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What is witch's Brown

The Conifer Kingdom team is deeply rooted in a lifelong passion for plants. We supply the everyday gardener to the serious collector. We offer the largest selection available with over 600 varieties, in sizes from sapling to large, mature specimens.<br><br>We love conifers for their four-season interest and the variety of forms, colors, and textures. Similarly, Japanese maples are possibly the most versatile landscape tree due to the thousands of available cultivars with unique forms, growth rates and colors.

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What is witch's Brown

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  1. What Is a Witch's Broom?

  2. Grafting season is nearly upon us again, and we are setting out to collect many of the witch’s brooms we have discovered in the past year. But what is a witch’s broom exactly? It is a mutation on a tree that causes a portion of the branches to grow much slower from a certain point. After a few years, this anomaly is much easier to see since it appears as a dense, often globose, appendage on the tree.

  3. Sometimes these are caused by mistletoe, fungi, or insects, but the ones which can be successfully propagated as dwarf trees are caused by genetic mutations. In many cases, it is difficult to tell the difference between the genetically stable brooms and those created by external factors. However, if there is a high concentration of witch’s brooms in a particular area, there is a good possibility that they could be caused from a mistletoe infestation or other pathogen in the area.

  4. Different Varieties Of witch's broom. Abies koreana 'Kohout's Ice Breaker‘ Many of the most popular slow-growing conifers that we offer started off as a witch's broom growing on a tree that is popular but perhaps grows too quickly for smaller, urban spaces. Ice Breaker originated as a witch's broom on the very popular 'Horstmann's Silberlocke' Korean fir. Sharing the same curled needles as its parent, Ice Breaker has remarkably stunning coloration but a more low-growing and rounded habit that makes it easier to maintain in residential landscapes.

  5. Picea abies 'Pusch‘ Pusch is another variety found as a witch's broom on a faster-growing variety, and it has become one of our most popular spruces of all time! Can you see why? This variety was cultivated from a witch's broom found on 'Acrocona' which was known for its prolific cone production. However, Acrocona eventually grew much too large for most landscapes! The abundant reddish cones are still present but the slower-growing, mounding habit of Pusch is part of what makes it so desirable: it is easy to fit in a smaller garden.

  6. 3.Pinusstrobus 'Coney Island' Another exceptional cone-producing dwarf originating as a witch's is Coney Island Eastern White Pine. See how this 5-year-old plant has dozens of large cones?! Shaggy, blue-green needles are soft to the touch

  7. 4. Pinusparviflora 'Regenhold' ('Ron's Broom') This "broom" is Japanese white pines. Found as a witch's broom by Ron Regenhold on the cultivar 'Glauca' in the 1980s. Due to its slow rate of growth and relatively recent introduction, this pine is still rather uncommon yet highly sought-after. (The plant below is nearly 10 years old!)

  8. Contact Us Physical Address: Conifer Kingdom 6450 Brush Creek Dr. NE Silverton, OR 97381 Mailing Address: Conifer Kingdom PO Box 1581 Silverton, OR 97381 For general inquiries, customer service, and to make an appointment, please call our office at 503-874-4123.

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