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White fir is a popular conifer of Czech and Slovak gardens and parks. It is demanded for its glaucous foliage colour. Nurseries take good care to select only the seedlings that have the most attractive colour because this fir occurs naturally in the range of dark green where only the young shoots ar ...
15 - 30m
2 - 6m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
We always love presenting unusual and rare plants. Among those we only select the ones that are not just rare but also beautiful and can enrich your garden with a new feature. This time we have a real jewel for conifer lovers.
It is a dwarf Korean fir named “Brillant”. It is a compact and almost ...
0,2 - 0,3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Molli is a dwarf variety of Korean fir from late 20th century. It is a compact, smaller version of common Korean fir with rich green, short, glossy needles with silver-grey film underneath. It grows slowly and develops a more or less regular conical shape. It always has a central leader giving it a ...
1 - 2,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Caucasian fir is perhaps the most beautiful conifer of our climate. No wonder that it is also a commercial bestseller as a Christmas tree. Its short needles densely cover the branches; they are deep green and very glossy, with silvery undersides. Fresh growths are intensely bright green.
The growth ...
12 - 18m
3 - 5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Spanish fir is one of the most popular conifers with blue needles. It is also called hedgehog fir as the needles are short and stiff, regularly composed around its branches. The shape is broadly conical, very neat and regular.
Glauca has striking silvery-blue needles which make it easy to combine w ...
3 - 5m
1,5 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Monkey puzzle tree is a conifer that originates from Chile but we have a special selection for you which comes from Italy and is hardier and more reliable in our continental climate.
It is called Robusta Gheri and is the only one that survived winter of 1985 in Tuscany when temperature dropped do ...
2 - 4m
2 - 3m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Although this incense cedar is one of the most sought after conifers of the south, it seems to perform much better in Czech climate thanks to cold and wet winters. It needs a lot of sun in summer though to keep its varigated leaves golden. Though, if the sun is not as hot as in the Mediterranean, fo ...
5 - 10m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Would you like a fairy tale? Once upon a time, out of nowhere, a little witch’s broom appeared in gardens – a mutated, dwarf form of the Atlas cedar that was given the lapidary name Compacta. Meaning compact and small. True, it’s not terribly original. They could just as well have called it Bilbo, b ...
1 - 2,5m
1 - 2m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like cedars or perhaps if you are a collector or just an enthusiast don’t miss this one. It is a beautiful example of a form that is rarely seen in private gardens or arboretums.
Fastigiata is an attractive form of Atlas cedar with strictly narrow, columnar habit. Its evergreen, short need ...
4 - 8m
1 - 2m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fastigiata Glauca is a blue green or silvery blue version of an attractive form of Atlas cedar Fastigiata with strictly narrow, columnar habit. Its lateral branches are short and densely cover the leader. If a branch goes mad and grows too long in the unwanted direction just clip it, any time of yea ...
4 - 8m
1 - 2m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Glauca is a very popular blue‑tinged form of the Atlas cedar. It is not a single cultivar with completely uniform characteristics, but botanically a form – a group of individuals selected from the species, which, thanks to its chameleon‑like variability in needle colour, can display a wh ...
10 - 20m
10 - 15m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Glauca Pendula represents a truly distinctive form of the Atlas cedar, offering an almost aristocratic character. This cultivar was discovered and selected in France around 1873, in the horticultural setting of Châtenay‑les‑Sceaux near Paris, then a centre of botanical experimentation an ...
2 - 4m
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Deodar – Himalayan cedar is the most graceful of all cedars. It has strictly pyramidal habit when young, spreading branching and weeping ends. The needles are short, mid green, borne in whorls of 20-30. Female cones appear in summer. Older plants form unique shapes.
This is probably the most ...
10 - 20m
5 - 6m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Deodar – Himalayan cedar is the most graceful of all cedars. It has strictly pyramidal habit when young, spreading branching and weeping ends. Aurea is an extremely attractive variety with golden-yellow to yellow-green needles. They are evergreen, borne in whorls of 20-30. Female cones appear ...
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Himalayan cedar is the most graceful of all cedars. Bushes Electra is a slower growing variety bred by Richard Bush in Canby, USA, at the turn of the century. It bears showy, 2-3 cm long, needles of silvery blue colour on insolated parts of the plant, and blue-green color inside the bush. The side b ...
4 - 7m
2 - 3m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Feelin‘ Blue is a striking Dutch introduction of Himalayan cedar, which in fact turned out to be one of the most reliable cedars we ever had. Formerly a ground-covering plant is often staked up to a bamboo stick in order to form an appearance of a classic but much smaller cedar tree with pictu ...
