This upright, narrow grower has an irresistible, soft green foliage and a shape that lends itself to tons of landscape functions from hedging to specimen use. Adaptable and easy to grow.
Here’s a round evergreen with some personality! ‘Mr. Bowling Ball™’ has the same form as that old stand by ‘Hetz Midget’, but with lacy, awl-like, juvenile foliage that gives it a whole new look and texture in the landscape. This frilly, globe shaped plant is dead easy to grow and a delight in a foundation planting, on a border, or in any small space that could use a great looking, tolerant plant. ‘Mr. Bowling Ball’™ maintains its great looks without pruning and thrives in full sun.
Dense growing yew, spreading much wider, especially in foundation planting. It responds well to pruning.
Even if you are not a fan of weeping plants, it will be hard to resist ‘Cascade Falls’ just because it is so easy to grow. This plant will tolerate and thrive in hot sun, partial shade, wet soil, drought soil… you name it, and it performs like a trooper. Branches of ‘Cascade Falls’ are pendulous and can be trained to any height or shape, producing a singular weeping, flowing plant that will be a tremendous specimen. Medium green needles align themselves in whorls along these branches, providing great texture and very attractive orangey-brown fall color.
So clean, so perfect looking your customers will think this plants plastic!! Slow-growing when young, speedier as it ages, this pyramidal wonder’s deep green, thick glossy needles will show their beauty in any landscape. Nearly pest and insect-free!
White Pine is one of our area’s standout native evergreen trees. ‘Torulosa’ puts a new twist on this old time favorite with curled, twisted needles that cover the plant and give it a different look and texture that is subtle but readily apparent in the landscape. The needles are soft and carry the same pleasing blue-green tinge that is one of White Pine’s most agreeable characteristics but they corkscrew with 2 or more twists and give the tree and fuller, more fluffy look that the species. Like its regular needled parent, ‘Torulosa’ is a large, rapidly growing tree that performs well in full sun or partial shade so give lots of room and let your neighbors comment about this easy to grow, showy novelty.
A delightful, dense, dwarf selection from the research of Dr. Sid Waxman at the University of Connecticut, ‘Soft Touch’ is a Cary Award recipient for good reason. Its growth habit and slow growth speed make it perfect for small space use while its short, thin, wavy needles, tightly packed on close-knit branches make you want to reach out and touch them. You’ll love this plant’s soft feel and great landscape look and the fact that it is so easy to grow, prospering nicely in any sunny location with moist, well-drained soil
Famous for his groundbreaking work with dwarf White Pines from witch’s brooms, the late Sid Waxman from the University of Connecticut introduced this low, irregular, half-upright spreader with long needled, unruly branches in 1993. This new favorite breaks the mold of many of his dense, tight, inpenetrable selections to give us a more open, highly textured plant that is more relaxed, free-form and airy. This sweet textured beauty is perfect for a large location where it can look its ‘Shaggy Dog’ best, anchoring any sunny, well drained location by growing into a spectacularly different, year round beautiful specimen.
‘Sea Urchin’ may be the ideal Dwarf White Pine for a small space garden because it is one of the slowest, most miniature growing selections available. Incredible deep blue-green color that will thrive in a fully sunny or partial shady area. Along with its beauty, this little wonder is tough, surviving the coldest winters and harshest winds without a problem.
The Weeping Eastern White Pine is a plant that will take on an individual personality depending on the kind of landscape situation in which it is placed. If you are looking for a wide, flowing specimen, this is the plant for you as it only attains the height that you train it to reach. The rest of the branches flow and cascade like a branching waterfall of curving, pendulous branches covered with soft textured, long green needles. It makes an incredible landscape focal point in a place where you can provide it room to move and shine. Weeping White Pine loves full sun and well-drained, moist soils and requires only a little staking artistry on your part to provide years of ooohs and aaahs!