Conifers
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| 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 🙂 |
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| 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 |