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Weeping nootka spruce12/15/2023 In direct contrast to the Blue Atlas, the pretty greenish yellow coloring of this weeping evergreen contributes a frothy, light texture to your smaller garden design. Feelin’ Sunny Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara ‘Monkinn’) Soil Type – Well drained, moist, slightly acidic sandy, clay, or loamy soilĬanary Island Pine by Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble / CC BY 2.0 4.They can survive temperatures down to -10☏ when you plant them in clay or sand-based soil, and you want to add pine tree fertilizer in spring and again in mid-summer to encourage growth. At maturity, you’ll get a tree that gets 20 feet wide and 80 feet high, and it grows roughly two feet every year. It can also grow very well in inland, colder climates that have lower humidity levels. It survives in dry, hot climates like deserts fairly well. You’ll get gently sweeping branches with greenish-yellow foliage. Canary Island Pine (Pinus canariensis)Īs the name suggests, this weeping evergreen comes from the Canary Islands, and it’s a stunning pine cultivar. Soil Type – Can survive in most types of soil, but it prefers it to be slightly acidic and well-draining conditions.Ĭallistemon by Dinesh Valke / CC BY-SA 2.0 3.Mature Size – 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. It will need moderate watering, full sun, and a well-drained but moist soil to thrive. When you grow it in containers, you can take it inside during the winter in cooler climates, or it’ll even survive as a houseplant. Ideally, this weeping evergreen will thrive in zones 9 and 10, and you can easily cultivate this short specimen as a shrub in warmer climates. This is a smaller tree that usually gets between three and five feet high at full maturity, and it produces larger red flowers that look like bottlebrushes tucked along the narrow, long leaves and drooping branches. This is technically classified as an evergreen, and it makes a fantastic addition to any landscape design. This weeping evergreen is an Australian native, and it is also called the weeping bottlebrush tree. Soil Type – Although it’ll tolerate a range of soils, it prefers a slightly acidic pH range with a soil that drains well.īlue Atlas Cedar by Jim, the Photographer / CC BY 2.0 2.Mature Size – 10 or 15 feet tall and 3 to 12 feet wide.It grows between 12 and 24 inches each year, and the growth will be closer to two feet a year when it’s planted in a well-draining soil in full sun with a pH of 5.1 to 7.8. It gets between 10 to 15 feet tall by 3 to 12 feet wide at full maturity, and you can stake it to get a taller growth habit or allow it to sprawl out and be shorter. It produces flowering ribbons of greenish-blue foliage that drapes down like Spanish moss from a trunk that bends. This is a very heavily weeping evergreen that has drought-tolerance and zero-maintenance aspects that make it appeal to a range of people. Blue Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’) Using a Weeping Evergreen in Your Landscapingġ.Weeping White Spruce (Picea glauca ‘Pendula’) Weeping White Pine (Pinus strobus ‘Pendula’) Weeping Spruce (Bush Form) (Picea abies ‘Inversa’) Weeping Silver Fir (Abies alba ‘Pendula’) Weeping Norway Spruce (Picea abies ‘Pendula’) Weeping Nootka Cypress (Cupressus Nootkatensis ‘Pendula’) Weeping Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis ‘Pendula’) Weeping Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens ‘The Blues’) Weeping Alaskan Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) Jubilee Nootka Cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Jubilee’) Inversa Norway Spruce (Picea abies ‘Inversa’) Graceful Grace Weeping Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii ‘Graceful Grace’) Gold Mop Cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Golden Mop’) Whatever you choose, we’ve picked out 19 great weeping evergreens for you to consider below. If you have a smaller space, consider a dwarf weeping evergreen. Since they’re evergreen, they’ll keep their foliage all year round, even in harsh winter conditions to add welcome color in the cold winter months. Weeping evergreens are a great choice if you’re trying to get a year-round focal point in your garden due to the drooping habit. Also, many of today’s weeping trees have “pendula” or “pendulum” in their names, and this comes from the Latin work pendula, or to hang down. You can’t propagate weeping evergreens by planting a seed as the pretty drooping growth habit won’t carry through. This weeping habit is usually the result of mutations focused on through selective propagation where you take cuttings of certain species and graft them onto a standard species’ rootstock. The branches on weeping evergreens droop downwards, as you may have gotten from the name, to help create a very graceful profile.
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