Evergreen

 

Full sun -       Partial sun -       Full shadow - 

 

 

Arborvitae:              

  • Nigra – broad pyramid, coarse texture    25’x10’
  • Techny – broad pyramid, dark green, coarse texture     15’x10’
  • Pyramid – narrow pyramid, feathery foliage      25’x5’
  • DeGroots Spire – fine texture, narrow column habit, slow growing       12-15’ x 3’-5’
  • Sunskist – broad pyramid, show growing, yellow color   12’x6’
  • Rheingold – unusual, orange-gold, round to pyramid     4’x4’
  • Woodward Globe – rounded, requires no pruning          4’x4’

 

Cypress:              

  • Filifera – thread branch cypress, mounding habit, green or gold foliage, likes moisture          8’x4’
  • Golden Mop – dwarf form remains gold all year                        3’-6’x3’-6’
  • Vintage Gold – fern like form of Golden Mops                3’-6’x3’-5’
  • Hinoki – slow growing, horizontal sprays of shiny green foliage, moist, well drained   6-8’x3’-4’

 

Upright Junipers:          

  • Canaert – dark green, informal branching          15’-20’x15’
  • Moonglow – silver blue foliage                20’x6’
  • Ketlerri – light green, conical wide shape                       15’-20’x4’-6’

 

Spreading Junipers:          

  • Andorra – green foliage turns plum colored in winter    2’x6’
  • Blue Rug – silver blue       4”x6’
  • Blue Star – slow growing, silvery blue, mounded                        2’x4’
  • Calgary Carpet – soft, lacy green             5’-10’x5’-6’
  • Gold Star-Gold Tip-Old Gold – gold colored evergreen   3’x6’
  • Saybrook Gold – bright gold         30”x4’-6’
  • Procumbens Nana – Japanese cr. garden juniper, light green, mounded           4’-6”x6’
  • Seagreen – mint green foliage, feathery             4’x4’-5’

 

Taxus Yew:                  

      Spreading:

  • Browni – thick       10’x10’
  • Wardi – low          3’x6’
  • Densiformis – nice density           4’x8’

      Upright:

  • Capitata – pyramidal, shear to any size   15’-25’x6’-8’
  • Adams – layery, columnar            15’-18’x6’-8’
  • Hicksi – columnar, dark green     12’x6’

 

Deciduous Conifers:          

  • Bald Cypress – native, pale green ferny foliage, turns red and drops needles in fall, likes wet soils. 50’-70’x20’-30’
  • Dawn Redwood – reddish brown bark     60’x30’
  • American Larch – native, short soft needs, turns yellow in the fall, tolerates moist soil      50’-70’x20’-30’
  • Weeping Japanese Larch – soft bluish green foliage, turns gold in the fall.  Varied HxW
  • Cascade Falls – weeping bald cypress, selected from native species, beautiful fall color, orange, gold and bronze       8’-10’x8’-10’

 

Fir:              

  • Concolor – white fir, native, pyramidal evergreen with blue green fleshy soft needles 2” long

      30’-50’x15’-30’

  • Douglas:          

      Native, soft bluegreen to green foliage, broad upright, attractive cones           40’-80’x 15’-20’

 

Hemlock:                  

     Native, graceful, fern-like foliage, pyramidal, shears well         40’-70’x 25’-35’

     

Pine:              

  • Mugho – can be kept low and mounded or grow naturally         2’-8’ x 6’-8’
  • White – native, soft blue green long needles, large and massive when mature, prefers good drainage                70’x80’ x 20’x35’

 

Spruce:       

  • Alberta        

      Dwarf pyramid, slow growing, light green foliage          5’-10’ x 4’-5’

  • Bird Nest        

      Mounded, flat top, slow growing             3’x6’

  • Colorado Green       

      Native, green color           50’-60’ x 20’-25’

  • Colorado Blue        

      Selected for blue color, fast growing     50’-60’ x 20’-25’

  • Grafted Blue      

      Grafted for uniform blue color, many cultivars available, very slow growing   

  • Norway      

     Fast growing, upright, bright green foliage         60’-70’ x 30’

 

 

Broadleaf Evergreens:              

  • Azalea – evergreen hybrids, acid soil, spring blossoms, holds leaves in the winter, some fall color, yellow to red, North or East with a windbreak    3’ x 3’
  • Cascade – white
  • Boudoir – pink
  • Hino Crimson – red
  • Karens – lavender
  • Deciduous – Exbury – large, flowering, nice fall color, acid soil, North or East with a windbreak     5’-6’ x 5’-6’
    • Pink
    • Yellow
    • Orange
  • Boxwood – Canadian and Korean Wintergreen - hardiest of all boxwoods, can be sheared to any size     4’ x 3’

 

Holly – Evergreen:              

  • Blue Princess – female, cross-pollinate with Prince for red holly berries in fall, acid soil
  • Blue Prince – male, glossy blue-green foliage, can shear to any size     8’-12’ x 8’ mature
  • Inkberry – dark green, glossy leaves, acid soil, blue berries in fall         3’x3’

 

Holly – Deciduous:              

  • Winter Red – native, large bright red fruit, female, ok in wet soils        6’-9’ x 6’-8’
  • Sparkelberry – golden yellow fall color, red berries are persistent, multi-stem        8’-10’ x 6’-8’
  • Southern Gentleman – male to cross-pollinate above females for berries        6’-9’ x 6’-8’

 

Oregon Grape Holly:                  

      Large glossy leaves, yellow flowers, blue fruit, north or east with wind break  3’-5’ x 3’-5’

 

Mountain Laurel:              

      Pink spring flowers, acid soil,  north or east with wind break                 3’-6’ x 3’-6’

 

Northern Bayberry:              

      Native, glossy foliage, bayberry scented leaves, waxy blue berries        5’-12’ x 10’-12’

 

Pyracantha:              

     Fine thorn, orange to red fruit, white flowers                                         8’-12’ x 8’-10’

 

Rhododendron:              

  • Roseum Elegans - lavender pink, acid soil, north or east            with wind break          6’-8’ x 6’-8’
  • PJM – early, lavender pink           4’ x 4’