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Conifers

Type Botanical Name Native Common Name Description Height Light Req. Zone Add to My List
Conifer ABIES alba ‘Hedge’ Dwarf Silver Fir

A miniature spreader with short light green needles.

Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES balsamea ‘Tyler Blue’ Blue Balsam Fir

An attractive silver-blue selection with a traditional pyramidal form.

Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES balsamea var. phanerolepis Canaan Fir

A variety of balsam fir from the mountains of Virginia with an attractive pyramidal habit and dark green foliage banded silver beneath.  Tolerant of wet soils.

Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Alfred Hansen’ White Fir

A new selection with no info to be found online! We’ll let you know when we know 🙂

Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Archer’s Dwarf’ Dwarf White Fir

Slow-growing dwarf with a conical habit and dense, soft, silver-blue needles.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 3
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Blue Cloak’ Weeping White Fir

A semi-weeping form with a strong main leader.  Powder-blue, medium-sized needles.

Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Candicans’ White Fir

This is probably one of the bluest conifers. Needles are very big and powder-blue. Form is upright and irregular.

Large (over 12 inches/year) Sun 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Compacta’ syn. ‘Glauca Compacta’ Dwarf White Fir

A very compact, pyramidal form with good blue color.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘King’s Gap’ Dwarf White Fir

A very slow-growing form with lovely soft blue needles and globose habit. Becomes more pyramidal with age.

Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Swift’s Silver’

With soft, silvery-blue needles and a tight pyramidal form this white fir will make an elegant addition to the landscape.

Full sun 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Wintergold’ White Fir

A broadly pyramidal form with soft butter yellow foliage in winter.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES concolor ‘Z-Mark’ Dwarf White Fir

Compact and globe shaped with blue needles. Very cold tolerant.

Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 2
Conifer ABIES grandis x concolor ‘Leuteneggeri’ Hybrid Fir

Long, very blue needles and a perfect pyramidal shape. 10-year size is considered a borderline dwarf.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Alpine Star’ Dwarf Korean Fir

Dark green foliage with silver undersides, contrasting white buds and a slow-growing habit — what else could you want from a conifer!  Forms a flattened globe eventually becoming more spreading.

Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Aurea’ Gold Korean Fir

A beautiful gold foliage form with a more compact habit than the species. Form is upright, but irregular.

Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Blue Emperor’

Compact and a nice pyramidal form with shiny green needles and attractive purple cones.

Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Freudenberg’ Dwarf Korean Fir

A tidy, dwarf form with small green needles. Broad, conical, upright form.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Gait’ Korean Fir

A slender columnar form with deep green needles that produces a prolific amount of upright purple-blue cones. Semi-dwarf. Clay/wind tolerant.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Golden Glow’ Dwarf Korean Fir

A low spreading cultivar with chartreuse-yellow needles and an irregular habit.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Green Carpet’ Dwarf Korean Fir

A low, spreading cultivar with rich green foliage. It forms a tidy, flattened mound.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’ Korean Fir

Needles are twisted to show silver undersides. Unique! Forms a compact pyramid.

Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES koreana ‘Vengels’ Dwarf Korean Fir

A dwarf, narrow, upright form with open branch structure silver-blue-green foliage. Its seed cones are purple-blue in color and uniquely persistent, with new growth needles emerging from the cone itself- most curious!

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 5
Conifer ABIES lasiocarpa arizonica ‘Glauca Compacta’ Dwarf Rocky Mountain Fir

Needles are an attractive blue-gray. Bark is very light colored. Upright, compact habit- even more compact than ‘Glauca’, reaching only about 5 feet in 10 years.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Blue Waterfall’ Weeping Rocky Mountain Fir

A narrow, weeping form with silvery blue foliage.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Glacier Blue’ Dwarf Blue Rocky Mountain Fir

A slow-growing blue cultivar — descriptions vary but forms a miniature to dwarf pyramid. Syn. with ‘Glacier Blue’.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 4
Conifer ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Schneider’ Dwarf Rocky Mountain Fir

A very slow-growing blue-needled form with an upright habit.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer ABIES nordmanniana ‘Golden Spreader’ Caucasian Fir

A low spreader with bright golden yellow foliage. Appreciates some shade.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Part Shade 5
Conifer ABIES nordmanniana ‘Petra’

A mini fir that grows to only 4″ tall & 12″ wide. Bright green new growth of soft needles.

Full sun 4
Conifer ABIES nordmanniana ‘Silver Del’ Nordmann Fir

Slow growing narrow form with cream colored variegation.

