hehe. The checklist is _all_ listed maple cultivars, not just the Japanese ones! Can't wait to see the new Vertrees/Gregory edition, though.
Well I, for one, made up my mind last year NOT to buy any more of these so-called 'new' cultivars If it doesn't appear in any of the lists from the 1800's then I am no longer interested I will now concentrate on building up a collection of the 'old standards' which have been well tried and tested So there ...... :)
Blue Atlas cedar is called Glauca Group by the RHS as the cultivar has long since come to consist of multiple separate clonal introductions. Rooting or grafting of side branches might produce a pendent habit for a time, the propagule growing as a branch. But your interpretation of the "Blue Cascade" is probably correct, unfortunately. Other growers, including some well-known ones also offer certain other conifers under made-up names.
If you are not a member of the Maple Society, can you still get a copy of the checklist? If so, how might I go about getting one?
The checklist is available through the Westonbrit Arboretun by contacting hugh.angus@forestry.gsi.gov.uk as listed in the winter 08 Maple Society newsletter. Ed
>I have a Cedrus atlantica 'Blue Cascade' that I paid $300 at a retail center as a stock plant. It looked like a mounding and contorted Blue Atlas cedar with the color of Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' when I bought it. Now, after 3 years in my landscape, every terminal is heading up..... Moral of the story, some nursery was long on Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca', they bent the tops over and tied them to the trunk, let them flush the next year in a confusing/weeping fashion, and sold them for top $$ as a new cultivar. I've even seen this joke of a plant appear in booths at nursery trade shows<
