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Grow your own Christmas trees or a great gift idea :-
White Fir /
Fraser Fir / Korean Fir / Noble Fir /
Nordmann Fir / Norway Spruce
/ Blue Spruce / White Spruce / Scottish pine / Douglas Fir / Deodar Cedar /
Giant Redwood
Abies Amabilis / Abies Balsamea / Cupressus Arizonica /
Picea Mariana / Pinus Contorta /
Pinus Nigra Austriaca /
Pinus Ponderosa /
Pinus Strobus
Abies
(Silver Firs)
The seeds are not actually dormant but germinate faster and more uniformly
if they are given a moist pre chilling at 0-2°C for up to 10 weeks.
The Silver Firs listed below are all good to excellent for Christmas trees.
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Abies Amabilis Pacific Silver Fir, Red Fir Ornamental tall tree Used in landscaping, commercially grown for Christmas trees and foliage for Christmas decorations. £1.50 Av 25 seeds
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Abies Balsamea Balsam Fir A popular Christmas tree also used to produce Balsam. Small to medium sized tree with aromatic leaves. £1.50 Av 25 seeds
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| Abies Concolor
Bonsai & Trees Botanical White Fir, Concolor Fir A beautiful tree with grey bark that becomes scaly with age, leaves are a pale blue-green colour. Popular Christmas tree. Will withstand heat and drought better than most firs. RHS Award of Garden Merit £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Abies Fraseri Fraser Fir A medium sized slender conical tree. This variety is becoming more popular for Christmas trees. Quicker growing than the nordmann fir. £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Abies Grandis Giant Fir A fast growing conical to columnar evergreen tree. Leaves are fragrant when crushed. The tree has many uses including medicinal, edible, dye, incense and the leaves as moth repellant. £1.95 Av 25 seeds
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Abies Koreana
Bonsai & Trees Korean Fir Small, slow-growing tree of neat habit. Leaves 1-2cm long, dark green above, gleaming white beneath. Violet-purple, cylindrical cones, 5-7.5cm long, produced even on very small specimens. Ornamental tree up to 10m, produces beautiful cones even on young trees 2m tall. A good species to Bonsai, mentioned as being used as non drop Christmas trees. £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Abies Nobilis Noble Fir Wales Blue Strain A large conical fir with grey bark, grey green to bright blue grey leaves. A very blue strain from tree stands in Wales. Ideal for Christmas trees. £1.95 Av 25 seeds
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| Abies Nordmanniana Nordmann Fir, Caucasian Fir A very ornamental fir with tiered branches that sweep downwards with shiny green leaves. One of the main firs for the Christmas tree market. RHS Award of Garden Merit £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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Araucaria araucana
Chile pine
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Monkey Puzzle
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| Calocedrus decurrens See Libocedrus decurrens
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| Cedrus Atlantica Bonsai &
Trees Atlas Cedar Conical coniferous tree that becomes more open with age, an excellent specimen tree. The oil distilled from the branches is used in medicinal treatments, perfumery and insect repellents. The wood is fragrant and used in the construction industry. Bonsai - can be trained to most forms. £1.95 Av 15 seeds
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| Cedrus Deodora Bonsai & Trees Indian Cedar, Deodar Cedar An elegant conical coniferous tree with needle like leaves glaucous or silvery turning mid-green, and drooping branches. Ideal for informal bonsai, formal upright, group styles and multi trunk styles. It is used for Christmas trees and in Altadena California there is a mile long boulevard of Cedrus Deodora known as Christmas Tree Lane. RHS Award of Garden Merit £2.45 Av 15 seeds
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| Chamaecyparis Lawsonia Lawson Cypress Evergreen columnar tree, growth medium rate, attractive to wildlife, has scented leaves. Can be used as a tall hedge, tolerant of light clipping. Some varieties suitable for Bonsai. £1.25 Av 30 seeds
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| Cryptomeria japonica Bonsai & Trees Japanese Cedar Hardy tree, with blue-green foliage and very ornamental peeling reddish bark. Well liked in Japan as an ornamental tree or bonsai subject. RHS Award of Garden Merit £1.35 Av 25 seeds
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Cupressus Arizonica Arizona cypress Medium sized coniferous tree, ornamental with aromatic leaves. Uses as Christmas tree and hedging. £1.50 Av 40 seeds
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| Cupressus
