Add a touch of textured beauty to your landscape with this tough yet soft looking and feeling evergreen that can be used as a spectacular specimen or grouped to form and even showier large hedge or barrier planting. Its foliage is actually small scales arranged in flattened, fan-like fronds that are soft to the touch. It’s bright yellow on the newer, outside foliage and green on the inner, older foliage giving an outstanding color contrast that you’ll find interesting year round. ‘Aurea’ is a tall, pyramidal grower but it’s not overly fast growing as it gradually adds to its height and width each year. Easy to grow and tolerant of all but the wettest soils, plant this selection in full to half day sun. While easy to trim, its natural, untrimmed form is beautiful on its own as long as you offer it the proper amount of landscape room.

Deep green-blue foliage and a stately, weeping form make this plant an ideal specimen in the landscape. Rapid growth and low maintenance make this adaptable Cary Award winner an increasingly popular selection.

A dense, strongly upright form along with long, deep green, soft shiny needles make this evergreen a landscape standout. Easy to grow. Perfect for narrow landscape spots. Makes a beautiful hedge when grouped on a partially shaded border.

This weeping form of Blue Atlas Cedar has striking blue foliage and a cascading, pendulous habit that becomes more spreading as it gets older. Because all of its branches are pendulous, the height this plant attains depends on how tall a leader is trained, meaning each plant is unique with no two growing the same way. The branches sweep, dip and cascade, eventually acting like a groundcover once the branches hit the ground, making for a superb landscape color and texture with whorled bunches of foliage covering the trailing branches. Plant Wheeping Atlas Cedar in a spot where it can spread and cascade to its heart’s desire and plant it in full sun for best results.

It’s singular, it’s colorful, it stately, and, above all, it’s memorable. Blue Atlas Cedar, as it matures, is one of those plants that thrills the horticulturalist as much as the rawest of home gardeners. Its shimmering, deep blue, whorled needles may have something to do with that as they cling tightly in round bunches along stiff, angularly upright branches. These branches form an open, somewhat stiff, wide pyramid of a tree that is formal, yet open looking and very striking. It’s a quick growing specimen that loves full sun, needs wind protection in the northern most reaches of its range, and a lot of room as it will become the plant that will define your landscape.

A hardy, compact boxwood. Its rich glossy green foliage has a lime margin that matures to gold as summer progresses. It holds its color well in summer and winter. This is an excellent addition to formal gardens or can be used as a year-round accent plant in any home landscape. Deer resistant.

Sometimes it’s hard to classify an evergreen as a colorful plant but this outstanding selection will certainly fit the bill. The first thing you’ll notice about this variety is its upwardly curving deep green needles backed so brightly in brilliant white that the plant takes on a unique two-toned look that is more than unusual… it’s stunning! Slow growing at first, ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’ will pick up momentum as it ages adding up to 2′ of growth per year on its way to becoming a tall, narrow specimen that will truly stop traffic. It even sports generous amounts of bright green, upright standing cones that loom above the foliage, adding to its unique look!

Slower growing and compact, this Cary Award winning plant displays soft feeling, deep green needles with two whitish bands on the lower surface and rich, violet-purple cones starting as the plant reaches the 3 to 5′ range. A very interesting specimen!