Conifers
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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Conifer | ABIES alba ‘Green Spiral’ | Weeping Silver Fir | A moderate sized weeper with twisting stems spiraling outward and down. Habit is narrow. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
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 alba ‘Pyramidalis’ | Silver Fir | Upright pyramidal form with dense dark green foliage. Great for a small garden or tight space. It’s the perfect Christmas tree! |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES alba ‘Schwarzwald’ | European Silver Fir | Tight, flat habit. Needles are short, thick, glossy and rich-green in color. Branchlets are uniform, spreading more horizontally than vertically. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | ABIES balsamea ‘Eugene’s Yellow’ | Dwarf Balsam Fir | A slow-growing selection of our native balsam fir with yellow-gold needles. It forms a flattened globe eventually becoming pyramidal with age. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | ABIES balsamea ‘Piccolo’ | Dwarf Balsam Fir | A miniature cultivar with tiny dark green needles on short erect stems. Forms a dense globe. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
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 balsamea ‘Verkade’s Prostrate’ | Dwarf Balsame Fir | A selection of our native balsam fir. A procumbent form with short, dark green needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
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 ‘Hasta La Vista’ | White Fir | A dwarf fir with thick blue-green needles with a powdery coating. Globose to flattened globose. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 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 ‘Select’ | White Fir | An attractive blue selection with an upright pyramidal habit. |
Large (over 12 inches/year) | 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 ‘Blauer Pfiff’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A dwarf low-spreading form with attractive blue-green needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Cis’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A very tidy, attractive specimen with shiny dark green needles. Shape is a flattened sphere. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
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 ‘Glauca’ | Blue Korean Fir | A selection with more intense blue-green color and an irregular upright form. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 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 ‘Ice Breaker’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A witch’s broom from A. koreana ‘Silberlocke’ with the same recurved needles showing a silvery reverse, but growth rate and branches are much shorter so the plant remains a miniature bun. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Silber Mavers’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | Tiny dark green needles twist to show their silver undersides. Forms a dense bun eventually becoming a mini pyramid. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Silberperle’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A cultivar that is very similar to Abies koreana ‘Silberzwerg’ and ‘Silber Mavers’ and may actually be the same. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Silberzwerg’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | Tiny dark green needles show a silver reverse. Short, stiff branches form a dense globe. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Silver Star’ | Korean Fir | Upright plant with recurved needles showing silvery undersides. Similar to A. ‘Silberlocke’, but perhaps slower growing. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Tundra’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A spreading, rounded dwarf with dark green needles with contrasting white undersides. Cool white buds in winter. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 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 koreana x lasiocarpa | Koreocarpa Fir | A hybrid with blue foliage and an upright, narrow habit. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES koreocarpa ‘Hurricane Blue’ | Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | Stunning silver blue foliage on a dense pyramid. “Hurricane Blue’ is considered a cross between Abies koreana and Abies lasiocarpa. Sometimes syn. with Abies koreana ‘Inga’. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Blue Nut’ | Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | A newer selection suspected to have pyramidal potential; bright blue fir with long needles with a silver highlight. |
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’ | 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 ‘Glauca Compacta’ | Dwarf Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | Slow-growing dense, broad pyramid with stiff, very blue needles. |
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 ‘Little Nordie’ | Caucasian Fir | Bright green foliage on a dense, flat bun. It was found as a witch’s broom at Kate Brook Nursery in Vermont. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
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 | ABIES procera ‘La Graciosa’ | Dwarf Weeping Noble Fir | Dwarf, mounding, pendulous, medium gray-blue green needles. Prefers full sun in well-drained soil. Has two possible forms- It may choose to be 2′ x3′ in 10 yrs or throw a leader and be 5′ x 3′ in 10 years. Great either way! |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. | 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 |