0,2 - 3m
0,5 - 3m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Horizon is an interesting variety of Himalayan cedar with weeping branches. The needles are evergreen, yellow-green when young and in summer, turning blue-green as they mature and in the shade. The shape of the shrub is irregular, making horizontal branches with weeping ends.
It grows slowl ...
1 - 1,5m
1 - 3m
full sun
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Himalájský cedr is the most graceful of all cedars. Robusta Glauca is an Italian selection with long, evergreen needles. Their colour is from blue-green to almost silvery blue while new shoots are soft green. Robusta Glauca cedar is unique for its robust structure with strong stem and habit which is ...
10 - 15m
5 - 7m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The Lebanon cedar is a magnificent evergreen conifer, aristocratic yet entirely natural in appearance. It offers a dense framework of almost horizontal, sturdy branches and a regular, broadly conical crown, whose pronounced terminal leader conveys youthful elegance. After reaching a certain age and ...
15 - 30m
10 - 20m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese plum yew is still an uncommon evergreen conifer which was first popularized by Earl of Harrington in early 19th century. It is hardy for almost the whole area of Central Europe except for the coldest mountainous regions, and can take diversity of soil types. It comes from Japan and Fastigia ...
1,5 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese cedars proved to grow happily in our garden where winter temperatures sometimes drop to -27°C. They showed no damage whatsoever and thrive.
Cristata is a weird looking variety with congested new growths that are flattened into “cockscombs” and divide into individual branches in ...
3 - 6m
1 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese cedars proved to grow happily in our garden where winter temperature dropped to -27°C a couple of times. They showed no damage whatsoever and thrive. This variety has one more plus as opposed to other cryptomerias – it does not change its colour to coppery brown in winter and remains ...
2 - 6m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
One of the most beautiful conifers of our climate is Japanese cedar. There are many species and varieties. Globosa Nana was first discovered in 1923 in Japan, where it is called Mitama-sugi.
It is a dense, compact conifer with rounded branches. The needles are curved, inward-pointing, bright green ...
1 - 1,8m
1 - 1,3m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Following the success Little Champion variety, Little Diamond is another dwarf Japanese cedar variety with a spherical habit. It originated in the Netherlands in 1990, and its beauty inspired the growers to train it into a gorgeous little tree with a single trunk. Since Little Diamond grows slowly, ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sekkan is a gorgeous evergreen conifer not only for Japanese gardens. It forms a fat, cone-shaped shrub or small tree with bright, sulphur-yellow or creamy-yellow new growths. They remain yellow throughout the year until next spring when they turn deep green and are replaced by new foliage that is a ...
3 - 8m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Gold Rider is still quite new in the Leyland cypress family. It produces flattened sprays of bright yellow-green, scale-like leaves. The branches are not pendent, not erect. Something in between and that makes it stand apart from chamaecyparis. The big advantage of Leyland cypress is the fact that i ...
2 - 10m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Leyland cypress is a hybrid genus between cupressus macrocarpa and chamaecyparis nootkatensis. It is a fast growing conifer, used mainly in hedges and as windbreak.
It produces flattened sprays of scale-like, dark green leaves. The branches are not pendent, not erect. Something in between and that ...
2 - 12m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Fastigiata Arizona cypress is a favourite even in gardens where conifers aren’t typically welcome, thanks to its distinctive character, texture, and color. It grows upright and compact, with branches forming a sharper angle with the trunk, emphasizing its columnar habit. The foliage is soft to the t ...
5 - 10m
2 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The cultivar Fastigiata Aurea of the Arizona cypress is a true delicacy among conifers. It likely originated as a horticultural selection in France during the second half of the 20th century, although precise details about its development are not documented in the literature. Unlike ‘Fastigiata’, it ...
3 - 6m
1 - 2m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The cultivar Sulphurea of the Arizona cypress was bred in France in 1963 and stands out like a sunbeam among conifers – its young shoots shine with a bright yellow hue that gradually matures into a warm chartreuse tone but never fades completely. It grows upright, with looser branching than ‘Fastigi ...
3 - 6m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Now for the cultivar Totem. The name itself suggests a plant with the character of a sculpture – and that is exactly what it is. Totem is an extremely narrow, columnar cultivar of Tuscan cypress, like a green sword thrust into the ground. It grows slowly yet steadily, holding its shape like a soldie ...
