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Cedrus atlantica 'COMPACTA'
(Atlas cedar)

Compacta is an Italian dwarf variety of Atlas cedar. This evergreen conifer has short, sharp, mid green needles. It grows slowly, forming a rounded shrub. To maintain a perfect shape it may be pruned beginning of spring. It is suitable for large rockeries, in full sun. It is ...


	0.5 - 1.8m	0.5 - 1.8m	full sun	6b (down to -21°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus atlantica f. 'GLAUCA'
(blue Atlas cedar)

Blue Atlas cedar has distinct silvery-blue persistent larch-like needles born in whorls of 30-45. This gives a much dense appearance compared with other green cedars. Healthy young tree is well branched from the ground and retains its bottom branches. Young plants have conical habit which wit ...


	10 - 20m	5 - 12m	full sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus deodara
(deodar cedar)

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 ...


	10 - 20m	5 - 6m	full sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus deodara 'FEELIN' BLUE'
(deodar cedar)

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 clas ...


	0.2 - 3m	0.5 - 3m	full sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus deodara 'GOLDEN HORIZON'
(Himalayan cedar)

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 e ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 2m	full sun	6b (down to -21°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus deodara 'ROBUSTA GLAUCA'
(Himalayan cedar)

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.


	10 - 15m	5 - 7m	full sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cedrus libani
(cedar of Lebanon)

Cedar of Lebanon is a majestic specimen tree with needle-like dark green to blue-green foliage that looks like larch but is evergreen. Young trees are densely branched from the ground but low branches can be removed in the autumn if planted close to houses to make more room beneath. The branc ...


	10 - 20m	10 - 15m	full sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'DROOPING SOLO'
(Lawson cypress)

Drooping Solo is a Lawson cypress variety discovered by a Dutch conifer lover and horticulturist Wiel Linssen from Baexem. It was a seedling mutation of Imbricata Pendula, a similar variety of much taller but narrower habit ...


	2 - 3m	1.5 - 2m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'IVONNE' ('Yvonne')
(Lawson cypress)

Cypress trees trees and shrubs are very popular for their variable shapes, leaf types and colours. Ivonne variety (or sometimes spelled Yvonne) has almost flat, soft needles of bright greeny-yellow colour from spring to summer, changing to golden-yellow in winter. It grows mediu ...


	3 - 6m		full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'KARACA'
(Lawson cypress)

Karaca is a bright yellow coloured variety of Lawson cypress with picturesque overhanging branches that may resemble Filifera Aurea variety, except that they do not have such prominent brownish-red twigs and form longer and ...


	1.5 - 2m	1 - 1.5m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'PELT'S BLUE'
(Lawson cypress)

Pelt's Blue, or Van Pelt's Blue is a German selection of Lawson cypress bred by Hinrich Kordes Nursery and introduced in 1984. It is an improved version of a very successful variety Columnaris (Glauca) wit ...


	3 - 5m	0.5 - 1m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'STARDUST'
(Lawson cypress)

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 dro ...


	3 - 6m	1 - 2m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'SUNKIST'
(Lawson cypress)

Sunkist is a dwarf, compact Lawson cypress, similar to Mini Globus. It is a slow growing conifer with attractive flat sprays of mid green foliage that is not pric ...


	0.5 - 1m	0.5 - 1m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'WHITE SPOT'
(Lawson cypress)

White Spot is a Lawson cypress variety found as a mutation of Monumentalis Nova variety in D.T.Poulsen Nursery, Denmark, in 1943. It boasts pale blue-green, scale-like needles with subtle white marbling which looks like gli ...


	3 - 5m	0.5 - 1.5m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'COLUMNARIS'
(Lawson cypress)

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ('Columnaris Glauca')

Cypress trees and shrubs are very popular for their variable shapes, leaf types and colours. Variety Columnaris has blue needles and compact shape. It does not grow wider than 1m which makes it ideal for hedges that are only trimmed at the top. Mature plants can reach 6-8m in ma ...


	3 - 6m	1 - 1m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'PENDULA'
(Nootka cypress)

Weeping forms of nootka cypress are darlings among conifers. Their unique structure makes the tree look like a conifer with veils. Pendula is a variety where the main branches are horizontal and deflected, lateral branches ...


	6 - 10m	3 - 5m	full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Teddy Bear'
(Hinoki cypress)

If you call someone a teddy bear, what is he like? Very probably nice, warm-hearted and from the first sight “safe”. This must have been the way of thinking of the breeder of this variety when he was looking for a name for his invention. Teddy Bear is a neat and lovely l ...


	0.3 - 1m	0.3 - 1m	full to partial sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'BOULEVARD'
(false cypress)

Boulevard is a lovely false cypress popular for group plantings. Its needles are soft, awl-shaped, curving, silvery-blue colour. Fully mature it can grow about 3m but usually keeps smaller – 1.5m high and 1m wide. Natural habit is broadly pyramidal. Growth rate is slow to ...


	1 - 3m	0.5 - 1.5m	full to partial sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'FILIFERA AUREA'
(golden thread-leaf sawara cypress)

This false cypress is belongs 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 Aurea is probably the most sought-after variety with golden yello ...


	1 - 3m	1 - 3m	full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'FILIFERA NANA'
(dwarf sawara cypress)

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 sl ...


	0.3 - 1m		full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cryptomeria japonica 'CRISTATA'
(crested Japanese cedar)

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 ...


	3 - 6m	1 - 2.5m	full to partial sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cryptomeria japonica 'ELEGANS VIRIDIS'
(Japanese cedar)

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 r ...


	2 - 6m	2 - 3m	full to partial sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

x Cupressocyparis leylandii 'GOLD RIDER'
(Leyland cypress)

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 apar ...


	2 - 10m	2 - 4m	full to partial sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

x Cupressocyparis leylandii 'ATRO'
(Leyland cypress)

x Cupressocyparis leylandii (syn. '2001')

Atro is one of those smaller, compact varieties of Leyland cypress which can be grown even in a small garden. It was found as a natural mutation in Van den Dool Cultures Nursery in Dutch town Boskoop in 1983. You can also f ...


	2 - 10m	2 - 3m	full sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cupressus arizonica 'FASTIGIATA'
(smooth cypress)

Smooth cypress is an extraordinary conifer whose steel-blue needles will leave no doubt that this one is really something. The species of this cypress comes from SW of the USA, while Fastigiata variety was selected in Italy. It has distinctly silvery-blue to glaucous colour o ...


	5 - 11m	1 - 3m	full sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Cupressus sempervirens 'GARDA'
(Mediterranean cypress)

Garda is a selected form of Tuscan cypress found in the Italian Lake Garda region. It naturally forms slender, evergreen columns, whose dense branches are covered with dark green, scale-like needles that do not lose their c ...