Conifers
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| 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 decidula ‘Pendula Prostrate Form’ | Prostrate European Larch | This deciduous conifer makes a great ground cover with soft needles that turn bright gold in fall before dropping. |
12-36 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| 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 Dawn’ | Dawn Redwood | Narrow upright 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 | ||
| Conifer | METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides ‘Miss Grace’ | Weeping Dawn Redwood | This small deciduous conifer with graceful weeping branches can reach 10’ tall by 3’ wide if staked. Refined gray-green foliage in summer, very strong orange in autumn. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| 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 ‘Soul Fire’ | Dawn Redwood | A gorgeous color-changing deciduous conifer. Starting out bright gold with a rosy-orange flush changing to all gold then moving into brilliant orange in fall. More compact than the specie making it easier to fit into a landscape. |
15-20 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| 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 ‘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 ‘Catherine’s Golden Heart’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | From a cross between P. ‘Acrocona’ and P. ‘Gold Drift’ by Bob Fincham, this variety has gold foliage on pendulous branches and red cones. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Clanbrassiliana Stricta’ | Norway Spruce | Beautifully compact pyramidal form like a miniature Christmas tree. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Cupressina’ | Norway Spruce | Dense and narrow this is a great conifer where space is limited. Grows 20 feet tall, but only 5 feet wide in 20 years. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | Picea abies ‘Dandylion’ | Norway Spruce | Bright red cones at the end of brilliant arching yellow new growth. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Elegans’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | A slow spreading form with an irregular rounded habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Farnsburg’ | Weeping Norway Spruce | A weeping cultivar with short green needles and denser habit than P. abies ‘Pendula’. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Gold Drift’ | Weeping Norway Spruce | A gold-needled weeping cultivar! Stake for height. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Goldenrods’ | Norway Spruce | A pyramidal, bright yellow Norway Spruce found as a result of the intentional cross of ‘Acrocona’ and ‘Gold Drift’. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Gregoryana Parsonii’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | An especially slow growing form with an irregular mounding habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | Picea abies ‘Kluis’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | Irregularly-shaped, tight, multi-branched habit; Slow-growing dwarf, with a globose shape when young, later developing a leader and becoming a small upright tree. Needles are short and dark green. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Lanham’s Beehive’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | The glaucous needles are longer and thicker than other dwarf Norway spruce. Twigs cinnamon-colored. Forms a compact mound. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Lemon Flare’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | Another Bob Fincham intro, a low-spreading form with bright golden yellow foliage. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Medusa’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | A miniature witch’s broom from P. ‘Acrocona’ with tiny, slightly twisted branches and tiny cones. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Pendula’ | Weeping Norway Spruce | Very pendulous branches, must be staked to obtain height desired. Always a much admired specimen. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Perry’s Gold’ | Gold Norway Spruce | Gold new growth fading to green on a conical dwarf. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Sherwood Compact’ | Norway Spracy | A compact form that is dense and pyramidal. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Tompa’ | Dwarf Norway Spruce | Adorable little dwarf with irregular. pyramidal habit. Great for the rock garden or trough. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA abies ‘Wartburg’ | Weeping Norway Spruce | Robust, upright, weeping; has a dominant central leader and irregular branching, some weep directly downward and others stray in odd directions. Young branchlets have distinctive orange bark. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA engelmannii ‘Blue Magoo’ | Engelmann Spruce | A compact gray-blue foliage form with a dense, symmetrical habit. Striking blue new growth is pendulous. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA engelmannii ‘Low Blow’ | Engelmann Spruce | Compact, pyramidal form with blue/green needles and draping cones. |
3-4 feet | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | Picea glauca ‘Blue Teardrop’ | Dwarf White Spruce | A tight-growing dwarf with small blue-gray needles and an upright habit. Syn. with Picea mariana ‘Blue Teardrop’. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA glauca ‘Jean’s Dilly’ | Dwarf Alberta Spruce | An Alberta Spruce with unique twisted new growth and very tight habit. Protect from winter sun and wind. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA glauca ‘Pendula’ | Weeping White Spruce | This cultivar has stiffly downward hanging branches of bluish-green. Habit is very narrow. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA glauca ‘Yukon Blue’ | White Spruce | A tight-growing semi-dwarf form with short blue-gray needles. Forms a narrow pyramid. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA mariana ‘Aureovariegata’ | Black Spruce | Blue-gray foliage overlayed with gold on top of all horizontal surfaces. Habit is pyramidal. |
Large (over 12 inches/year) | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA omorika ‘Nana’ | Dwarf Serbian Spruce | Slow-growing, from a bun shape to a conical compact shrub about 5′. Recurved needles show bluish reverse. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA omorika ‘Pendula Bruns’ | Weeping Serbian Spruce | A narrow-growing German selection with pendulous branches. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA orientalis ‘Tom Thumb’ | Oriental Spruce | Bright gold needles on layered branches. Low mounding form. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ | Blue Spruce | Dense upright semi-dwarf with intense blue color. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Blue Pearl’ | Dwarf Blue Spruce | A slow-growing dwarf, rounded at first, later developing the true spruce shape with bright blue foliage. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Dietz Prostrate’ | Weeping Blue Spruce | A pendulous form with good blue color. Stake for height. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Gebelle’s Golden Spring’ | Blue Spruce | Bright yellow new growth contrasts with the mature blue-green foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Glauca Procumbens’ | Prostrate Blue Spruce | An irregular, ground-hugging form with powder blue needles and some ascending branches. |
1 foot tall by 8 feet wide | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Maigold’ | Blue Spruce | Bright yellow spring growth on this dense growing pyramid contrasts with the older blue-green foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘St. Mary’s Broom’ | Dwarf Blue Spruce | A dwarf, blue, bun-shaped selection, this slow-growing plant has relatively long, widely angled needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PICEA pungens ‘Walnut Glen’ | Blue Spruce | Upright pyramidal tree with golden-yellow over powder blue needles. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS banksiana ‘Schoodic’ | Dwarf Jack Pine | A mat-forming selection with short, emerald green needles. Very hardy and adaptable. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS banksiana ‘Uncle Fogy’ | Weeping Jack Pine | A pendulous form with widely undulating branches. Grows 2 feet tall by 10 feet wide. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS cembra ‘Blue Mound’ | Dwarf Swiss Stone Pine | Deep rich blue-green foliage on a mounding plant. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS cembra ‘J4 Compact’ | Dwarf Swiss Stone Pine | Not much information on this new selection! |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Full sun | 4 |