Conifers
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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Conifer | PINUS koraiensis ‘Silveray’ | Korean Pine | Upright blue form with extra large cones. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS heldreichii (leucodermis)‘Smidtii’ | Dwarf Bosnian Pine | Cute, lime-green bun-shaped miniature Bosnian pine. Very slow growing. Great for the rock garden. 10’ at 100 years!! |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Carstens’ | Gold Mugo Pine | A low-mounding form with the needles turning bright gold in winter |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Little Goldstar’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | A very slow-growing pine with golden yellow foliage that is most intense in winter. Habit is mounding. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Minima Kalous’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | A mini-bun with short, bright green needles. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Paradekissen’ | Mountain Pine | Forms a dense, tidy, spreading mound that looks like a green pillow. Great in a rock garden as a slow-growing ground cover. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Sherwood Compact’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | Dark green needles form a compact globe. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Valley Cushion’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | A very compact form that grows wider than tall. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘White Bud’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | Large late winter buds appear white due to a thick resin. Habit is low and mounding. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | 2 | |||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Bambino’ | Dwarf Austrian Black Pine | Tight, rounded, mounded habit; very dwarf and very slow growing; long thin, green needles. Sometimes called ‘Gaelle Bregeon’. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Black Prince’ | Dwarf Austrian Black Pine | A low, mounded form with stiff, dark green needles and white buds, which are excellent winter interest. Becomes somewhat more pyramidal with age. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Helga’ | Dwarf Austrian Pine | A slow-growing rounded form with rich green needles and prominent buds. Has the appearance of a Japanese Black Pine. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Komet’ | Austrian Pine | An excellent vertical accent with upward growing branches and narrow habit. Attractive dark green needles from white buds. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Pierrick Bregeon’ | Dwarf Austrian Pine | A cross between Pinus densiflora and nigra, very small and flattened globose form with dense branching. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Blue Angel’ (Blauer Engel) | Japanese White Pine | An upright form with very light blue, silvery needles. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Blue Lou’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A dense-growing upright mound with blue-gray needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Fukuzumi’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A good natural Bonsai form with silvery blue-green twisted needles and irregular wide-spreading habit. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Glauca Brevifolia’ | Japanese White Pine | A tall, moderately narrow tree with an open habit and blue-green needles in tight bundles; many persistent cones at a young age. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Goldilocks’ | Japanese White Pine | A form with long blue-green needles overlaid with gold. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Hillieri’ | Japanese White Pine | Dwarf, narrow, upright pine with irregular branching. Produces beautiful cones, like all Japanese white pines. |
3-4 feet | Full sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Kinpo’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A slow-growing form with dark blue-green needles and an irregular picturesque habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS peuce ‘Pacific Blue’ | Macedonian Pine | Beautiful long, thin blue needles on a dense-growing upright pyramid. An Iseli Nursery introduction. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS pumila ‘Blue Dwarf’ | Dwarf Siberian Pine | Dwarf plant, wider than high, with short incurved blue needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS pumila ‘Chlorocarpa’ | Dwarf Siberian Pine | A dense low spreader with greenish cones growing 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide in 10 years. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Louie’ | White Pine | Golden foliage all year. Found and introduced by Vermonter Greg Williams. Habit is upright and pyramidal. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Pendula’ | Weeping White Pine | Graceful weeping tree with soft-textured blue-green needles. Grows as wide as tall. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus x ayachuite ‘Domingo’ | Hybrid White Pine | Densely pyramidal in shape, a relatively fast grower, and richly blue-green in color. Needs less pruning to keep its shape. It has long, soft, blue green needles. Drought resistant. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) 6-12 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS sylvestris ‘Albyn Prostrata’ | Dwarf Scotch Pine | One of the best prostrate Scotch pines with needles that remain blue in winter. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS sylvestris ‘Gold Coin’ | Scotch Pine | A cultivar with almost translucent, glowing yellow needles in winter. Form is upright and dense. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS schwernii ‘Wiethorst’ | Schwerin Hybrid Pine | A dwarf selection from a cross between P. strobus and P. wallachiana. Soft green needles with a silver reverse. Forms a broad upright pyramid. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | SCIADOPITYS verticillata ‘Picola’ | Dwarf Japanese Umbrella Pine | Needles are glossy green and arranged in whorls. A pyramidal dwarf cultivar. Needs careful siting in Vermont. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | SCIADOPITYS verticillata ‘Winter Green’ | Japanese Umbrella Pine | Needles are long, dark green and arranged in whorls. This cultivar is compact with excellent winter color. Needs careful siting in Vermont. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | TAXUS cuspidata ‘Emerald Spreader’ | Spreading Yew | Low-spreading cultivar with attractive emerald green foliage. |
30 inches tall by 8 feet wide | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TAXUS cuspidata ‘Nana Aurescens’ | Dwarf Golden Yew | Low and spreading with bright golden-yellow needles. Slow-growing. Protect from winter sun and wind. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TAXUS media ‘Maureen’ | Dwarf Yew | A narrow, columnar form with dark green needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TAXUS media ‘Taunton’ | Taunton's Yew | A dwarf, spreading cultivar with dark green needles noted for their resistance to winter burn and tolerance of summer heat. Great for hedges, screens and foundation plantings. |
Intermediate (6-12"/year)6-12 feet in 10 years | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Brobeck’s Tower’ | Arborvitae | A narrow, columnar form with twisted fans of bright green foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Filiformis’ | Thread-leaf Arborvitae | Upright form with long thread-like, pendulous branches. Amy calls this plant “Cousin It”. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Malonyana Holub’ | Dwarf Arborvitae | A dwarf form with twisted, congested foliage and irregular habit. Bronze green in winter. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Primo’ | Arborvitae | A dwarf upright form from Iseli Nursery with rich green foliage in sculptural fans like a Hinoki cypress. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Technito’ | Arborvitae | A dense-growing, compact form of Thuja ‘Techny’ with the same bright green color retained through the winter. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Techny’ | Arborvitae | Pyramidal and compact matures at 10-15′ tall. Dark green foliage in flat fan-shaped clusters. |
10-15 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Zmatlik’ | Arborvitae | A slow-growing, narrow, columnar form with twisting foliage similar to T. ‘Degroot’s Spire’. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | THUJOPSIS dolabrata | Staghorn Arborvitae | Unusual flattened sprays of emerald green foliage on a lovely conifer from northern Japan. Shelter from winter sun and wind in Vermont. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Bacon Cristata’ | Bacon Cristate Canadian Hemlock | Extremely dwarf, cristate hemlock that was found in the wild in northern New Jersey about 1925 by Ralph Bacon. Produces both ultra-dense, bright green foliage and short, dark green, twisted needles with white striations on the reverse. |
dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Bergman’s Heli’ | Bergman's Hello Canadian Hemlock | Bright lime-green new growth in spring on this rare dwarf hemlock. |
dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Betty Rose’ | Betty Rose Canadian Hemlock | A dwarf, mounded, slow-growing cultivar that is noted for its white-tipped foliage that takes on a blush of light pink in spring. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Geneva’ | Geneva Canadian Hemlock | Although a compact, slow-growing, small tree, it generally grows in a shrubby rounded form with deep green needles. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Greenwood Lakes’ | Greenwood Lake Canadian Hemlock | A miniature selection of Canadian hemlock with irregular branching and short, bright-green foliage that is especially attractive on the new growth. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Hussii’ | Hussii Canadian Hemlock | A dwarf cultivar that is erect and irregular with an open appearance. It has congested dark green foliage. Cones and buds are typically small and the bark is usually brown and furrowed. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 |