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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. Needle ...


	3 - 5m	3 - 4m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Picea abies 'NIDIFORMIS'
(bird's nest Norway spruce)

Dwarf conifers are very popular in continental Europe, mostly thanks to its evergreen feature and good hardiness. Their sizes never grow over the top which makes them ideal for small-sized gardens and rock gardens, they look good as solitaires as well as in groupings. This bird’s nest spruce h ...


	0.5 - 1m	1 - 2m	full to partial sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Picea abies 'WILL'S ZWERG'
(dwarf Norway spruce)

Another lovely piece for miniature lovers is this dwarf spruce. It grows slowly, compact and dense to it mature height of 3m only after a few decades. Needles are short and stiff, rich green. New branches show bright orangey-brown bark and are short. No pruning needed for dense growth. The ...


	1.5 - 3m	1 - 2m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Picea breweriana
(Brewer spruce)

Brewer spruce is an evergreen conifer native to the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California where it is a rare plant owing to its sparse occurrence. It has a beautiful shape. The stem and inner branches are firm and upright whereas new bra ...


	8 - 15m	3 - 5m	full sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Picea glauca 'J.W. DAISY'S WHITE'
(dwarf white spruce)

J.W. Daisy’s White is another dwarf variety of cone-shaped white spruce found by Canadian breeder J.W. Daisy from Edmonton, Alberta. He was one of the pioneers of the twentieth century in the breeding of conifers, esp ...


	0.5 - 1m	0.4 - 0.6m	full to partial sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Picea pungens 'BLUE DIAMOND'
(dwarf Colorado spruce)

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 upward ...


	4 - 7m	1 - 3m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus 'Gaëlle Brégeon' BAMBINO®
(dwarf hybrid pine)

BAMBINO® is another beautiful dwarf hybrid pine, following success of its forerunners Marie Brégeon and


	0.5 - 0.8m	0.8 - 1.3m	full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus cembra
(Swiss stone pine)

Swiss stone pine is a beautiful one with dark green needles with a silvery stripe. So its overall appearance may seem a little turquoise. It grows slowly, forming a dense conifer with rather irregular growth when young and more or less pyramidal with age. Owing to its slow growth rate, si ...


	6 - 12m	3 - 5m	full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus cembra 'COMPACTA GLAUCA'
(arolla pine)

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' ...


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

Pinus densiflora 'ALICE VERKADE'
(Japanese red pine)

If you like Mediterranean umbrella pines but feel sorry that it is too tender for our climate try to have a look at this selection of dwarf Japanese red pine. It is called Alice Verkade and has bright green, soft needles. It is a slow growing plant making only about 7-10 cm per ...


	1 - 2m	0.5 - 1.5m	full sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus densiflora 'OCULUS DRACONIS'
(Japanese red pine Dragon Eye)

Have you ever seen a pine that would be more decked out than this Dragon Eye Japanese red pine? Its Japanese name is “Ja-nome” and it attracts your attention thanks to its wide creamy yellow bands on long needles. It has quite irregular growth, it mostly spreads to sides so if you want a ...


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

Pinus flexilis 'VANDERWOLF'S PYRAMID'
(Rocky Mountains white pine)

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-b ...


	5 - 9m	1 - 2.5m	full sun	4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus heldreichii 'SATELLIT'
(Bosnian pine)

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 ...


	3 - 6m	1 - 1.5m	full sun	5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus monticola 'AMMERLAND'
(western white pine)

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 rathe ...


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

Pinus mugo 'CARSTEN'S'
(dwarf mugo pine)

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 u ...


	0.3 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.6m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus mugo 'GNOM'
(dwarf mountain pine)

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 needl ...


	1 - 2.5m	1 - 2.5m	full to partial sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus mugo 'OPHIR'
(dwarf mountain pine)

Ophir is a dwarf mountain pine with yellow needle tips from mid autumn until mid spring. They are evergreen, up to 7 cm long, and glossy. In late spring they change back to typical pine green colour. It naturally forms low, ...


	0.8 - 1.3m	1 - 1.8m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus mugo ssp. MUGHUS
(dwarf mountain pine)

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 ...


	0.6 - 1m	0.6 - 1.8m	full sun	2 (down to -45°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus nigra 'GREEN TOWER'
(Austrian pine)

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

Pinus nigra 'MARIE BREGEON'
(dwarf Austrian pine)

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


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

Pinus nigra 'OREGON GREEN'
(Austrian pine)

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 ...


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

Pinus nigra ssp. nigra
(Austrian pine)

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 ...


	10 - 30m	6 - 8m	full to partial sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus pinea SELEKCE
(Italian stone pine)

Being a plant lover based in Europe and perhaps a bit of a traveler, too, I suppose you must have been to the Mediterranean at least once in your life, am I right? And there, you must have come across one of the key features of the Mediterranean landscape apart from the Tuscan cypress – the


	10 - 20m	8 - 15m	full sun	7 (down to -18°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus strobus
(eastern white pine)

One of the tallest pines is this eastern white pine. It has soft, 7-13 cm long needles of light green colour with a bluish tint. Natural growth is upright with pyramidal shape when young, turning slightly wider and irregular as the branches spread to sides and mature. In gardens where it has limited ...


	8 - 20m		full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus strobus 'BLUE SHAG'
(white pine)

I wonder who gave name to this dwarf white pine Blue Shag … I know that “shag” has several meanings, but still. Anyway, this pine is an excellent, fluffy looking variety of Weymouth pine with long, soft ne ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 1.5m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus strobus 'RADIATA'
(dwarf white pine)

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 ...


	1.5 - 4m	1.5 - 2.5m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus sylvestris
(Scots pine)

Scots pine is a European native pine species, and is native in our country, too. Its makes the most beautiful and at the same time the most bizarre specimens in the wild. It bears 5-7 cm long, mid green needles with a slight bluish overlay. They are borne in pairs and remain on the tree for 3 ...


	2 - 15m	2 - 6m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus sylvestris 'AUREA'
(Scots pine)

Scots pine is a European native pine species, and is native in country, too. The green species makes the most beautiful and at the same time the most bizarre specimens in the wild. Aurea is a variety known already since the ...


	2 - 4m	2 - 3m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus sylvestris 'GLAUCA'
(Scots pine)

Scots pine is a European native pine species, and is native in our country, too. Its makes the most beautiful and at the same time the most bizarre specimens in the wild. Glauca is a selected variety with blue green needles ...


	2 - 10m	2 - 6m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pinus sylvestris 'MOSERI'
(dwarf Scots pine)

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 ...


	2 - 3m	1.5 - 2.5m	full sun	3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Platycladus 'AUREA NANA'
(oriental arborviatae)

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 suit ...


	1 - 2m	0.5 - 1m	full to partial sun	5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Podocarpus lawrencei 'RED TIP'
(Tasmanian podocarp)

Red Tip is a valued podocarp variety with dark green, glossy needles which emerge deep burgundy red in spring. They are evergreen and only 1-2 cm long. The plant is mound-forming and quite compact yet we recommend midsummer ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.5 - 1m	full sun	6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pseudolarix amabilis
(Golden larch)

Pseudolarix amabilis (syn. Pseudolarix kaempferi)

Pseudolarix is a genus of one species only pseudolarix amabilis - golden larch, formerly also called p. kaempferi after the German naturalist, physician, and botanist Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716). He was a man of many interests, all of which led to Asia (history, ...