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TAXODIUM - Cypress Zones 4-10 Sun

distichum - Bald Cypress - One of the few deciduous conifers.  A southern native growing to a large pyramid.  Neat, clean, and easy to grow.  Grows 10-15’ tall in ten years.  Awards: Award of Merit & Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.  Recommended by: Ohio Plant Selection Comittee.  Photos & Availability

 TAXUS - Yew

x media Zones 4-8 Sun

‘Dark Green Spreader’ - Dark Green spreader is an excellent evergreen with a spreading compact habit, and forest-green foliage that does not burn in winter.  4-5’ wide in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Densiformis’ - A dense shrub twice as wide as high, this cultivar is fast growing but remains compact.  New growth is an excellent bright green.  4-5’ spread in ten years.  Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.Photos & Availability

‘Hicksii’– Hicks is one of the most popular upright columnar yews.   Hicks generally grows 2 to 3 times taller than wide reaching 8-10’ in ten years.  It may gain width with old age.  Needles are dark green on the top side, lighter green beneath.  Excellent tall hedge.  Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.  ‘Bean Pole’ and ‘Flushing’ are similar but slower growing and occasionally available.Photos & Availability

THUJA - Arborvitae

occidentalis - Eastern Arborvitae Zones 3-8 Sun to part shade

‘Brabant’ - This is a new strong growing arborvitae from Europe.   It tends to develop a central leader, so it resists splitting in heavy snow loads.  Good green color and the most shade tolerant of all arborvitaes.  8’ in ten years; 12-15’ tall in maturity.Photos & Availability

‘Danica’ - Flattened sprays of good green foliage are held erect on this dwarf compact globe.  Smallest of all globe shaped arborvitaes, only 18"x18" in ten years.  One of several new exceptional introductions from Holland.Photos & Availability

‘Degroots Spire’ - The word is out -Degroots Spire may well be the best narrow freestanding column you can plant in your landscape.  Premium new introduction from Iseli Nursery in Oregon, this arborvitae grows into an elegant very narrow column reaching 6’ to 10’ in 10 years.Photos & Availability

‘Emerald' - (syn.  ‘Smaragd') - This Dutch selection is the standard by which others are measured.  Excellent dark green foliage on this narrow conical shrub.  8’ in ten years.  Eventually 10-15’ tall by 3-4’ wide.  Recommended by: Ohio Plant Selection Comittee, United States National Arboretum.  Photos & Availability

‘Filiformis’ - Very unusual golden rope-like leaves droop to the ground.   Forms a slow growing haystack like mound about 3-4’ in ten years.  So unusual in form and foliage that the average gardener will not be able to guess what it is.  A true curiosity, and a valuable landscape element.  Photos & Availability

‘Golden Globe’ - Photos & Availability

‘Holmstrup’ - An excellent narrow tight growing pillar to medium size.   Grows very slowly to about 5-6’ in ten years.  10’ tall ain maturity.  A superlative older Dutch selection.  Recommended by: Ohio Plant Selection Comittee.Photos & Availability

‘Little Champion’ - Little Champion lives up to its name.  This marvelous arborvitae has dark green foliage and grows into a broad globe shape, eventually reaching about 3’x3’ in ten years.  Early growth is fairly strong but it slows considerably after the first few years.  It is a slow growing dwarf form, and bears an abundance of cones at an early age.  Best of all for our northern neighbors, it bears a snow load better than many arborvitae.  Discovered as a chance seedling in Canada in 1935 it was not introduced into commerce until 1955, but its overall good merits have only been widely recognized in modern times.Photos & Availability

‘Pendula’ - Typical leaf on a narrow column of strongly weeping branches.  Discovered in England before 1862, this is an old cultivar, being rediscovered.  Outstanding specimen or accent plant.  Needs staking as a juvenile to develop a central leader.  Will grow 6-8’ in ten years.  Recommended by: Ohio Plant Selection Comittee.Photos & Availability

‘Rheingold’ - Very dwarf globe shaped shrub with soft needles that maintain gold to burnt-orange coloring throughout the year.  3’x3’ in ten years.  Awards: Award of Merit & Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.  Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.  Photos & Availability

‘Sherwood Frost’ - Sherwood Frost is a semi-dwarf arborvitae growing slowly into a tight cone shape.  Its most remarkable feature is its variegated foliage -creamy white layers mixed evenly through the green.   5-6’ tall in ten years.  Small size and unique color make this the ideal compliment to other conifers.Photos & Availability

‘Smaragd’ see ‘Emerald’

‘Sudsworthii’ - An upright tight growing pyramid with a yellow tint to the outside edges throughout the year.  This is a good strong grower that takes full sun and does not burn.  Grows 6-8' in ten years.  Photos & Availability

‘Sunkist’ - This semi-dwarf grows into a broad pyramid with excellent clear yellow foliage.  A slow grower, reaching only 3-4’ in ten years, 5’ to 8’ in old age.  Photos & Availability

‘Wansdyke Silver’ - This dwarf cone is splashed in white variegation.  The variegation is very constant throughout the year.  The plant itself is very slow growing and manageable, making it ideal for the small garden.Photos & Availability