4-8 feet Full sun 5
Conifer ABIES procera ‘Glauca Prostrata’ Dwarf Noble Fir

A low-growing conifer with soft, silvery blue needles.  Though only growing to 2 feet tall, it can reach 6’ feet wide making it a lovely evergreen groundcover.  Make sure to cut out any vertical leaders to maintain its prostrate form.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 5
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS nootkatensis Alaskan Yellow Cedar

Slow growing, weeping evergreen native to the Pacific Northwest, makes an impressive statement in a landscape. Shaggy brown bark, that when peeled smells like raw potatoes!  

Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS nootkatensis ‘Glauca’ Nootka Cypress

Forms a dense conical tree with sprays of soft blue-green foliage.

25-30 feet Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS nootkatensis ‘Green Arrow’ Weeping Alaskan Cedar

Very narrow form with graceful pendulous branches.

Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa ‘Fernspray Gold’ Hinoki Cypress

Bright gold fern-like foliage on a broadly conical compact form.

Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa ‘Gracilis’ Dwarf Hinoki Cypress

Upright and dense with beautiful dark green twisted foliage.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS obtusa ‘Nana Lutea’ Dwarf Hinoki Cypress

Compact and slow growing with irregular gold fans. Eventually growing to a pyramidal form.

4-5 feet Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS pisifera ‘Filifera’ Threadbranch Cypress

Narrow thread-like foliage drapes like Cousin Itt! Over time it will become more pyramidal in shape.

10-12 feet Full sun 4
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS pisifera ‘Gold Mops’ Dwarf Threadleaf False Cypress

Golden yellow mounding form with thread-like foliage. Good winter interest. Has proved to be one of the hardiest Chamaecyparis for us.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS pisifera ‘Squarrosa Intermedia’ Intermediate Sawara Cypress

Broadly upright, blue foliage grows in an irregular rounded form. Annual late winter pruning encourages fresh new blue growth each spring. Great for turning into topiaries.

8-10 feet Full sun 4
Conifer CHAMAECYPARIS pisifera ‘White Pygmy’ Sawara Cypress

A real cute dwarf Cypress with white tipped foliage soft enough to pet.

18-20 inches Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer JUNIPERUS chinensis ‘Trautman’ Chinese Juniper

A very narrow juniper with gray-green foliage.  A hardy substitute for Italian cypress.

Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 4
Conifer JUNIPERUS communis ‘Miniature’ Miniature Juniper

An improved selection with blue/green needles and an upright pyramidal habit.

2-3 feet Full sun 4
Conifer JUNIPERUS horizontalis ‘Lime Glow’ Creeping Juniper

Dwarf, slowly creeping juniper with bright chartreuse-yellow new growth turning shades of copper-bronze when the temps cool down in fall.6

6-12" Full sun 3
Conifer JUNIPERUS horizontalis ‘Pancake’ Creeping Juniper

Arguably the lowest growing of all creeping junipers, between 3-6″ high, though can be staked to achieve height and graceful ‘waterfall’ effects. Layered branches with blue-green foliage covering the ground and rooting along the way. Prefers sandy/rocky soils. Drought tolerant.

Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. Sun 3
Conifer LARIX decidua ‘Pendula’ Weeping Larch

Height depends on staking. Graceful pendulous form. We had them trained over the entrance to the nursery, evoking much comment. The deciduous foliage turns a beautiful gold in the fall.

Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 3
Conifer LARIX decidua ‘Prag’ European Larch

Soft green needles grow on this airy shrub, turning bright gold in fall. The branching forms a rounded shape good for smaller gardens.

4-6 feet Full sun 2
Conifer LARIX decidua ‘Puli’ Weeping Larch

A flat ground cover form.  If staked, a narrow weeping tree similar to L. ‘Pendula’, but with denser and lighter green foliage.

Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. Sun/Part Shade 3
Conifer LARIX x marschlinsii ‘Umhausen’

A dwarf Larch that sheds its needles in the fall. Very slow growing with gold and green needles that turn bright gold in fall.

Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides ‘Bizzarger’ Dawn Redwood

Semi dwarf cultivar with twisting branches and foliage.

4-6 feet Full Sun/Part Shade 5
Conifer METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides ‘Gold Rush’ Dawn Redwood

A large form with sprays of bright chartreuse yellow in spring maturing to golden yellow before turning rich shades of orange in fall.

70-80 feet Sun 5