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  • Cryptomeria Yoshino Japanese Cedar

    Cryptomeria japonica 'Yoshino'

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    (23)
    $20968

  • Deodar Cedar Tree

    Cedrus deodara

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    (11)
    $7911

  • Papoose Sitka Spruce

    Picea sitchensis 'Papoose'

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    (2)
    $4246

  • Soft Serve® False Cypress

    Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Dow Whiting'

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    (9)
    $2649

  • Compact Hinoki False Cypress

    Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Compacta'

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    $8604

  • Dawn Redwood

    Metasequoia glyptostroboides

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    $10688

  • Sea Green Juniper

    Juniperus × pfitzeriana 'Sea Green'

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    (1)
    $8475

  • Hicks Yew

    Taxus x media 'Hicksii'

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    (1)
    From $3330

  • Soft Serve® Gold False Cypress

    Chamaecyparis pisifera 'FARROWCGMS'

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    $2649

  • Stonehenge Skinny® Yew

    Taxus x media 'Stonehenge Skinny'

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    $2799

  • Hughes Juniper Bush

    Juniperus horizontalis 'Hughes'

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    $3100

  • Eastern Red Cedar Tree

    Juniperus virginiana

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    (4)
    $5099

  • Twisted Hinoki False Cypress

    Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Torulosa'

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    $8604

  • Mushroom Japanese Cedar

    Cryptomeria japonica 'Mushroom'

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    $9280

  • Black Hills Spruce Tree

    Picea glauca 'Densata' var. densata

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    $4212

  • Emerald Petite™ Arborvitae

    Thuja occidentalis 'Thusid4' PP33,360

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    $9940
  • Montrose Charm White Spruce (Picea glauca 'Montrose Charm'), a tree featuring dense, pyramidal form.

    Montrose Charm White Spruce

    Picea glauca 'Montrose Charm'

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    $4612

  • Techny Arborvitae

    Thuja occidentalis 'Techny'

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    (2)
    $4899
  • Weeping White Spruce Tree (Picea glauca 'Pendula'), a tree featuring evergreen and dense, pyramidal form.

    Weeping White Spruce Tree

    Picea glauca 'Pendula'

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    (2)
    $15218
  • Blue Shag Dwarf White Pine (Pinus strobus 'Blue Shag'), a shrub featuring conical, horizontal form.

    Blue Shag Dwarf White Pine

    Pinus strobus 'Blue Shag'

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    (1)
    $12887

  • Baby Blue® Spruce

    Picea pungens var, glauca 'Baby Blue'

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    (3)
    $3659
  • Wardii Yew Shrub (Taxus × media 'Wardii'), a shrub featuring yellow, white, green flowers and evergreen.

    Wardii Yew Shrub

    Taxus × media 'Wardii'

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    $9674

  • Serbian Spruce Tree

    Picea omorika

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    $4212

  • Shawnee Brave® Bald Cypress

    Taxodium distichum 'Mickelson'

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    $9058

  • White Spruce Tree

    Picea glauca

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    $4612

  • Dwarf Japanese Cedar

    Cryptomeria japonica 'Globosa Nana'

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    (7)
    $9274
  • Lindsey's Skyward™ Baldcypress

    Lindsey's Skyward™ Bald Cypress

    Taxodium distichum 'Skyward'

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    (1)
    $11160

  • Spartan Juniper Tree

    Juniperus chinensis 'Spartan'

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    $4262
  • Everlow Yew (Taxus × media 'Everlow'), a shrub featuring evergreen and pyramidal form.

    Everlow Yew

    Taxus × media 'Everlow'

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    $9540

  • Northern Spire Western Red Cedar

    Thuja plicata ‘Northern Spire’

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    $5306

Conifers

Conifers are cone-bearing evergreens that carry needles or flat scales instead of broad leaves, and most of them hold their color straight through winter. This page gathers every conifer Nature Hills Nursery offers, from creeping junipers that stay ankle high to spruce and pine that grow into full shade trees.

Which conifers survive your winter?

Zone is the first filter, and the range across this page is wide. Arborvitae, creeping juniper, and white spruce hold up in zone 3. Hinoki false cypress and Japanese cedar start at zone 5. Atlas cedar and English yew want zone 6 or warmer. Check the zone range on the plant before anything else. A conifer that is one zone short often looks fine for two years, then browns out in a hard winter.

How much room does it get?

Mature size splits this page in half. Dwarf and miniature forms add an inch or two a year and settle between 1 and 4 feet, which suits a foundation bed, a rock garden, or a container. Full-size conifers add a foot or more a year and want 10 to 20 feet of spread. Measure the bed first, because most conifers will not resprout from bare old wood the way a deciduous shrub does.

Color, shape, and texture

Conifer color runs well past plain green. Blue-green, powder blue, golden yellow, and green with creamy white new growth are all common here, and several arborvitae and false cypress shift to bronze or copper in cold weather. Shape matters as much as color. Columnar forms draw the eye up, globe and bun forms settle a bed down, and weeping forms need a spot where the falling branches read against open sky or a wall.

Sun and drainage

Most conifers on this page want full sun, 6 hours or more, and nearly all of them want soil that drains. Wet feet end more conifers than cold does. If your only open spot stays soggy after rain, choose from the plants listed for partial sun and average moisture rather than forcing a dryland pine into it.

Every conifer here ships with our 45-day Growing & Glowing Guarantee. Start with your zone, then pick a shape.

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