cashmeriana Cupressus torulosa var. cashmeriana Kashmir Cypress Coniferous tree, very ornamental with graceful weeping branches with glaucous blue leaves in pendant sprays. RHS Award of Garden Merit £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Cupressus macrocarpa Bonsai & Trees Monterey Cypress, California Cypress Coniferous tree, has a rough fibrous bark planted as an ornamental. Prefers full sun and moist soil. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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Ginkgo biloba Chinese Medicinal Herb Bonsai & Trees Maidenhair Tree Ginkgo biloba has unique foliage which is fan shaped and leathery with golden yellow foliage in autumn. Deciduous. Rare to find in the wild but grown in Temple gardens and as specimen trees, an excellent subject to Bonsai. Ginkgo is a traditional Chinese medicine where the seed is used. Recently research has found health promoting properties within the leaves. Used to improve memory, stimulate the blood circulation, leaves are harvested just before they begin to change colour normally in late summer to early autumn. Magical powers of love and beauty. RHS Award of Garden Merit £2.95 Av 8 seeds
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| Juniperus
chinensis
Bonsai & Trees Chinese Juniper Evergreen with scented flowers, the grey-brown bark shreds or peels. £1.25 Av 20 seeds
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| Juniperus communis Bonsai
& Trees Juniper Evergreen spreading shrub to columnar tree with deep green to blue green leaves. Ideal for most styles of Bonsai. £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Juniperus
rigida
Bonsai & Trees Temple Juniper, Needle Juniper Evergreen tree with pendulous branches and fine needle like leaves. Excellent bonsai subject suited to all styles and sizes. £2.25 Av 25 seeds
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Larix Kaempferi
Bonsai & Trees Japanese Larch also known as Larix leptolepis Fast growing deciduous conifer with blue/green needles fading to yellow/orange. Rust red branches darken in winter to almost purple, quickly makes a very good bonsai. Suitable for all sizes and most styles of Bonsai. RHS Award of Garden Merit £1.75 Av 30 seeds
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| Libocedrus
decurrens Calocedrus decurrens Incense Cedar, Cedar Ornamental Columnar Conifer, spreading flat fan like branches, borne nearly down to the ground. Purplish red thin scaly bark when young that shreds, fragrant wood. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Metasequoia
glyprostroboides
Bonsai & Trees Dawn Redwood A conical fast growing deciduous conifer with orange-brown bark. Light green needle type leaves turn a red-brown in autumn. Makes an interesting bonsai, suitable styles include Formal, informal, groves, literati, carved styles. £1.25 Av 30 seeds
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Picea seeds are not actually dormant
but germinate faster and more uniformly
if they are given a moist pre chilling at 0-2°C for up to 10 weeks.
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Picea Abies Bonsai & Trees Christmas Tree, Norway Spruce. The most commonly cultivated spruce. The traditional Christmas tree, soft dark green needles. Seed requires no pre-treatment. £1.65 Av 40 seeds
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| Picea engelmannii Bonsai & Trees Engelmann Spruce, Mountain Spruce. An evergreen, coniferous, conical shaped tree tree with short branches and red-brown loose scaly bark and pale brown shoots. Flexible, slender, bluish green leaves, (4 sided needles) arranged radically, pointing forward along the shoots. Native to the Rocky Mountains. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Picea glauca Bonsai & Trees White Spruce Conical shaped tree evergreen and fast growing with scaly loose greyish-brown bark. Leaves are blue-green four-sided, stiff and sharp arranged spirally on the branches. Used for Christmas Trees. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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Picea Mariana Bonsai & Trees Black Spruce A small to medium sized slow growing tree. Uses grown for Christmas trees also wood is used for pulp and paper making. £1.50 Av 40 seeds
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| Picea Omorika
Bonsai & Trees Serbian Spruce A very ornamental spruce, having a spire like form. It quickly forms a tall graceful tree with pendant branches that curve upwards towards the ends. £1.75 Av 25 seeds
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| Picea Pungens Glauca
Bonsai & Trees Blue Spruce A columnar to conical tree with glaucous leaves, purplish grey scaly bark, bluish grey green leaves. Ideal use as a specimen tree, a popular landscape tree and Christmas tree. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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Pine
Bonsai & Trees
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Pinus Contorta Bonsai &
Trees Contorta Latifolai - Lodgepole Pine Medium sized tree normally found growing in coastal areas. Yellow to green needles often twisted in shape. £1.35 Av 40 seeds
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| Pinus mugo-mughus Bonsai &
Trees Dwarf Mountain Pine Bushy small tree or shrub with scaly grey bark. Suitable to any style except broom and can be used in all sizes. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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Pinus Nigra Austriaca Bonsai &
Trees Austrian Pine Large tree with a dense head of branches. One of the hardiest conifers. Grows well in coastal areas, very aromatic. Ideal for screening, landscaping and Christmas Trees retains needles well £1.25 Av 40 seeds
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Pinus Nigra Corsicana Bonsai &
Trees Corsican Black Pine Large evergreen tree, ideal for coastal areas retains needles well. £1.50 Av 25 seeds
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Pinus Ponderosa Western Yellow Pine or Ponderosa Pine Large evergreen ornamental tree with deep green needles and cinnamon red cones. Used for Christmas Trees good needle retention. £1.75 Av 25 seeds