4 - 8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
7 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Cypress trees and shrubs are very popular for their variable shapes, leaf types and colours. Stardust is a variety with almost flat needles of pale green colour near the main stem, grading to greenish-yellow towards the bright golden-yellow ends of the branches which tend to droop slightly as they g ...
3 - 6m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The Hinoki cypress is both a must-see and a must-have thereafter. Its dark green foliage is tightly congested, forming a tiny mound. It forms twisting fan-shaped branchlets in dense tiered layers.
Want to ask how fast it grows? Well it takes the same time as your partner does getting prepared for ...
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This false cypress is a dwarf, mound forming variety belonging to the Filifera group, which means it has thread-like branches. In fact, some call these branches leaves. Practically the leaves are scales that cover the whip-like branches. Filifera Nana is a green version, very slow growing, ideal in ...
0,3 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hibernica juniper belongs among the oldest cultivated columnar forms of common juniper, and its origin is traditionally associated with Ireland (Hibernia), from which its name is derived. It is not the result of deliberate breeding, but rather a selection of a naturally upright form from the wild, i ...
3 - 5m
1 - 2m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Creeping juniper is a useful and maintenance-free shrub, popular with landscapers because it is trouble-free, easy to grow, and needs very little care – virtually none. It comes from Canada and forms evergreen cushions of various colours. Andorra Variegata is an eye-catching variety with cream ...
0,3 - 0,4m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue Arrow juniper is as thin as a supermodel. This conifer has a truly slim, columnar habit and attractive blue-green to almost silvery blue colour. It is often compared to another juniper variety called Skyrocket against which it has a big advantage – Blue Arrow has shorter branches that do ...
1,5 - 2,5m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Zebra grass, formerly known as Strictus, is an old favourite among eulalias. It has stiff, upright, bright green leaves with horizontal creamy yellow stripes which make it the popular zebra appearance. Flowering is quite rare and occurs only in years with long summers and warm autumns. Spike-like fl ...
1,3 - 2m
1,3 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Acrocona is a beauty among Norway spruces. It is a smaller variety with picturesque cones at the tips of the branches. They are small, rich raspberry red and appear from May. Later they turn brown as they mature.
Needles are medium short, deep green, and prickly. The habit is somewhat narrowly con ...
V - VI
3 - 5m
3 - 4m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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The word that most conifer lovers are likely to think of when they first see Brewer spruce is graceful. No wonder, because its long, frilled streamers of branchlets cascading from the scaffold branches turn the tree into a living waterfall. The habit is narrowly conical to columnar in youth, gradual ...
8 - 15m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Echiniformis is a very slow growing variety of white spruce. It bears evergreen needles that are short, only about 7 mm long, they are blue-green and look great when there is a deep green background and dark brown mulch underneath. Being a dwarf plant it will fit even the smallest of gardens. 25 yea ...
0,3 - 0,6m
0,8 - 1,3m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Caucasian spruce is an attractive conifer with an interesting habit. Lateral branches grow horizontally first, later they rise a bit upwards in an angle of about 45° while new growths are slightly drooping. Aureospicata is a variety with bright yellow new foliage that lasts for as long as 6 weeks.
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8 - 15m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue Diamond is a true jewel. This conifer is a variety of Colorado spruce with intensely blue coloured needles with silver overlay. They are quite prickly and evergreen. It grows about 15 cm per year, and only 10 cm upwards making about 1m tall plant in 10 years time. It is well branched from the b ...
4 - 7m
1 - 3m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BREPO® is a very decorative dwarf pine variety. It has bright green, long needles that are thinner than p.nigra but are similarly stiff. It naturally forms symmetrical, mounding shrubs which need no trimming whatsoever. It grows very slowly - only about 5 cm per year. It will look great as a s ...
0,5 - 1,5m
0,5 - 1,3m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Compacta Glauca is an arolla pine variety of reduced size. It was selected by C.Frets & Son nursery in Boskoop, the Netherlands, around 1930, in a field of older variety called Glauca which had been known since 1860's. It exhibits much denser and congested growth, and produces about 10 cm long needl ...
3 - 5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
There are about 20 currently registered varieties of Japanese red pine and if you admire Mediterranean stone pines with their rounded crowns, take a look at this variety, which shares several similar traits but is perfectly suited to temperate climates. Its name is Alice Verkade, and it is truly a g ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rocky Mountains white pine is a North American pine species whose origin ranges through the Rocky Mountains of Alberta in Canada down to Colorado, USA. It has distinctively flexible young twigs and soft, blue-green to silvery-blue needles. Female cones are yellow-brown, 8-15 cm long, and are borne a ...
