The softness and beauty of white pine foliage is stunning in this landscape friendly form that is dense and globose. Medium green needles whorled around branches add great texture.

Another introduction of the late Dr. Sydney Waxman of the University of Connecticut, ‘Connecticut Slate’ is a dense, spreading, quicker growing Dwarf White Pine that feautures gray-blue colored needles that make it stand out from the many other varieties on the market currently. The medium length, slate colored needles are tightly packed along the stems giving ‘Connecticut Slate’ a full appearance even though it is not as tightly dwarf as other types. It’s a great plant for a border area, thriving in full sun or partial shade, and it makes a beautiful specimen for a larger foundation area with color and form that is truly memorable.

Straight from the work of the late Dr. Sid Waxman at the University of Connecticut comes this beautiful, compact pine that just begs you to touch and feel it every time you see it. Soft, bluish-green needles are shorter than the needles of the species and are crowded together on tightly bunched stems to create a tight, yet very soft looking rounded mound that only grows about 4″ per year. ‘Blue Shag’ will retain its round form and become a landscape focal point, so be sure to give it enough room to spread and plant it in a sunny site with moist, well-drained soil so that you can enjoy it to its fullest.

Texture and touchability make this durable, slow growing conifer extremely popular. Easy to grow and easy to use, both singly or in groups in the landscape.

There is always some gray area when it comes to figuring the ultimate size of some Mugo Pine but you can always be sure that ‘Slowmound’ will be a dense, compact mound that is perfectly suited for foundation plant groupings and small space gardening. Even its needles are more compact with their 1.5 to 2″ twisting length that give this easy grow, trouble free plant a tight, bristling appearance that is hard to resist.

Each branch is decorated with whorls of soft, long, fragrant needles with a distinctive white strip giving the plant a silvery cast in the landscape. A stunning broad pyramid specimen. Deer resistant. Outstanding specimen that is attractive all year. Easy to grow.

Great color year round marries with outstanding, dense, rounded form to create the ultimate easy care small garden specimen for your landscape. ‘Globosa’ is a slow grower that adds merely 2 to 3″ of growth yearly meaning it will be perfect for brightening up small landscape spaces for years without overpowering them. Its brilliant, electric blue needle color can’t be ignored and its rounded form makes it more regular than ‘Montgomery’ which tends to form a leader and become a widely irregular pyramid as it matures. ‘Globosa’ is an easy care, sun loving plant that will give years of pleasure with little need for your input.

Slow growing with piercing blue colored needles. Branches can be trained upward to any point desired and then will cascade down to ground level and run prostrate along the ground. Easy to grow. Unique and colorful specimen. Tolerates sandy soils. Deer resistant.

If you love Blue Spruce, this is the Blue Spruce you are thinking about! It differs from the species because of its consistent steel blue color and its dense, tight slow growing form and it’s a difference that will take you breath away! You’ll be astounded by the color show it puts on and also by the much smaller footprint it holds in the landscape, a distinct advantage over the species. ‘Fat Albert’ loves full sun and, even though it is smaller and slower growing, it should avoid being planted too close to houses and electrical wiring.

Finally, a seed sourced Blue Spruce that is actually dependably blue!! That’s something worth celebrating and you will once you check out this plant’s pleasing blue needles that stiffly whorl around stiff, ascending branches to create an upright, pyramidal tree that is hard not to admire. ‘Baby Blue’ can be used as a specimen or grown together to create a stunning large hedge or windbreak. ‘Baby Blue’ will thrive in full sun and well-drained soil, just remember to give this big boy some room to grow then stand back and admire the color!