Abies cilicica 'Spring Grove' / Spring Grove Cilician fir
Abies cilicica ' Spring Grove' is a compact, rounded, dwarf selection of Cilician fir with green foliage. After ten years, a mature specimen will stand 30 inches (75 cm) tall and 18 inches (45 cm) wide, a rate of growth of 2 to 3 inches (5 - 7.5 cm) per year. Of the many dwarf firs in cultivation, this is one of the most tidy and formal looking. It is very scarce in the nursery trade, but worth seeking out.
This cultivar originated in the mid 1990s as a witch's broom found by Randy Dykstra of Fulton, Iowa in section 110 of Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Cincinnati Ohio, USA. This plant is sometimes seen listed as 'Spring Grove no. 110'. Randy is known to have found and introduced many conifer cultivars that originated as witch's brooms in Spring Grove Cemetery, the majority of which have been published with the section number pertaining to the part of the cemetery where they were found.
Abies cilicica 'Spring Grove' — the same plant at Bickelhaupt. This is likely the oldest example of this conifer in cultivation.
Photo by Bill Barger
Abies cilicica 'Spring Grove' —at Bickelhaupt Arboretum, Clinton, Iowa, in the Heartland Collection of Garden Conifers.
Photo by Dax Herbst
Comments
Ellen
Do you mean the oldest conifer in cultivation at Bickelhaupt?
Maxwell Cohn
no, it's likely the oldest specimen of this cultivar in existence.
Ellen
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Maxwell Cohn
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Ellen
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Maxwell Cohn
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Comments
Do you mean the oldest conifer in cultivation at Bickelhaupt?
no, it's likely the oldest specimen of this cultivar in existence.
Then say that. That this is the oldest specimen of this cultivar in existence. Ambiguity is not the goal of this great database.
success of this project is more dependent on getting people to ask questions. It raises our value with Google analytics. Mission accomplished.
So ambiguity IS the goal.
hmmm ... sometimes.
Especially if ambiguity gets users to interact with the site. That's what makes a living database much more valuable than a book made from paper, that's obsolete the moment the ink hits the page.