5 - 9m
1 - 2,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BAMBINO® is another beautiful dwarf hybrid pine, following success of its forerunners Marie Brégeon and BREPO®. It has medium to dark green, 3-4 cm long needles that recall those of pinus mugo. The plant naturally forms symmetrical, mounding shrubs which need no trimming whatsoever, and gr ...
0,5 - 0,8m
0,8 - 1,3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bosnian pine is one of the posh pines with a typical, almost perfect conical shape. Compact Gem is an excellent choice for even the smallest of gardens as it grows slowly and does not exceed 3m when fully mature.
Needles are born in two’s, they are deep green, glossy and hard, always vertica ...
1 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pine trees are superb trees which grow in a wide climate scale - from cold northern countries to hot coastal sites. They are probably most beautiful in their natural environment.
Satellit is a narrowly columnar variety of Bosnian pine. Thanks to slow growth and limited size it is suitable for smal ...
3 - 6m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ammerland is a very decorative, medium-sized western pine. These pines come from western parts of North America but this variety was bred in German Jeddeloh.
Its needles are borne in whorls of 5. They are mostly erect, stiff, blue-green, long. The shape of this pine is rather conical, looking bett ...
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Carsten’s Wintergold is a selection of very popular Wintergold with stunning winter colour. The needles are deep green from mid spring until early autumn. Then they begin turning yellow and from end autumn until the last cold days of spring they are vivid yellow. This colour is unbeatable so f ...
0,3 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Columbo is a mountain pine that has absolutely nothing to do with inspector Colombo. Its original name given in 1984 was Columnaris and it perfectly described its columnar habit. It grows slowly and dense, bears short, dark green, stiff needles borne in pairs. Thanks to its compact habit and columna ...
1 - 3m
0,5 - 1,3m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Would you like a gnom for your garden? Not the one from plaster, a living one – a dwarf pine called the same name = Gnom. This one is very beautiful, slow and dense growing with short to medium sized, dark green needles. It is mound-forming when young, making a shrub about 60 cm tall and almos ...
1 - 2,5m
1 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mughus is a subspecies of dwarf mountain pine with even more compact and slower growth. It has very dense habit and dark green, short needles. It looks great in a large rockery as well as in a Japanese-style garden where it creates a perfect cushion image.
Pines need slightly moist soil when gettin ...
0,6 - 1m
0,6 - 1,8m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Winter Gold is an excellent variety of dwarf mountain pine that has all positives of the species and on top of that brings golden yellow needle colour in winter and early spring. The colder it gets the more yellow it turns. It grows very slowly into a mounding shrub about 1.5m tall and 2m wide in ma ...
0,5 - 1,5m
0,8 - 2m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you are looking for a variety of dwarf mountain pine that grows wide but remains compact and not very tall go for this subspecies called pumilio. It is a beautiful mound-forming shrub with short, deep green needles with a touch of grass green shade. It makes uneven lengths of new growth which mak ...
0,5 - 1,5m
0,8 - 2m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Green Tower is a fastigiate and dwarf variety of Austrian pine. It was found as a seedling, possibly of Pyramidalis variety, by Martin Zimmer in late 1990's. It has about 10 cm, stiff, dark green needles borne in whorls of 2. It grows slowly - 20 cm per year and makes a very narrow tree which will ...
2 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
After a huge success with BREPO® variety, a breeder of pines from Switzerland Henri Bregeon comes up with another dwarf pine variety, this time called Marie Bregeon. It is a result of a controlled crossbreeding of pinus nigra and pinus densiflora, both of which were H.Bregeon’s own select ...
0,5 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Oregon Green is a very beautiful addition to the family of small to mid-sized pine trees. It was found as a seedling by Morris Van Meter in his nursery in Boring, Oregon, USA, in early 1990's. It is easily distinguished by its stiff habit with erect branches where needles are borne in such density a ...
4 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Austrian (black) pine was first classified by Austrian botanist Johann Arnold in 1785. It is a hardy tree which escaped Austria in early 20th century, and can now be found all around Europe, down to Turkey, and in North Africa. Hard to say if Mother Nature needed a stronger substitute for more tende ...
10 - 30m
6 - 8m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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You don’t need to be an expert or collector to fall in love at first sight with the Negishi cultivar of Japanese White Pine, although it’s true that bonsai enthusiasts seek this one out deliberately – it is a true aristocrat among dwarf forms. It bears silvery blue-green needles in bundles of five, ...
