Category | Name | Othername | Zone | Size | Growthrate | Water | Pollination | Bloom | Color | Time | Light | Comments | ||
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Conifer Trees | WEEPING BLUE SPRUCE | Picea pungens pendula | 3 | Slow to medium | X | Dense weeping branches give a cascading waterfall effect; size depends on stakin More ... | ||||||||
Conifer Trees | COMPACT LACEBARK PINE | Pinus bungeana 'Rowe Arboretum' | 5 | 30 x 20 | Slow | M | Beautifully shaped uniform tree with patchwork brown green and white bark as it More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | TANYOSHO JAPANESE PINE | Pinus densiflora 'Umbraculifera' | 4 | 10 x 7 | Slow to medium | X | Dwarf umbrella-like head with dense upright-spreading branches; orange bark colo More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | VANDERWOLF PINE | Pinus flexilis 'Vanderwolf's' | 4 | 20 x 12 | Medium | X | Handsome blue-green soft needles; pyramidal form; may not like clay soil | |||||||
Conifer Trees | AUSTRIAN PINE | Pinus nigra | 50 x 30 | Medium | XX | Vigorous tough pine looks much like our native ponderosa | ||||||||
Conifer Trees | BRECO AUSTRIAN PINE | Pinus nigra 'Breco' | 3 | 8 x 5 | Medium | XX | Looks like a Tanyosho pine but is an Austrian | |||||||
Conifer Trees | COLUMNAR AUSTRIAN PINE | Pinus nigra 'Columnar Arnold Sentinel' | 4 | 20 x 6 | Medium | XX | Great for a strong vertical accent where space is limited; nice dark green folia More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | PONDEROSA PINE | Pinus ponderosa | 3 | 70 x 25 | Medium | XXX | Native with long needles and open growth habit | |||||||
Conifer Trees | SOUTHWEST WHITE PINE | Pinus strobiformis | 5 | 40 x 30 | Medium | XX | Excellent soft needled evergreen native to our mountains | |||||||
Conifer Trees | EASTERN WHITE PINE | Pinus strobus | 3 | 50 x 20 | Fast | M | Beautiful soft pine but intolerant of soil salts and high pH; also available in More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | FRENCH BLUE SCOTCH PINE | Pinus sylvestris 'French Blue' | 3 | 40 x 20 | Medium | X | Blue needles hold their color through the winter; uniform and compact growth hab More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | POM POM SCOTCH PINE | Pinus sylvestris 'Pom Pom' | 3 | Depends on pruning | Medium | X | Pruned into pom-poms on branch ends; needs attentive pruning to maintain shape | |||||||
Conifer Trees | DOUGLAS FIR | Pseudotsuga menziesii glauca | 4 | 40 x 12 | Medium | M | Better at our higher elevations | |||||||
Conifer Trees | BALD CYPRESS | Taxodium distichum | 4 | 40 x 20 | Medium | M-W | Deciduous conifer; needles turn orange then drop in winter; best on moist acidic More ... | |||||||
Conifer Trees | HICKS YEW | Taxus x media 'Hicksii' | 4 | 12 x 6 | Slow | M | Columnar shrub is narrow in youth fatter with age | |||||||
Conifer Trees | DEGROOT'S SPIRE ARBORVITAE | Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's' | 3 | 20 x 6 | Medium | M | Thick green foliage on narrow upright evergreen; best in part shade | |||||||
Conifer Trees | EMERALD ARBORVITAE | Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' | 3 | 20 x 5 | Medium | M | Best in part shade; emerald-green foliage forms a neat pyramid | |||||||
Coniferous Shrubs | GOLD COAST JUNIPER | Juniperus chinensis 'Gold Coast' | 4 | 3 x 5 | Medium | XX | Graceful compact form with golden-yellow new growth that deepens in color in col More ... | |||||||
Coniferous Shrubs | MINT JULEP JUNIPER | Juniperus chinensis 'Mint Julep' | 4 | 4 x 6 | Medium | XX | Arching branches with bright green foliage | |||||||
Coniferous Shrubs | OLD GOLD JUNIPER | Juniperus chinensis 'Old Gold' | 4 | 3 x 4 | Medium | XX | A compact plant; bronze-gold foliage throughout plant | |||||||