Beech Fruit cups (Eichelkasten aus Buche)
Beech Fruit Cups
Buchenatural
General Info...
Their habitat extends over a large part of Europe including Bulgaria. It requires a humid atmosphere and well-drained soil.

Pinus Mugo whitewashed

Bergkiefer (weiss)

General Info...

The plants may be difficult to find in commerce, but a large number of compact/dwarf cultivars have become popular landscape plants for rock gardens, foundations and other small areas around the home. It is also used in home decorations.

Pinus Mugo whitewashed (Bergkiefer weiss)
Pinus Mugo white tip
Bergkiefer (weiss spit)
General Info...
The trees are native to the mountains of central and southern Europe including Bulgaria. It features bright green needles (to 1-3” long) in bundles of two, oval to conical dull brown female cones (to 2 1/2” long) and scaly brown-gray bark.

Pinus Mugo

Bergkiefer

General Info...

Most often seen as a bushy, multi-stemmed shrub or broad-rounded small tree to 15-20’ tall. Mature plants typically exhibit a dense habit, usually growing wider than tall. Mugo pine is also seen in more prostrate forms as well as in taller trees that will grow to as much as 80’.

Pinus Mugo (Bergkiefer)
Pinus Nigra whitewashed (Schwarzkiefer weiss)
Pinus Nigra whitewashed
Schwarzkiefer (weiss)
General Info...

The trees exhibit a dense pyramidal habit in youth. Crown rounds with age forming a spreading flat top or dome. From an ornamental standpoint, older trees can be quite attractive. 

Pinus Nigra

Schwarzkefer

General Info...

The mature seed cones are 5–10 centimetres (2–4 inches) (rarely to 11 cm) long, with rounded scales; they ripen from green to pale gray-buff or yellow-buff in September to November, about 18 months after pollination.

Pinus Nigra (Schwarzkefer)
Pinus Nigra white tip
Schwarzkiefer (weiss spitz)
General Info...

Subdivided into several distinct subspecies and its taxonomic status is still a subject ofdebate among specialists. Black pine regenerates with difficulties after a fire event, particularly during periods withextreme droughts when the development of seedlings can become challenging.

Pinus Nigra Rosetten

Schwarzkiefer rose

General Info...

The ovulate and pollen cones of Pinus Nigra Rosetten is a medium to large conifer that is native from central and southeastern Europe, including Bulgaria.

Pinus Nigra stars (Schwarzkiefer stern)
Pinus Nigra Stars
Schwarzkiefer stern
General Info...

The cones contain 30-40 seeds. The seeds are grey, 5-7 mm long, with a
wing 19-26 mm long.

Pinus Sylvestris

Weisskefer

General Info...

The trees are pioneer species, frost and drought tolerant and able to grow on very poor soils, so it can be found in many ecologically diverse habitats. Its timber is valued for its good strength to weight ratio and it is both commercially and culturally a very important species in a number of European countries, including Bulgaria.

Pinus Silvestrys (Weisskefer)
Pinus Silvestrys white tip (Weisskiefer weiss spitz)
Pinus Sylvestris white tip
Weisskiefer (weiss spitz)
General Info...

A medium-sized tree, reaches 23-27 m in height on average but can attain over 40 m1
and live for 400 years or more: one tree in Lapland is reported to
be over 750 years old2.

Douglas Fir Cone

Douglasienzapfen

General Info...

An evergreen conifer that can grow to 55m and live for more than 1,000 years. The bark of young trees is grey-green with highly scented blisters, and becomes purple-brown, thick and corky with horizontal fissures over time.

Douglas Fir cone (Douglasienzapfen)
Pinus Peuce whitewashed (Peucezapfen weiss)
Pinus Peuce whitewashed

Peucezapfen (weiss)

General Info...

A quickly growing conifer with a narrow, vertical manner of growth, and a more horizontal branching pattern later. However, the lower branches will remain full if the tree has ample free space around it.

Grated Picea Abies

Fichtenzapfen geraspelt

General Info...

The tree grows throughout Europe from Norway in the northwest and Poland eastward, and also in the mountains of central Europe, southwest to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the Carpathians, Balkans and Bulgaria to the extreme north of Greece.

Grated Picea Abies (Fichtenzapfen geraspelt)
Picea Abies whitewashed (Fichtenzapfen weiss)
Picea Abies whitewashed
Fichtenzapfen (weiss)
General info...

The Norway Spruce is a large pyramidal tree that is dark green in color with long, cylindrical cones. The young branches in a Norway Spruce are often used to make beer.

Picea Abies

Fichtenzapfen

General info...

The Norway Spruce is a monoecious plant meaning that they have both the male and female reproductive organs on the same plant (hermaphrodite), the sporophylls are on the same mature sporophyte. The female gametophyte develops from the haploid spores that are contained within the sporangia.

Picea Abies (Fichtenzapfen)
Pinus Peuce whitewashead
Pucezapfer (weiss)
General Info...

Pinus peuce (Macedonian pine or Balkan pine) (Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian: molika; Bulgarian: byala mura) is a species of pine native to the mountains of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, the extreme southwest of Serbia, and the extreme north of Greece, growing typically at (600-) 1,000-2,200 (-2,300) m altitude.

Pinus Peuce Lacquered

Pucezapfer lackert

General info...

It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath. They are 6–11 cm long. Its pine cones are mostly 8–16 cm long, occasionally up to 20 cm long, green at first, becoming yellow-brown when mature, with broad, flat to downcurved scales.

Pinus Peuce 1st gr. Lacquered (Pucezapfer lackert 1q.)
Douglas Fir cone whitewashed (Douglasienzapfen weiss)
Douglas Fir cone whitewashed
Douglasienzapfen (weiss)
General Info...

Douglas fir grows tall and straight. In fact, itis the tallest conifer in theNorthwest, growing to over 300 feet (90 meters). Only redwoods in California grow to a greater height.

Pinus Nigra on stick

Schwarzkiefer auf einem stock
Pinus Nigra on stick white tip
Schwarzkiefer auf einem stock (weiss spitz)

Pinus Nigra on stick

Schwarzkiefer auf einem stock
Pinus Nigra on stick (Schwarzkiefer auf einem stock)
Picea Abies whitewashed on stick (Fichtenzapfen auf einem stock)
Picea Abies whitewashed on stick
Fichtenzapfen auf einem stock

Picea Abies on a wire

Fichtenzapfen auf einem draht

Picea Abies on wire (Fichtenzapfen auf einem draht)