Conifer Garden at Sports Field In Wisconsin - October 2026

I was recently up in Racine Wisconsin where I spent some time at a (pretty nice) youth sports field complex.  They have a beer garden - which feels *very Wisconsin*.  And, the fields were nice.  Grass was cut short and nicely groomed.  But, over by the bathrooms was a collection of conifers that were worth documenting.  Someone planted a number of things in a little cluster and over the years they've matured into a really nice-looking conifer collection.  

One of the standouts is this large, columnar Weeping White Spruce.  It is an almost-perfect specimen.  Shooting straight up in the air.  Narrow.  And really quite nice:

Planted in the beds around the Weeping White Spruce, they had two pairs of other weeping confirs.  Two of them are (I'm pretty sure) Weeping Norway Spruces that they haven't really trained upwards.  The reach about five or six feet tall, then begin to cascade down and all around.  Interesting to see them grow up and out.  And, what happens if you don't train them beyond their initial height.  They had a similar pair of blue-needed weeping trees.  Same habit.  Same lack of training.  So, they sort-of ramble around the beds. 

Here are a couple of photos showing the weeping/contorted conifers.  

One of the things that I'll be putting on my 2027 to-do list is to look into training the Weeping Norway Spruces that are IB2DWs.  They've reached the peak of the training posts that I have on-hand, which means we need to install something taller.