Conifers
Type | Botanical Name | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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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 balsamea ‘Nana’ | Dwarf Balsam Fir | A slow-growing cultivar with lovely dark green glossy foliage. It forms a dense, flattened globe that is wider than tall. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 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 concolor ‘Blue Cloak’ | Weeping White Fir | A weeping form with a strong main leader. Powder-blue, medium-sized needles. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | |||
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’ | Dwarf White Fir | A very compact, pyramidal form with good blue color. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | |||
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 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 ‘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 ‘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 ‘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. | |||
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 ‘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 ‘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. | |||
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Starkers Dwarf’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A dwarf nest form when young, becoming mounding with age. Needles dark green with typical silver reverse. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) | Sun | 4 | |
Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘True Blue’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | Beautiful blue foliage on a compact pyramid. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | |||
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 lasiocarpa ‘Arizonica Glauca’ | Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | Needles are an attractive blue-gray. Bark is very light colored. Upright, compact habit. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | |
Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Glacier’ | Dwarf Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | A slow-growing blue cultivar — descriptions vary but forms a miniature to dwarf pyramid. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | |||
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 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 | BONSAI AND TROUGH PLANTS Assorted | A selection of diminuitive, slow-growing conifers suitable for containers. |
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Conifer | CHAMAECYPARIS nootkatensis ‘Glauca Pendula’ | Weeping Alaskan Cedar | Blue-green foliage form with graceful pendulous branches on an upright tree. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | 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 ‘Compacta’ | Hinoki Cypress | A fast-growing broad, conical cultivar with typical dark green, fan spray foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | |
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 ‘Nana 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 ‘Vokel’s Upright’ | Hinoki Cypress | An upright dwarf with dark green foliage and very narrow habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | |
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 ‘Lemon Thread’ | Dwarf Threadleaf False Cypress | Similar to C. ‘Gold Mops’, but more upright and faster growing. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | |
Conifer | CHAMAECYPARIS pisifera ‘Vintage Gold’ | Sawara False Cypress | Gold form with both fern-leaf and thread-leaf foliage creating a unique texture. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | |
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. | 5 | ||
Conifer | JUNIPERUS communis ‘Green Carpet’ | Common Juniper | Dense, ground cover juniper with bright green spring growth maturing to a darker green. Grows 6 inches tall by 3 feet wide. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | |
Conifer | JUNIPERUS horizontalis ‘Gold Strike’ | Creeping Juniper | Vivid gold foliage on a low spreading plant. This is a seedling selection of J. horizontalis ‘Motherlode’. Grows 6 inches tall by 3 feet wide. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | |
Conifer | JUNIPERUS horizontalis ‘Mother Lode’ | Creeping Juniper | A yellow sport of the ground-hugging J. ‘Wiltoni’ . Yellow-orange in fall and winter. Well-behaved for a juniper! |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | 3 | ||
Conifer | JUNIPERUS procumbens ‘Nana’ | Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper | Great texture with bluish-green foliage. Habit is tufted and mounding and more sculptural than other spreading junipers. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | |
Conifer | JUNIPERUS scopulorum ‘Candelabra’ | Candelabra Juniper | A distinctive upright juniper with lovely blue-gray, semi-pendulous branches that bend up at the tips. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | |
Conifer | JUNIPERUS squamata ‘Blue Star’ | Blue Star Juniper | Steely blue foliage in dense star-like pattern. Forms a rounded globe. This is much more compact than other junipers and does not spread. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | |
Conifer | JUNIPERUS squamata ‘Holger’ | Holger Juniper | Arching habit with needles blue and tipped with gold. Grows 3 feet tall by 8 feet wide. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | |
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 laricina ‘Blue Sparkler’ | Dwarf Larch | A dwarf selection of Eastern Larch with soft blue-green foliage. Mounding habit gives way to a more upright pyramidal form as the plant matures. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | |
Conifer | METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides ‘North Light’ | Dawn Redwood | A dense-growing, ball-shaped formed with cream flecked needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | |
Conifer | METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides ‘Ogon’ | Gold Rush Dawn Redwood | A cultivar with gold to chartreuse needles. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | |
Conifer | MICROBIOTA decussata | Russian Cypress | Feathery growth on drooping branch tips. Tolerant of shade and dry conditions. Bright green in summer, bronze in winter. Low, spreading. We’ll also have some trained as standards. Grows 1 foot high by 8 feet wide. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | |
Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Acro-Yellow’ | Norway Spruce | Butter yellow frosted foliage on an irregular upright plant. Ornamental cones like P. ‘Acrocona’. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | |
Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Acrocona’ | Norway Spruce | A slower-growing upright form with large cones upright on the branch ends. Forms a broad pyramid. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | |
Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Argenteospica’ | Norway Spruce | Cultivar with new growth tipped in white. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 |