Coenosium Gardens
4412 354th Street East
Eatonville  WA  98328
email bobfincham@mashell.com

I have been a high school science teacher for most of my life. It is a side of me that my many conifer friends know little about. I have decided that as my teaching career winds down toward retirement, that I would try blogging to share some of my experiences. If you'd like to experience some parts of life in a science classroom, pay my blog a visit.

Life in the Classroom of a Science Teacher

Visit www.cnos.biz our newer, hi-res site with new information and downloads. I have just named some of my golden 'Acrocona' seedlings and have uploaded pictures with short descriptions. I have also added a free download of a powerpoint that was well received when I presented it about the founding of the American Conifer Society.

Coenosium Pinetum Plant List: A listing of all of the plants in our gardens. Basically a list of Bob's plant collection 35 years in the making.

Our 2009 catalog is posted at www.cnos.biz

WELCOME TO OUR WORLD OF CONIFERS

Articles  Bonsai  Catalog  DVD How to Graft   Our Story  Nursery News

Gardens  Photo Album  Plant Links  Musings  Lectures  Books  Chub and Dick

The Plant of the Month section has not been deleted from this web site. Just click the link below to view it.

Plant of the Month

Coenosium Gardens has a companion website. Our web site at www.cnos.biz has articles with lots of higher resolution pictures. It also has our 2009 catalog in two forms- a downloadable version and a web version with every plant pictured and availability with the description and price for each plant.

Come pay us a visit. You will enjoy yourself if you enjoy conifers.

Table of Contents  Pages are Periodically Updated 

Articles

1.Gordon and the Haida
2.Conifer Origins
3.Boskoop
4. History of U.S. Conifer Cultivars from 1932
5. European Beech Cultivars
6. Dwarf Forms of Picea Pungens
7. Hungarian Conifer Trip
8. Golden Conifers
9. Conifers of the Czech Republic
10. Selected cultivars of Cupressus

Bonsai

1.LongwoodPics
2.RobinsonCollection
3. Edlo Bonsai
4. Rooted Conifers for Bonsai
5. The Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection

Nursery News

1.Winter, 1998
2.Spring,1999 
How to Graft Conifers

Gardens

1.ArnoldArboretum
2.TheCreeks
3. Arboretum Trompenburg
4. The National Dwarf Conifer Collection of England
5. The Coenosium Rock Garden at South Seattle Community College.

Photo Album

1.Assorted
2.AussieVol
3. Random to Answer Requests/Questions
4.Special Plant Descriptions
5. Some gold and blue conifers

Musings

1.Collecting Conifers
2. Dwarf Conifer Confusion
3. So You Want to Start a Nursery
4. A Trip Down Memory Lane: Plant Collectors Who Influenced Me When I Started Collecting Conifers
5. Understock/scion compatabilities
6. Why do conifers weep?
7. Pricing Dwarf and Unusual Conifers

Books

1. Conifer Books
2. Propagation Books

Home Page

Dianne and I have been working on a project with South Seattle Community College for the past ten years. We have now posted detailed information about the project on this web site. We have been waiting until after the project was formally dedicated to announce it here. This link will take you to pages that detail the project and show the construction of the garden.

Click here to tour the project.

This is the site to find out what is happening in the world of conifers. It is also THE site to locate rare and unusual plants that you might like to add to your landscape. It is THE site to read new and old articles about conifers.

We include pictures of new and old conifer cultivars. People new to the conifer world and people who have been studying conifers for years will find many interesting things on this site.                                                                      

GOTELLI  DWARF  CONIFER  COLLECTION

The term, Coenosium, is an old Greek word meaning plant community. We selected it because we wanted a name that was very distinctive and would be immediately associated with our very special nursery. Many of our customers find it a difficult name to pronounce, but they all know who we are.

Coenosium Gardens is a retail nursery oriented toward the collector of rare and unusual plants, with an emphasis on conifers. It has been in business since 1979 and 90% of our business is mail order. Our goal has always been to make new conifers available to everyone at affordable prices.

Robert (Bob) Fincham handles the technical aspects of the business, maintains the stock plant collections and gardens, and takes care of all of the plant propagation.

Dianne Fincham handles all aspects of the business that involve dealing with customers.

Bob maintains this web site. Its contents are the product of his mind. He hopes you will want to return on a regular basis. He will be adding new material to the many directories on a regular basis. Your input is always welcome. Bob may be reached by email at bobfincham@mashell.com

As you can see here, Bob had himself cloned to handle all of the various projects presently underway. 

This page was last updated on 09/18/09. 

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