‘Yellow Ribbon’ - This cultivar grows tall and very narrow, and has excellent golden-yellow color all year.  This is another of several fine Dutch selections recently introduced to the U.S.  Grows 6-7’ in ten years.  Matures around 10’ tall by 3’ wide.Photos & Availability
 

orientalis - Oriental Arborvitae Zones 5-11 Sun to part shade
        ‘Aurea Nana' - Berkman's Golden Arborvitae Photos & Availability
        ‘Minima Glauca’ (syn.  ‘Minima’) Minima Glauca is a attractive dwarf globe colored sea-green in the spring and turning a           warm golden brown in the winter.  The semi-juvenile foliage is closely set making a tight compact ball.  2-3’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

plicata - Western Arborvitae Zones 4-8 Sun to part shade

‘Collyers Gold’ - This plant has two very desirable traits.  It is a slow grower, with an upright columnar habit, and the foliage has a light golden yellow color and is very showy in the garden.  Definitely a plant with a future.  6’ tall in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Excelsa’ - This is a fast growing pyramid with excellent green color.   Grows 10’ in ten years -15-20’ or larger over time, so it is ideal for use as a wind break or large hedge, or trimmed to desired size.  Excelsa is an improved western red cedar.  Deer resistant.Photos & Availability

‘Fastigata’ - This is a very narrow columnar form with the branches ascending narrowly.  It has profuse short branches, and makes an excellent exclamation point in the landscape.  It is a semi-dwarf growing 6-8’ in ten years, but it could make a medium to large shrub in time.Photos & Availability

‘Stoneham Gold’ - Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.Photos & Availability

‘Green Giant’ - Green Giant is now considered a hybrid cross between Thuja plicta and Thuja standishii.  The plant grows quickly into a broad pyramid 10’ tall in ten years.  It may reach 30 to 40 feet or more in old age.  It has excellent lustrous green color and takes well to shearing.  Dirr says that this is the same clone sold as ‘Spring Grove’.  This was a chance seedling found in Denmark in 1935, but only now finding it’s way into commerce.  Awards: Gold Medal from Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.Photos & Availability

‘Sunshine’ - Sunshine has more yellow in its color than other selections and it tends to hold that color better than most, even in full sun and in areas with hot summers.  It is a semi-dwarf that grows into a wide cone shape.  The new growth is gracefully pendulous.  10’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Zebrina’ - A large fast grower with yellow variegation on new leaf growth.  Perfect for hedge or specimen.  Grows10’ in ten years.  Matures at 20’ tall or more.  Awards: First Class Certificate & Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural SocietyPhotos & Availability

TSUGA - Hemlock

canadensis - Canadian Hemlock Zones 3-8 Sun to shade

Among the most useful of coniferous evergreens.  Graceful large growing tree, or can be easily pruned as a hedge.   8-10’ in ten years.  Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.

‘Bennett' - Bennet is one of the best low spreading hemlocks.  It grows much broader than tall with arching branches and pendulous tips.  Twigs are borne in fan-like flattened sprays.  Original plant was found in 1920 in a batch supposedly ‘Japanese Hemlock’ seedlings.  A slow growing dwarf hemlock that has proven its worth.   1½’ x 3’ in ten years.  Recommended by: Garden Clubs of America.Photos & Availability

‘Cole’s Prostrate’ - This hemlock will lay flat on the ground like a spreading juniper.  The newest growth droops to expose the branching habit.  It is slow growing and is ideal for creeping across the top of a wall.  An unusual, elegant plant that needs some shade.  2-3’ spd.  in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Everitts Golden’- Everitts Golden was discovered on an exposed slope near Eaton, NH.  It has extremely bright golden needles early in the year with color becoming more of an old gold late in the year.  Some direct sun during the day is needed for the best colors.  The plant grows into a stiff pyrimad but is very slow growing to 4’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Fantana’ - This is a dwarf hemlock that grows in a fountain like fashion.  The branches are spreading and pendulous, and the plant is usually broader than it is tall.  The original plant was found in 1913 in France.  Size and shape make this a useful addition to modern gardens.   3-4’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Gentsch White’ - This plant has become very popular as it has become better known.  An outstanding selection with white tips and a very dwarf growth habit.  2-3’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Golden Splendor’ - Fast grower with a golden color to new growth.  Habit is typical for the species with graceful branches.  Able to withstand sun better than most gold colored hemlocks.   8-10’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Hussi’- Hussi is a small and slow growing but eventually will make a medium sized bush.  It has an irregular upright habit although usually with no central leader.  Very distinctive in the garden with a very twiggy habit and large distinct buds.   A rock garden gem or minature specimen anywhere it is planted.  2-3’ in ten years.Photos & Availability

‘Jeddeloh’ - A graceful low spreader that usually grows from a central depression.  Recommended by: Garden Clubs of America.Photos & Availability

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‘Pendula’ – Unrivaled specimen plant.  Grows as wide or wider than tall with graceful weeping branches.  Fairly slow to develop its potential size, it is more of a medium to large sized shrub of 5-8’ for many years.  Eventually in 25-50 years it is capable of spreading 15 to 20’ or more.  Deserves a prominent location.  Highly prized.  Awards: Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.  Recommended by: United States National Arboretum.Photos & Availability
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