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With so many cultivars of conifer to choose from you are sure to find one to suit your garden perfectly. From ground cover varieties to dwarf and tall ones there is a conifer for every site and each with its own colouring to suit every style of garden. Conifers are mainly evergreen thus providing you with a luscious view even in winter. More information on growing and choosing conifers.

Cedrus Libani atlantica Glauca

This is an attractive, spreading conifer which is ideal for adding a more unusual architectural flare to the garden. It has oblong to ovoid, arching branches which carry flat layers of dark blue-grey needles. It also boasts large, grayish-pink cones that measure up to 15cm long. It is fully hardy and can be grown in any reasonable garden soil.

Italian Cypress - Cupressus sempervirens ‘Totem’

If there is one plant that makes us think of an Italian landscape, this is it: This dignified coniferous tree is the classic cypress. This columnar evergreen conifer can grow to a height of up to 5 m tall. The cones hang at the tips of the branches. The male cones are green and oval whereas the female cones are globular.

Blue Cone Korean Fir - Abies Koreana

Very rewarding slow growing conifer, with glossy green needles, silver-coloured on the underside. Even very young trees are adorned with pretty, violet-blue cones. Extremely elegant, pyramidal growing habit.

Lawson's Cypress 'Columnaris' - Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Lawson's Cypress (Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana 'Columnaris') is perhaps the most famous blue, slender, hedging conifer. It is one of the most decorative varieties and keeps its fine colour in winter. This shrub is very strong and dense with a bush-like habit. Plant 3 per metre.

Juniperus chinensis Stricta' - Dwarf Slow Growing Conifer

Dense, ascending branches of aromatic, soft blue-green leaves, retained all year, and spherical, violet-brown cones. The foliage of this narrowly conical coniferous shrub turns steely-blue in winter. It's an attractive and hardy specimen plant for a sunny or partly shady shrub border, coping well with dry, chalky and sandy soils.

Prostrate Juniper - Juniperus horizontalis 'Wiltonii'

Maintenance Free Lawn!

Prostrate Juniper (Juniperus Horizontalis 'Wiltonii') is the ideal substitute for a lawn as it is an evergreen ground cover. Just imagine - you'll never have to mow the grass and can even be walked on! This evergreen conifer has a dense, trailing growth habit.

Tsuga canadensis Jeddeloh

Dwarf, spreading mound with center of plant forming a unique, depressed funnel shape, often referred to as ''bird's nest.'' If planting a selection of conifers, this is a must for low cover and contrast to taller varieties.

Colorado Spruce 'Lucky Strike' - Shrub - Picea pungens 'Lucky Strike'

Colorado Spruce 'Lucky Strike' - Picea pungens

Colorado Spruce 'Lucky Strike' is an evergreen conifer. This beautiful spruce has a relatively open shape and ascending growth habit. The height of the Colorado Spruce 'Lucky Strike' can reach up to about 120 cm after ten years. Its needles are reddish-green, although there are light green needles at the tips of the new branches. Its big red cones make this evergreen conifer a very striking solitary plant. The Colorado Spruce 'Lucky Strike' is very hardy. It is frost hardy and resistant to wind, even onshore winds.

Thuja occidentalis 'Teddy' - Dwarf Slow Growing Conifer

Neat little round bush of soft green juvenile foliage which turns purple in winter.

Blue Colorado Spruce - Picea pungens 'Glauca Globosa'

Blue Colorado Spruce is an evergreen conifer. It is a slow-growing dwarf spruce with compact habit and an intense blue colour. Originates from the Colorado mountains. This is an ideal subject for the rockery or the front of the border. It looks attractive and unusual in a patio planter. The height of the Blue Colorado Spruce grows to slightly more than one metre, after ten years. Its blue-green needles are stunning. New needles grow at the tips of its branches which have a yellow tint when they are young; this creates a striking contrast.

Thuja occidentalis Rheingold

A neat small conifer, this makes a compact, squat-conical shape with rather stringy textured foliage which, in summer, is brassy-gold. In late spring, the new growth adds pinkish-bronze highlights, especially towards the top of the plant and, in winter, the foliage becomes strongly orange-toned. Its good colour, shape and size make it useful in smaller gardens as a feature plant.

Korean Fir - Abies koreana

The Korean Fir (Abies Koreana) is a very rewarding conifer with glossy, green needles that are silver-coloured on the underside. Even young trees are adorned with pretty, violet-blue cones that grow up to 7 cm long. Extremely elegant, pyramidal growing habit. Highly decorative. Height supplied 30-40 cm.

Microbiota Decussata

This dense prostrate coniferous shrub is extremely hardy - and it should since it hails from Siberia! The lovely green foliage turns bronze in winter.

Juniperus 'Goldcoast' - Dwarf Slow Growing Conifer

Semi-prostrate bush with moderate, compact growth. Good golden colour all year round.

Juniperus squamata 'Loderi'

Amazing dwarf conifer, forming a dense, columnar bush. We recommend it is used in group plantings to create an attractive miniature forest.

Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star' - Dwarf Slow Growing Conifer

Compact bush of exceptional blue colour and with dense healthy foliage. One of the finest dwarf conifers available.

Juniperus squamata 'Blue Carpet'

This conifer is excellent for creating a fast spreading steel-blue mat of dense prickly foliage. It's just superb for ground-cover on flat areas, and is easy to grow in any well-drained soil.

Juniperus communis 'Green Carpet'

Another great ground cover. This bright green, prostrate conifer makes a dense mat which builds slowly with age. Does best in well-drained soil in full sun.

Dwarf Slow Growing Conifers - Collection of 5 Different Plants

One plant of six different, contrasting varieties. Great for planting together in a group as a special feature in your garden.

Conifer Hedging

Conifers make great hedges. With the ability to grow quickly you can produce a tall hedge in a few seasons giving you privacy as well as acting as a wind break sheltering the garden from cold winds. This creates a micro climate in which to grow various plants and exotics.

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