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Conifer confusion (ID post)

LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
edited 13 January in Plants
I am helping a relative identify plants in her soon-to-be garden. Plenty are easy (Griselinia, Viburnum, Abelia, Magnolia etc) but I find conifers really difficult. There's a long hedge of what I suspect is leylandii, which had clearly been looked after quite well but the house has been vacant for 18 months and there is now lots of lush growth. I have been counselling trimming asap so as not to end up with brown areas, but can anyone confirm if it's definitely leylandii, or could it be another similar conifer with differing requirements?

(The colour difference is just that the cutting was taken from the newer growth further along)

Thanks in advance for any help!
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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    There is this gorgeous tree too - I know it's a pine! But which? 

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    And lots of these quite stunted trees hiding the oil tank. 

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    First is Leylandii.

    Second piney tree is I agree gorgeous, but sorry no idea... :)

    Third looks like Thuja to me, not sure which one though. 
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Thank you @Rubytoo 🙂
    I think I'm a bit conifer-blind - where subtle differences in other plant groups are often obvious to me, conifers (even obviously different ones) sort of merge together! 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    Conifers not the easiest to ID bit easier in person I find . I think the last one maybe a leylandii as well . I don't know to many pine except for a few really nice ones , closest I could find was pinus radiata aurea for the pine tree 
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Thanks @Perki , I think that pine suggestion is good - closer than I'd got before, anyway.
    I wonder if the last one could be Monterey cypress? 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Scent  of crushed greenery can gives some clues. Maybe @Silver surfer  can help
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Not sure, but could the second one be a Pinus Mugo ? Worth checking out.
    AB Still learning

  • CrankyYankeeCrankyYankee Posts: 504
    That pine reminds me of the Eastern White Pines that grow all over the place here.
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  • Wild_VioletWild_Violet Posts: 221
    The first could be leylandii or maybe a Thuja plicata.  Thuja has a pineappley scent if crushed I believe.
    Third one looks like leylandii to me.  I had a couple of potted ones that I neglected and they looked a lot like these.
    No idea as to the second but it is lovely. 
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