Conifers
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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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 ‘Propeller’ | Japanese Umbrella Pine | A small tree with medium to dark green needle-shaped leaves. Mature cones are light brown and elongated. Growing slowly it eventually reaches a height of 30-40 feet. |
Intermediate (6-12"/year)6-12 feet in 10 years | Full 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 baccata ‘Amersfoort’ | Amersfoort English Yew | A dwarf cultivar that grows very slowly to 5-8’ tall that form an attractive, slow-growing shrub over the first 10 years with stiff, outward-spreading branches and dark-green, short, oval, flattened needles that are unusual for this species. |
dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in 10 years) | Full 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 ‘Autumn Moon’ | Arborvitae | A nice rounded form with bright yellow fans. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | 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 ‘Filip’s Magic Moment’ | Arborvitae | Yellow-green to gold foliage on a upright conical shrub. A mutation from T. ‘Smaragd’. From Proven Winners. |
6-8 feet tall by 1-3 feet wide | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | THUJA occidentalis ‘Fire Chief’ | Arborvitae | The foliage is bright yellow with an orange cast. When young the plant has foliage like an Erica and is globose. Slowly grows to 9′ pyramid. |
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 ‘Spiralis Mini’ | Arborvitae | A slow-growing, very narrow cultivar with fans of twisted bright green foliage. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
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 ‘Yellow Ribbon’ | Arborvitae | Narrow upright form with bright yellow foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
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 Cristate’ | 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 ‘Berman’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 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Jeddeloh’ | Dwarf Hemlock | A dwarf spreader with an open center resembling a bird’s nest. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Pendula’ | Weeping Hemlock | Weeping hemlock displays spreading branches and dense foliage with a delicate, lacy texture. Graceful, weeping form of Canadian hemlock with good green coloration in the foliage. Well-grown specimens do not create a leader, but will spread out horizontally. |
Large-12 or more inches/year (12 or more feet in 10 years | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA canadensis ‘Sargentii’ | Weeping Hemlock | Pendulous branches may be staked and trained to achieve height. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | TSUGA mertensiana ‘Bump’s Blue’ | Mountain Hemlock | An exceptionally narrow and irregular upright selection of Mountain hemlock with short, somewhat pendulous branches and bright powder-blue needles. On the upper end of what is considered dwarf. Clay/deer tolerant. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in years) | Part Sun/Shade | 5 |