Thank you. There are 4 trunks. If I remove one or two will not that leave bare wood at the point where those trunks are removed? Also, is there any way of removing some of the height and the tree still looking OK and growing back into shape? What would happen if the top 8 foot was removed like a hedge and six inches taken off the sides? Would it recover its shape? |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: John wrote: Mike Lyle wrote: [...] I pass, I think. Can you tell us why you want to know? Unless you very properly just want to know for its own sake, any advice on care is likely to be much the same whatever cypressy kind of thing it is. Yes, I asked because I had previously asked for prunung advice, and one of the respondents wanted to know the variety of the tree in question. PS I think it was you that asked!!! Ah, very likely. I have a memory like, er, one of those things...what's the word? I don't think you'll get very satisfactory results from pruning. Taking the top off won't do any harm, but you'll have a permanently bushy top: a pointy shape can't be regained. As I hinted earlier, I think this has been done already at some time. This kind of tree needs to be watched early in life in case it decides to fork -- I think you said upthread that yours now had four trunks. You can't cut back beyond any greenery, as "brown wood" won't send out new shoots. A bushy top needn't be unattractive, but it is going to try to reach over a hundred feet in height: in smaller gardens they really need to be treated as temporary features. -- Mike. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
John wrote: Thank you. There are 4 trunks. If I remove one or two will not that leave bare wood at the point where those trunks are removed? Also, is there any way of removing some of the height and the tree still looking OK and growing back into shape? What would happen if the top 8 foot was removed like a hedge and six inches taken off the sides? Would it recover its shape? I feel that you are in two minds with what you want to achieve. You either want to reduce the height and keep it to this height, or you want to cut it and then let it grow again to same height and shape. The later is not possible with cypress. It's the unfortunate things with these trees. They are fabulous as a feature, I think, in a lawn, removing the lower branches which gives a pleasant cover underneath, but I always advise not to use them as hedging because soon or later they'll outgrow their space if you don't prune them annually to be kept as a hedge and you get to the situation you are in now. Ideally it should have been reduced to 2 trunks, and the leader cut down and kept down to the height desired. If I was you, I would cut out one trunk, the tallest/leader one and prune to the desired shape. You ought to do this now as it's the best time. To keep on top of it, you must prune a few times during the summer the following years. By doing this, you will have selected a smaller trunk as the leader, this one could be kept as the 'peak' of the shape you wish to keep so much. |
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Type of conifer? Identification
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