Conifers

Narrow upright columnar habit is perfect for narrow sites as a specimen or screen. Little care is needed. Evergreen. Hardy, resists winter burn. Excellent landscape plant.

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 10' - 15'

• Width: 5' - 7'

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Proven Winners

This new and interesting evergreen breaks up the monotony of the landscape. With an attractive tear drop shape, Cheer Drops^® easily transforms any garden from drab to darling. No shaping is needed as it maintains its fun shape naturally. Fresh green foliage remains bright year-round.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun to Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 8 - 18'

• Width: 6 - 8'

Zone: 3

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A large evergreen tree with dense, ascending, lateral branches from the ground up that form a broad pyramidal to conical crown. It varies from the typical white spruce in its denser, more compact habit and slower growth rate. It has a shallow, fiberous, wide spreading root system. The thin bark is ashy gray / brown.

Brown cylindrical cones appear in late July and may persist on the tree into January. It is better adapted than the white spruce. 

Grows best in acidic, moist loams with full sun, but adapts to a variety of conditions including shade, drought, hot and cold. It is flood intolerant and sensitive to soil compaction.

This tree has a slow growth rate at less than 12" per year.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 35' - 45'

• Width: 15' - 20'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Wareana , also known as Siberian Cedar grows to 10' in height and makes a large wide hedge or in a corner spot. This cedar is very hardy and has minimal risk for winter burn.

The exciting and unique Picea pungens ‘Procumbens’ develops into a spreading, undulating ground cover. Performs best in a sunny location. Thrives in the coldest, harshest climates. Outstanding when allowed to wander among and over rocks and stone walls.

Mature Size: 2’H x 10’W

Zone 2

Pinus mugo ‘Mops’ is an excellent dwarf selection that grows into a low, dense dome remaining compact without shearing. The mounding plant has a smooth appearance that comes from many evenly spaced needles growing at a uniform rate on abundant branchlets. During most of the year, ‘Mops’ displays a hint of gray/blue in its green, but during the crisp, cold months of winter, needles take on a warm, golden hue. It’s no wonder this choice is one of our most popular for confined spaces.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 4'

• Width: 4'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Iseli Nursery

Steel blue needles and horizontally layered branches make Picea pungens ‘Lundeby’s Dwarf’ a neat and reliable landscape conifer that becomes wider than tall with age. A rare form of Colorado Blue Spruce, it stays compact and provides an attractive mounding form that stays in scale, even in small urban and suburban gardens. Discovered by Lundeby Nursery in North Dakota, it is useful as part of a foundation planting, as a focal point or in a rock garden or container.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 2'

• Width: 3'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Iseli Nursery

Russian Cypress is a low-spreading evergreen with flat arching branches. It has very graceful foliage resembling arborvitae with a light-green colour. Although, the winter colour in the sun is brownish-purple. Found in the wild in Siberia. This plant must have a well-drained site.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Full Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 1'

• Width: 3' - 5'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Pinus sylvestris ‘Hillside Creeper’ is a classy creeper that spreads out and forms a flat mesa of layered branches that are covered with thick, green needles. The vigorous, hardy pine, lighter green in winter, makes an excellent ground-covering option for banks or walls or tucked in and around boulders. Found as a seedling by Layne Ziegenfus of Hillside Gardens, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

Garden Size: 2’H x 10’W

Intermediate: 6-8″/year

Prostrate

Zone 3

Bluish Green

Conifer

Full Sun

A great fit for the smaller landscape, Pinus strobus ‘Mini Twists’ with its small twisted and curvy needles will create an unusual texture in the garden. A much smaller, dwarf version of the large growing P.s. ‘Contorta’, ‘Mini Twists’ responds well to annual candle pruning which will encourage an even more compact, full-foliaged small tree.

Garden Size: 6’H x 4’W

Dwarf: 3-6″/year

Broad Upright

Zone 3

Bluish

Conifer

Full Sun

For longer needles, a more natural, open look and a consistent habit, the versatile Pinus mugo ‘Palouse’ is perfect for a casual landscape where a larger Mugo Pine is warranted. The robust green selection grows into a bushy, rounded mound, or with annual candle pruning, it can be kept smaller and more refined. A reliable and hardy addition to the sunny mixed border, it also works well as a divider or to fill a corner.

Pinus mugo ‘Palouse’

Winter is the season when Pinus mugo ‘Laarheide’ literally shines in the garden. Throughout the growing season it maintains as a low-key garden element with its medium green needles. As winter approaches, the needles turn color and become an outstanding luminous yellow that brings the winter garden to life. Growing wider than tall, ‘Laarheide’ provides a colorful addition to harsh winter climates.

Pinus mugo ‘Laarheide’

Super hardy with a super form, Prairie Statesman^® will make an elegant statement under some of the harshest conditions. Soft, emerald green foliage, with a hint of silvery blue, adorns this perfectly symmetrical tree. Its columnar habit provides a narrow footprint making it suitable for the home garden as well as large landscapes. Drought tolerant and extremely cold hardy, it is an excellent selection by Dr. Dale Herman, North Dakota State University. Pinus cembra Prairie Statesman^® (‘Herman’)

Garden Size: 12’H x 6’W

Intermediate: 6-10″/year

Narrow Upright

Zone 3

Bluish Green

Conifer

Full Sun

Picea pungens ‘Montgomery’ is an outstanding and industry standard silver-blue spruce that was originally part of the conifers accumulated by dedicated collector, Col. R.H. Montgomery. Prior to selling his Greenwich, Connecticut, estate, he donated his entire collection to the New York Botanical Garden, and this Picea pungens was named to honor him during the dedication of the Montgomery Conifer Collection in May, 1949. The original plant can still be seen there today. The slow-growing, dwarf spruce is globe-shaped when young, but it will eventually form a leader as it matures and develop an upright, broad shape that is wider than tall.

Garden Size: 8’H x 6’W

Dwarf: 3-6″/year

Broad Upright

Zone 2

Blue

Conifer

Full Sun

Very short needles earned Picea pungens ‘Bonny Blue’ its name and fame. The tiny, narrow needles are bright blue and they are closely arranged with an angle that is acute to the stem. Slower growing than the species when young, the tree, selected by Roger Mackiness, Corbett, Oregon, matures into a large formal stature.

B&B  4'-5' tall

Garden Size: 20’H x 15’W

Large: 15+″/year

Broad Upright

Zone 2

Blue

Conifer

Full Sun