Abies—Fir |
White—60h x 20w Native resembling Blue Spruce with softer needles. Does best in well drained acid or neutral soil. Best for the foothills or protected residential lots |
Candicans—Extremely blue form of White Fir with same needle and requirements. |
Arizona or Cork—30h x 12w Smaller and denser than the White Fir |
Cedrus—Cedar |
Blue Atlas—40h x 30w Short, stiff blue needle pyramidal evergreen. |
Weeping—Easily trained to any shape—great accent plant |
Deodar—60h x 30w Light to medium green short needled evergreen. Draping branches |
Larch—Larch |
European or Japanese—40h x 20w Soft deep green deciduous foliage with golden yellow
fall color. Native to Idaho called Tamarac when sold as firewood. |
Weeping Larch—Same foliage as above with long pendulous branches. Great accent or pond plant. |
Picea—Spruce |
Colorado Green Spruce—70h x 30w Sharply pointed stiff short green needles. Tolerates most conditions—acid, moist, dry or alkaline soils. |
Colorado Blue Spruce—Same as above but needles are blue. One of the favorites in our area. |
Bakeri—40h x 20w Good silvery-blue color with a pyramid habit |
Creeping—Low mounding form to use as a ground cover for large sites. |
Fat Albert—40h x 30w Blue color, growing large and quite wide i.e. Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert |
Hoopsii— 35h x 15w Steel blue and heavier needle than species. Irregular growth when young. |
Globe—6h x 6w Slow growing rounded blue spruce |
RH Montgomery—12h x 5w Pyramidal form of dwarf tree with good blue color |
Norway—-60h x 20w Short dark green needles without stiff points. |
Weeping Norway—Same type of needles. Wonderful accent |
Repens—2h x 6w Compact dwarf form resembling a green birds nest. Likes
afternoon shade. |
Serbian—50h x 20w Short blue-green needle, with draping branches - dense |
Dwarf—5h x 3w Compact, rounded. Short, stiff blue-green needle |
Pinus—Pine |
Austrian—40h x 15w Long needled dark green pine which retains its lower branches as it matures. Tolerate most sites with wet being exception. |
Dwarf Austrian—25h x 8w Same in most aspects except for size. |
Hornibrookiana—15h x 15w Globe form of Austrian with shorter habit. |
Arnold’s Sentinel—30h x 6w Columnar form. |
Oregon Green—30h x 10w Smaller with very stiff dark green needles. |
Bristlecone—16h x6w Slow growing native. Irregular, upright. Dark green needles flecked with white spotting. |
Bosnian—20h x 10w Densely branched, dark green stiff needle. Upright growth |
Eastern White—50h x 15w A long soft green needle with blue band underneath.
Usually open airy look with soft swishing sound during the winds. Does not tolerate wet soils. |
Columnar—25h x 8w Same as above only narrower. |
Contorted—30h x 15w Twisted needles and branches resembling a perm. |
Dwarf—6h x 10w Compact, rounded form. |
Himalayan—40h x 15w Open, airy, very long soft 5-needle pine |
Jeffrey—80h x 30w Native to Sierras. Medium green long stiff needles. Self lower limbing as it matures. |
Mugo—8h x 8w to 20h x 15w Multi stem shrub with green needles. Extremely variable growth with longer needles exhibiting larger shrub. |
Many varieties tout smaller growth habit: Slowmound, Oregon Jade, Pumilio, Tyrolean, Valley Cushion
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Pinon—20h x 10w Slow growing 2-needle native. |
Ponderosa—80h x 30w Native to Sierras. Medium green long stiff needles. Self lower limbing as it matures. |
Scotch—40h x 20w Medium length green blue needles. Irregular in growth habit when young. |
Columnar—30h x 6w Good in the valleys since heavy snows will break branches.
Dwarf—8h x 8w Compact, rounded to pyramidal form.
Hillside Creeper—3h x 20w Groundcover pine for large areas
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Tanyosho—10h x 10w Compact, rounded pine with long soft green needles. |
Vanderwolf’s Limber—40h x 15w Dense soft blue-green needles with extremely
flexible branchesVanderwolf’s Limber. Nice pyramidal. |
Western White—40h x 20w Soft needled, open, flexible pine |
Sequoia-Redwood Giant—80h Stately, pyramidal specimen. Bronze winter color. |
Weeping—40h Same as Giant, but pendulous branching
Hazel Smith—80h Same as Giant, but blue foliage. Same winter color.
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