1,5 - 2,5m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Italian stone pine, often called just umbrella pine, is a long-lived conifer with fresh green, evergreen, and relatively soft needles 10-20 cm long, which grow in pairs and densely cover the branches creating an impenetrable screen. Young plants grown from seeds till the age of about ten years first ...
10 - 20m
8 - 15m
full sun
7 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
White (Waymouth) pines are very popular for their soft needles which you want to touch over and over again. They are usually long and come in whorls of 5.
Minima is a dwarf variety suitable for small and mid-sized gardens. It grows slowly, forming a compact and rounded head, either grafted on a ste ...
0,5 - 1m
0,5 - 1,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tiny Curls is a picturesque selection of white pine with twisted needles and straight trunk and branches. The needles are mid green with a silver stripe. It is very similar to another variety with twisted needles called Torulosa but Tiny Curls show much more symmetrical growth, forming a compact, co ...
1 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like pines with soft needles, white pines are the best choice. Radiata is an old variety from 1923 which is a slow grower with silvery blue-green needles decorated with green underneath. The appearance is fluffy and you feel like touching it everytime you pass it.
Radiata forms a mounding h ...
1,5 - 4m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Moseri is a dwarf variety of Scots Pine from Moser Nursery in Versailles, France, from 1900. It has long, slightly twisted needles of soft green colour in summer and rich golden yellow in winter. It grows very slowly (8-12 cm per year) and naturally forms dense, broadly pyramidal shrubs with rounded ...
2 - 3m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Watereri is a small, slow-growing pine which is also commercially known under the name “Nana” – a typical name for many dwarf plants. Its needles are borne in pairs, dark green with only a hint of blue-green in summer, and more bluish in cold months of autumn and winter. It is very ...
2 - 4m
1 - 4m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Uncinata is a subspecies of mountain pine. Its main difference from dwarf mountain pine is a central leader which helps it make a tree character. Also, this pine is much taller in full maturity as opposed to common mountain pine, forming a widely pyramidal habit, slightly irregular. Uncinata is comm ...
10 - 20m
3 - 6m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aurea Nana is a dwarf conifer with golden-yellow, scale-like leaves. It belongs to cypress family and is known under its other name – oriental thuja. It grows slowly, keeps it compact shape and dense habit and is suitable for cultivation on short stems.
Platycladus is a trouble-free conifer w ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The needles of Japanese umbrella pine are distinctive: soft, almost fleshy, flexible, 5–12 cm long, deep green, and strikingly glossy. Botanically, they are not true needles, but unusual leaf‑like structures formed by the fusion of two needles, a fact confirmed by their internal anatomy. They ...
3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese umbrella pine is an exquisite-looking conifer resembling pine thanks to its needles but botanically it has nothing in common with them. Did you fall in love with this gorgeous conifer but the species is too large for your small garden? Worries gone – there is a new dwarf selection fro ...
1 - 2,5m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Irish yew is a popular evergreen conifer. They are very practical due to many varieties available offering various shapes and sizes. Another advantage is that they grow well in both full sun and in deep shade.
Fastigiata has strictly upright, narrow habit. It grows very slowly which makes it suitab ...
3 - 7m
1 - 2m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fastigiata Robusta is a slender growing variety of columnar yew that originated probably in Italy in 1950. It is similar to its parent variety Fastigiata but much slimmer, like a model who prefers not to eat to stay slim forever. The needles are dark green, glossy, longer than on the species, and e ...
3 - 6m
0,4 - 1m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Semperaurea is an attractive variety of yew. Its evergreen needles are bright yellow on the top of the shrub from spring to autumn and change to orange or golden yellow in winter. Foliage inside the shrub and on not insolated parts grade to mid to deep green. The plants grows at medium speed, making ...
1 - 3m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This yew is a cross between taxus baccata and taxus cuspidata and is called Hillii. It is a small to medium sized shrub of very dense, columnar habit when young, opening slightly at the top with age, with lustrous, soft green needles in summer with golden yellow hues in autumn and winter. This plant ...
2 - 3,5m
0,5 - 1,5m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Smaragd® is an improved version of a very popular arborvitae variety called Smaragd. This new selection has bright yellow-green foliage which turns only a little gold in winter. It was bred by Edward Kubik from Poland, and released in 2009. It grows rather slowly into a conical shape wit ...
4 - 6m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Whipcord is a unique variety of western red cedar which does not resemble any other plant from the arborvitae family. It is a slow growing conifer with thin, whipcord-like, arching branches, which always bend downwards making a relaxed appearance. They are deep green from spring to autumn, and turn ...
0,5 - 1,3m
0,5 - 1,3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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