Dwarf Alberta Spruce are extremely popular in residential landscapes – maybe too popular. Here’s an easy-to-grow alternative with the same desirable size and habit, plus brighter color. It’s perfect for flanking formal entryways, either in the ground or in large containers.
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.
‘Brownii’ is a dense shrub with glossy green foliage. Keep a smaller form through regular pruning. This is a male variety so it will not produce berry-like fruit.
A gracefully spreading, fine-textured evergreen that is an exceptional choice for landscaping that has dark, forest green foliage on a compact mound. New foliage will emerge in the spring with a light green color. This beautiful variety will not burn in the winter months!
Dense growing yew, spreading much wider, especially in foundation planting. It responds well to pruning.
‘Nana Aurescens’ is a broad-columnar needled evergreen that is a slow-growing cultivar. Needles are spiny with a golden-yellow color in the first year that will transition to a dark green in the second. Resistant to burning in sunny locations.
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!
Thrives in partial to full shade. Feed yearly with an organic fertilizer. Prune after bloom in spring to shape and control size. Deer resistant. Fragrant bloom. Perfect for formal gardens and small hedges in partial to full shade or as a small space evergreen in a dwarf garden.