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Pinus Strobus Bonsai &
Trees White Pine, Weymouth Pine Soft blue green needles that are retained well. Makes a good specimen tree. Used for Christmas Trees, £1.50 Av 25 seeds
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| Pinus thunbergii
Bonsai & Trees Japanese Black Pine A conical tree that becomes rounded with age, craggy dark purple-grey bark and dark green needles. Suitable to any style except broom and can be used in all sizes. £1.35 Av 50 seeds
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| Pinus densiflora Bonsai & Trees Japanese Red Pine Evergreen conifer, conical when young becoming flat topped with age. Reddish bark and blue-green needles. Suited to most styles except broom. £1.25 Av 20 seeds
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| Pinus halepensis Aleppo Pine Conical tree when young becoming rounded with age, having scaly red-brown bark. A rugged looking fast growing tree. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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| Pinus pinea Pine Nut Source of the richly delicious pine nuts used in pesto's and other Mediterranean dishes. Attractive pot plant; grows well in pots. Pine Nuts are produced on mature trees. Sow from late winter to late summer, tender perennial. £3.00 Av 5 seeds
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| Pinus sylvestris Bonsai & Trees Scottish pine. Scots Pine Becoming more popular in the Christmas tree market. Conical shaped when young, evergreen conifer with blue-green or grey-green needles and flaking red-brown or orange bark. 1 gram Av 130-140 seeds £1.75 Av 0.5 gram pkt
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| Pseudotsuga
Taxifolia P. menziesii Bonsai & Trees Douglas Fir A fast growing evergreen tree, a stately conifer. In young trees the bark is smooth and grey and becomes corky and red-brown with age, the leaves being fragrant when crushed. It is grown for Christmas trees as the needle retention is considered to be reasonable, and the branches thinner than the spruce. £1.75 Av 25 seeds
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| Sciadopitys
verticillata
Bonsai & Trees Japanese Umbrella Pine, Umbrella Pine A very ornamental and slow growing columnar to conical evergreen tree, it gets its name umbrella tree by the way the waxy green needles radiate around the stem, giving it an umbrella effect. The timber is used for boat building as it is soft, elastic and water resistant. Habitats bog gardens and woodlands. Use for specimen trees and bonsai. £3.00 Av 10 seeds
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| Sequoiadendron
giganteum
Bonsai & Trees Big tree, Giant redwood, Wellingtonia. Another excellent subject for Bonsai. Evergreen conical conifer. Fast growing requiring frequent pruning to maintain its shape as a Bonsai subject. Giant Redwood is also used as a large Christmas tree. Every year Wakehurst Place dress their Giant Redwood that stands over 35m with nearly 2,000 Christmas tree lights. £2.50 Av 30 seeds
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| Sequoia
sempervirens
Bonsai & Trees Coastal Redwood An evergreen tree, this is one of the most famous and best known trees in the world. The bark is thick and spongy and is used for making paper and for insulation. This species makes a superb bonsai subject as an upright style in a formal arrangement that resembles the stature of the tree growing in its natural environment. Arrangements of a few trees together works very well. £1.45 Av 25 seeds
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| Taxus Baccata Bonsai & Trees Yew A conical slow growing evergreen tree with spreading horizontal branches having dark green needle like leaves. Peeling reddish brown bark is a feature of some varieties. Makes an excellent hedge being tolerant to clipping, and makes an excellent topiary and bonsai plant. £1.45 Av 30 seeds
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| Thuja Occidentalis Bonsai & Trees Northern White Cedar Evergreen small column tree to 20m with red-brown bark and fanned out branches. Used for landscape and hedging, Ideal for straight trunk bonsai. 1 gram Av 600 seeds £1.45 Av 1 gram pkt
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| Thuja orientalis Bonsai & Trees Chinese Arbor-vitae Conical or crowned large shrub or small tree with red-brown bark. £1.25 Av 15 seeds
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| Tsuga Heterophylla
Bonsai & Trees Western Hemlock A tall elegant fast growing evergreen tree. It makes a beautiful specimen conifer, having horizontal branches with pendant tips. Uses are edible and medicinal and was once used by the North American Indian Tribes but is little used in herbalism nowadays. An ideal subject to Bonsai. £1.25 Av 25 seeds
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The cultural information should be
used as a guide only, I have found a number of different sowing techniques for
the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a standard. With
this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you probably already
have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a rule of thumb the
larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed like Lobelia
Begonia etc requires no cover.
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